Bakersfield Grief, Crisis & Trauma training course

H. Norman Wright will be teaching a graduate level seminar on Grief, Crisis & Trauma Counseling in the Winter/Spring of 2014. Dr. H. Norman Wright is a Research Professor at Talbot School of Theology where has taught this course on a regular basis.

This seminar is for ministers, counselors, lay counselors, nurses, teachers or anyone interested in developing and increasing their skills in grief and crisis and trauma counseling. This is not a course for credit but you will receive a Certificate of Completion. We do give CEU’s for nurses through Biola University, BRN Provider #CEP 812.

CEU’s are also available for MFT’s and LCSW’s at a $25 additional fee. The provider of this service is H. Norman Wright, MFT #38328, PCE# 5014. This course meets the qualifications for 25 hours of CEU’s, for MFT’s and LCSW’s as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

You’ve seen the disasters and crisis in your community and congregations. I have two questions for you: Do you have a core group of Emotional and Spiritual Caregivers in your church who can give the ongoing ministry that’s needed? Do you feel equipped to help a family through their disaster if someone dies? They need assistance for months and sometimes years.

This is why we are offering this class in Bakersfield beginning in January. Just imagine how you could sustain an ongoing caring ministry if you and several laypeople from your church took this thirty-hour training! Over two hundred have completed this seminar.

The cost is very reasonable. The fee is only $185.00 for thirty hours. Many pay $100 - $150 a day for seminars that they attend. So, the savings are considerable and the training is extensive. Please consider attending along with others.

This class is presented by lecture, live demonstrations, discussion, practice role-playing, video/DVD of experts in the field. There are several textbooks to complete.

In this practical course you will learn:
• To identify the various types of human losses and their impact;
• The distinctions between loss, crisis and trauma;
• The emphasis is a practical hands on “how to respond” approach
• The normalcy and biblical pattern of grief;
• The causes and symptoms of crisis and trauma;
• The steps and approaches to help others recover from a loss, crisis or trauma;
• To implement a program of prevention and recovery from disasters;
• How to develop a spiritual and emotional caregivers ministry in the local congregation

Conveniently Scheduled for you on Wednesday mornings in Bakersfield from 8:19-12:30 on: January 15, 29; February 12, 26; March 12, 26; April 9, 2013