Trauma and Healing
Tools and Strategies for Spiritual Companions
25 self-paced sessions, with select Presencia articles, exploring wholistic, trauma-informed spiritual direction and companionship
Over the past few years, SDI has offered in-depth explorations into the many ways trauma manifests in those we companion, as well as in us as spiritual directors, and how to best prepare for these encounters. We’ve learned from many wise and learned guides and practitioners that is imperative to study and ponder the ways trauma affects everyone’s spiritual journeys.
These explorations have revealed the following:
- Recognizing that we have all experienced some form(s) of trauma.
- Acknowledging that we all carry and can act out these traumas, to varying degrees, in our lives.
- Wise spiritual companions understand how trauma operates, both individually. and collectively, and how this manifests in myriad ways.
- Having clarity on what is ours to do as spiritual care providers, when and how to refer to other professionals, but always ready to receive with open hearts the full spiritual stories of those we companion.
- And, that through our wounds, the possibilities of healing, growth, and spiritual maturity can flower within those we companion, and ourselves.
- Some of you may have this clarity already. For others, this may be deeply challenging. Regardless, we must all acknowledge that encountering trauma in our work is unavoidable.
To aid those seeking a deeper understanding of trauma, and aspiring to be better integrated spiritual companions, SDI has collected our offerings on trauma into this single Self-Paced Bundle. This package contains 25 recorded sessions and four articles from Presence Journal – available now and discounted for a limited time.
This Anthology includes the following two SDI courses, plus many Presencia articles on trauma, packaged as a single offering:
A 12-session online course on working with individual and collective trauma and healing as spiritual companions.
A 12-session online course on how to become a more informed, more integrative spiritual care provider, holding listening space for the whole person.
Trauma and the Spiritual Journey by Robert Grant
January 2001 – Issue 07-1
The Effects of Trauma on a Person’s Faith Journey by Rob Culhane
September 2014 – Issue 20-3
Spiritual Direction with Trauma Survivors by Anne Richardson
September 2019 – Issue 25-3
Breakdowns and Breakthroughs by Pat McCabe
September 2022 – Issue 28-3
Ground your practice in spiritual trauma-informed care, to be of service for our times.
Outline of All Twenty-Four Sessions
- Being with People who Have Experienced Trauma (Lucy Abbott Tucker)
- Polyvagal Theory (Shannon Michael Pater)
- Attachment Theory (Shannon Michael Pater)
- Internal Family Systems (Shannon Michael Pater)
- Dynamically Congruent Spiritual Integration Through the Lens of Trauma Psychology and Vajrayana Buddhism - Part 1 (Sunyata Kopriva)
- Dynamically Congruent Spiritual Integration Through the Lens of Trauma Psychology and Vajrayana Buddhism Part 2 (Sunyata Kopriva)
- Body-Led Spiritual Direction (Hailey Mitsui)
- Building a Library of Grounding Practices (Hailey Mitsui)
- Trauma Competencies for Spiritual Care Providers (Allie Kochert)
- Humility and Power Differentials in Spiritual Companionship Relationships (Allie Kochert)
- Working with Trauma, in Courage and Confidence, as a Spiritual Director (Angie Fadel)
- Co-regulation Without Collapse: How to Maintain a Centered, Grounded, Compassionate, Clear Presence in the Face of Emotional Reactivity and Traumatic Activation (Harry Pickens)
- Panel Discussion with Faculty
- Why We Talk About Trauma at SDI (Rev. SeiFu Anil Singh-Molares & Matt Whitney)
- Trauma Healing (Igal Harmelin)
- Neuroplasticity (Harry Pickens)
- Intergenerational Trauma Legacies (Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone)
- Spiritual and Religious Trauma (Laurie Wevers)
- Integrating Polyvagal Theory Practices with Spiritual Companioning (Edgardo Lugo)
- Transference and Counter-Transference, Secondary Trauma (Lucy Abbott Tucker)
- Death and Grief Awareness (Dr. Jamie Eaddy)
- Transcending our Instincts and Cultivating True Insight (Genjo Marinello)
- Behavioral Neuroscience and Spiritual Companionship (Candace Lewis)
- Healing via Horse-Centered, Nature-Based Practice (Beckie Boger)
- Facilitating Healing Relationship with Those Experiencing Trauma (Tara Bedeau)
Spiritual care for the Whole Person
Combined, these offerings would cost over $450. Access them all for a limited time (through July 22) for only $149 or less for SDI Members ($199 for non-Members).
SDI seeks to support our members in growing their practices, so as to achieve financial sustainability, and have confidence that their deep listening work is providing a strong service to the world. We are happy to offer this anthology course to our community at this discounted price.
Self-Paced Course - All Sessions Available Immediately
WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?
