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STAR Training Options
By attending a STAR training, you join a network of persons from over 38 states and 62 countries who believe that by working to heal trauma we can help break cycles of violence.
Level I: STAR Practitioner
Training Required: Attend a Level I STAR training
Level I STAR Training Objectives
- Define types of trauma and recognize the impact on body, mind and spirit
- Understand the relationship between unhealed trauma and cycles of victim-hood and violence that can affect us for generations
- Apply the STAR model, The Trauma Healing Journey: Breaking the Cycles of Violence to individual and group situations
- Use new skills to address trauma and build resilience
- Relate trauma to the justice needs of survivors and offenders and to basic peace-building concepts that help transform conflict and prevent more trauma
- Recognize the risk of compassion fatigue for caregivers and identify prevention strategies
Benefits of being a STAR Practitioner
- In the Level I STAR training, participants will receive the STAR manual and will learn the STAR framework with others from various cultures and disciplines from around the world.
- Training participants may request up to 25 Continuing Education hours if applicable to their profession
- STAR Practitioners are able to practice the STAR skills and implement the framework in their personal and professional life
- STAR Practitioners may sign up to receive email updates of practice and training, as well as the “Peacebuilder” Magazine (with stories of trauma healing, conflict transformation, and restorative justice from around the world)
- May choose to further professional or personal development and become a Level II STAR Associate