Anyone with an interest in Ignatian Spirituality will find nourishment, challenge, and enjoyment in this series! You do not need to be a spiritual director or companion, or a teacher of the Spiritual Exercises, to benefit from this resonant offering, which is suitable for both beginners and advanced practitioners.
The Benefits of an SDI Course
Reputable
SDI is the largest and oldest network of spiritual companions in the world. For 30 years we have been creating and curating educational offerings for spiritual companions across religious traditions, and we have our finger on the pulse of the spiritual companionship movement in the US and beyond.
Faculty
Our instructors are the best in the field. Our courses include some of the most renowned and sought-after spiritual teachers in the field of spiritual companionship.
Affordable
We are committed to making our courses widely available and accessible. We are keeping the course tuition low and have a generous number of scholarships to give out. We strongly encourage any for whom the cost is a challenge to apply for a scholarship.
Convenient
Watch the lessons when you can, complete the course at your own pace. Our online learning platform is easy to use, and once you purchase you'll find the entire Course and lessons available under your profile. Our Membership Services team is easy to contact and readily available to assist you with questions.
Experiential
Life learning, not book learning. Experiential, contemplative, spiritual. We want to open a gateway to understanding and connection. We’d rather companion you to an insight than impress you with a list of facts. Because most of our audience are spiritual directors and companions – including chaplains, life coaches and others who offer spiritual care -, we focus on the practical and care-giving side of the equation.
Welcoming
This introductory level course is open to all! There are no prerequisites and no required readings. Each session includes self-contained video content, and often accompanied by workbooks and worksheets you can print and fill out on your own. It's easy to experiment and try out some of the techniques taught in the course.
Credits
40 CEU credits available upon completing all sessions.
FEATURING
Shannon Michael Pater
Shannon Michael Pater, M.A.R., M.Div., Psy.D., E-RYT 500, is a trauma-informed spiritual director and restorative yoga teacher in private practice for more than 15 years. In 2020 he suddenly became an international COVID refugee while traveling in India on a long pilgrimage. For 21 months he took refuge in McLeod Ganj, a small village in the Himalayas, the home-in-exile of H.H. the Dalai Lama. While there, he was rescued from near-total isolation by the companionship of street dogs.
Informed by ancient Wisdom Traditions and modern neuroscience, he offers individual and group spiritual direction, supervision and consultation, and an Apprenticeship in a Trauma-Informed Scope of Practice. His soul is deeply nourished by the poetry of Mary Oliver and he practices Miksang, a Tibetan form of contemplative photography. For more about him and his practice: http://www.noticethejourney.com.
Sunyata Kopriva
Sunyata Kopriva Sunyata Kopriva (they/them) MSW, RYT, LCSW was a New Contemplative with Spiritual Directors International from 2019-2021. They are a psychotherapist, artist, and researcher specializing in culturally congruent care for complex trauma, and in 2019 they established their own private therapy practice, Healers Hive. They guide people in integrating multifaceted experiences, internal and external, over time, so that they can reach new levels of beingness in this fast-paced and challenging time in the world. As a dedicated student and teacher of Vajrayana Buddhism and yoga for over two decades, they blend wisdom from many traditional and modern sources to support people at different points in their integration process. This work is deeply meaningful and personal, and Sunyata has learned to hold peoples’ unique and universal stories with dignity. Currently residing in California on unceded Ohlone land, Sunyata enjoys dancing with the redwoods and laughing with the Pacific.
Allie Kochert
Allie Kochert, MA, LPC, CSD holds space for others to grow into their resiliency, authenticity, and soul’s purpose. As a certified spiritual director, licensed psychotherapist, and resiliency coach, she holds multiple certifications and two decades’ experience supporting folks on the healing journey. She is passionate about trauma-informed care to reclaim resiliency in mind, body, and spirit. She serves seekers at her spiritual direction practice, Root Grow Thrive, where she offers mind-body-soul care and dreamwork for women in ministry and caregiving professions. She is also a psychotherapist in private practice at Rooted Growth Counseling, offering psychotherapy and integrative mental resiliency support for helpers and healers in PA and beyond. In her off time you’ll find her fostering her own resiliency to prevent burnout—by hiking in the Central PA mountains, cooking innovative desserts with her 13 year old daughter, or kicking the soccer ball with her two boys, 10 and 8. You can find her at www.alliekochert.com y www.rootgrowthrive.com.
Hailey Mitsui
Hailey Mitsui is a spiritual director, trained at Hesychia School, who is supporting herself offering spiritual companionship and embodiment coaching. She works with individuals, groups and communities at the intersection of spirituality, identity, justice and healing. She participated in CAC’s Living School, serves as a board member of Mystic Soul, completed a Foundations of Energetic Ecology Reiki Apprenticeship, done Somatic Abolitionist Training with Resmaa Menakem, and apprenticed with Rev. angel Kyodo williams. One of her distinctive approaches is to focus on women, non-binary and trans people as her directees. She says: “As a mixed race, Japanese American, I grew up with my feet in two words but never felt at home anywhere. As the grandchild of survivors of the Japanese American concentration camps, I am acutely aware of social and economic injustice and how life-threatening it can be to live in America with the ‘wrong’ color of skin or the ‘wrong’ shape of eyes.” This deep compassion has led her to be very clear – and very honest – in her invitation to new directees. Learn more: https://www.haileymitsui.com/
Angie Fadel
Angie Fadel has a Master of Spiritual Formation from Portland Seminary University and also received certification from George Fox University. Angie’s specialties include Enneagram, Transformational Life workshops, Jungian Intensive Journaling, and Body, Mind, and Spirit connection. Angie writes curriculum and leads classes around rage, anger and loss (giving permission to feel all our feelings, not just the convenient ones), teaches archery workshops, and hosts a podcast called Soul Care.
Lucy Abbott Tucker
Lucy Abbott Tucker will guide the first session of this Course, grounding us in the importance of trauma-informed spiritual care. She is one of the founders of Spiritual Directors International and she led the task force to write and establish SDI’s official Guía de SDI para un comportamiento ético. for all spiritual directors, regardless of culture or tradition. She has worked in adult formation and the preparation of people for the ministry of spiritual direction for 35 years. Lucy has led in retreats and workshops throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, and Canada.
Harry Pickens
We are pleased to introduce Harry Pickens as a faculty presenter for this course! Harry is an award-winning musician, educator, and life transformation coach. He holds practitioner and trainer certifications in EFT and Spiritual Technology and a Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology from the Flourishing Center. He is the developer of the From StageFright To Standing Ovation™, From Burnout To Bliss™ and Rewire Your Brain For Inner Peace™ Workshops, and creator of Emotional Empowerment For Personal Mastery™, a step-by-step protocol that is designed to help his clients quickly and easily release the pain of the past, fully embrace the miracle of the present moment, and consciously create their best possible future.
Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone
Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, Ph. D., is an author, Jungian psychotherapist, a leader in the international Jewish Renewal Movement, and a renowned Jewish scholar and teacher. Widely known for her groundbreaking work on Kabbalah, depth psychology, and the re-integration of the feminine wisdom tradition within Judaism, Rabbi Tirzah lectures and teaches internationally about spiritual and ancient wisdom practices that are honed to assist us at this critical time in world history. Her latest work, Wounds into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma (Monkfish, 2019) is the recipient of the 2020 Nautilus Book Award Gold in Psychology and the Jewish Women’s Caucus of the Association for Women in Psychology 2020 book award.
Genjo Marinello
Genjo Marinello is a trained psychotherapist, spiritual director, and the Abbot of Chobo-Ji Zen Temple in Seattle. Genjo sees adults, couples and sometimes adolescents, and enjoys working with people who are aware of their own journey of awakening. His work includes traditional talk therapy in line with the thinking of Adler, Jung, Winnicott and Maslow. He has lived the arc of suffering, awakening and maturity that he writes about in the SDI Press Book, Awakening and Maturity for Spiritual Directors and Companions.
Dr. Jamie F. Eaddy-Chism
The Rev. Jamie Eaddy-Chism, DMin, works with people’s healing and well-being, perhaps especially with navigating trauma, loss, and grief. Her work intersects justice, theology, and thanatology, and she incorporates art, music, and movement when providing education and care. She is a 2015 Princeton University Black Theology and Leadership Institute Fellow. She received her Master of Divinity from The Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University, and is a certified trauma professional (CTP). She is a certified thanatologist through The Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC). She founded The Remembering Station, a 501C3 committed to providing resources to those navigating grief, whether finances for funerals or resources for doulas.
Affectionately known as Dr. J, she facilitates sessions on the intersection of Trauma, Black Grief, and White Supremacy throughout the United States and abroad. Dr. Jamie is the author of Getting Naked to Get Free and curator of the “The Ratchet Grief Project™.
Igal Harmelin
Igal Harmelin offers sessions for healing developmental trauma, spiritual direction, and mental health coaching. He conducts meditative attunement workshops for therapists, and is a certified practitioner of the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM).
While Igal’s training as a spiritual director was done in a Jewish context, the principles of this practice are universally applicable to all seekers. Igal’s extensive study of the teachings of the world’s major religions makes him comfortable to sit in direction with followers of all faiths, as well as with those who profess to follow none.
He has taught meditation to thousands of people on four continents and has spent years in extended meditation retreats under a number of spiritual teachers.
Igal is a member of the Spiritual Directors International (SDI) and at present, offers spiritual direction sessions online. Formerly he was part of a team that offered spiritual direction services to rabbinical and cantorial students at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He has translated into Hebrew a number of books on religion and spirituality for Israel’s largest publisher.
He expects to be ordained as a rabbi in the summer of 2024.
He now lives in New York City with his wife, Rabbi Lisa Goldstein.
Edgardo Lugo
Edgardo Lugo is currently serving as the Director of Bereavement at Calvary Hospital where he leads a team of bereavement counselors who offer individual and group counseling to children, adolescent and adults and offer training on grief, mourning and bereavement to education and mental health professionals. Prior to Calvary he served 20 years in community mental health services in New York as a therapist and supervisor. He is a spiritual director and is affiliated with the Ignatian Spirituality in Everyday Life ministry with St. Francis Xavier Church in New York, New York. He was trained in Spiritual Direction in the Center for Spirituality and Justice in Bronx, New York, 1991-1992. He holds an MS in Pastoral Counseling from Iona College, a Masters in Social Work from Fordham University, and is currently completing an MA in Christian Spirituality in Fordham University. He recently presented in SDI’s New Perspectives in Ignatian Spiritual Direction Course.
Candace Lewis
Candace Lewis, former SDI New Contemplative (2018), is an assistant professor with a dual appointment in the School of Life Sciences and Department of Psychology. Her research focuses on the impact of early life social experiences on epigenetic regulation of gene systems involved in mental health; the relationships between peripheral epigenetics and brain structure, function, microbiome composition and behavior; and the potential of psychedelic-assisted therapy to reduce symptoms through psychological healing and epigenetic alterations. Lewis has been funded by the Science Foundation Arizona, Fulbright Association and the National Institutes of Health (specifically, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Program, and the National Institute on Aging).
Tara Bedeau, ESQ., SPHR, M.A.R
The Reverend Tara Bedeau, J.D. is the Founder and Principal of The Alchemical Workshop. Founded in 2009, it supports people seeking to engage LIFE as it is, with disciplined intention, skillful wisdom and conscious awareness – from a place of love & truth and not fear. As a Speaker, Author, Coach, Consultant and Educator, she guides people in identifying what is most life giving, in support of their wholeness and goal attainment.
The Reverend Bedeau draws on three decades of collective experience and education as an U.S. Attorney; Executive Director & Organizational Leader; Life, Wisdom & Executive Coach; Chaplain & Spiritual Director; Mystic, Shaman, Priestess and Minister; and Fellow Seeker.
The integration of her collective areas of expertise — Wellness, Spiritual Care & Psychology; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging & Justice; US Employment Law & Mediation; Leadership & Organizational Development and Change Management — informs The Reverend Bedeau’s Alchemical Approach. Collectively, clients served include emotionally intelligent seekers, leaders, healers, culture shifters and change agents.
During her decades of training, The Reverend Bedeau has traveled and lived throughout the globe, studying and participating in wisdom and wellness communities, practices and traditions. She finds being of service to be the highest professional and vocational call.
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The Reverend Tara Bedeau graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. She received her Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) with a concentration in Public Law from Cornell Law School, and a Masters in Religion (honors earned) & Psychology at Union Theological Seminary, a Columbia University Institution. She has completed certifications in Mediation and Conflict Resolution hosted at the University of California, Berkeley, and in Organizational Development and Change Management. And, she has completed training in Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and U.S. Chaplaincy (Mount Sinai Hospital & UCSF Medical Center). The Reverend Bedeau is an Interfaith/Interspiritual clergy member through The Chaplaincy Institute of Berkeley, California, and sits on the Professional Advisory Group for the UCSF Medical Center Spiritual Care Department.
Beckie Boger
Beckie Boger is certified as an Equine Professional and Practitioner in Natural Lifemanship Trauma-informed Equine Assisted Learning, a trained Spiritual Director, and trained as a Sexual Assault Response Network advocate. She is the President of Divine Equines Horse-centered Soul Care where she offers nature-based/trauma-informed private and group programming to adult trauma survivors.
Laurie Wevers
Laurie Wevers is a Queer Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Spiritual Director based out of the Washington DC surrounding areas. Laurie is licensed to practice therapy in Minnesota, California, Maryland, and Virginia, while seeing spiritual direction clients both nationally and internationally. Laurie is an alum of Richard Rohr’s 2-year Living School program, was a 2023 SDI New Contemplative, and is an aspiring wisdom teacher and retreat leader.
Disclaimer
This course is intended to give spiritual directors tools for working with trauma and potential mental health issues within the context of their profession as spiritual care providers. It is for educational and informational purposes only and is not a replacement for proper certified training in these fields. Nothing offered in this course is to be considered medical or mental health advice for yourself or others. The Faculty and SDI assume no liability or responsibility for any actions or behaviors you or your clients undertake. Please consult your licensed medical and/or mental health professionals before making any changes in your mental or physical health routines. You are responsible for your own health and wellbeing and for staying within the scope of your professional practice.
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