Training & Outreach

“How you stand here is important. How you listen for the next thing to happen. How you breathe…”

~ William Stafford, from his poem “Being a Person”

Events & Upcoming Webinars

Programs

We work directly with communities that have experienced the trauma and heartbreak of war, armed conflict, natural disasters, and human rights violations. We develop and implement culturally sensitive trauma recovery, resiliency, and leadership training curricula for mental health counselors, humanitarian aid/health workers, first responders, community leaders, and school systems in communities suffering from psychological trauma.

Our mindfulness-based, compassion-focused, neuroscience-informed integrative training protocols are designed in collaboration with our “partners on the ground” locally, nationally, and internationally to intervene on the risk of multi-generational trauma, enabling sustainability for individuals, families, and communities.

Our online trauma education series, currently under development, will showcase the building blocks of our protocol, grounded in the most current neuroscience research to help caregivers best understand, treat and prevent Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and build resiliency.

Our documentary film series, Tibetan Stories, helps us to raise global awareness about the many faces of the refugee experience and to honor the suffering and resilience of ordinary people who, facing great hardship, have found it necessary to flee their homeland in the hope of building a better life.

Our advocacy initiatives, at the intersection of mental health and human rights, exist to support the compassionate awareness, treatment, and prevention of Post Traumatic Stress in wounded communities vulnerable to multi-generational trauma, helping to ensure a more secure and sustainable future.

Schedule a Conversation

We begin by being “in conversation.” We meet via Skype, phone, or in person with key members of your team to explore your existing resources and strategies for working with stress and psychological trauma. We listen. We ask questions. We gain an understanding of your needs, your strengths, and your vulnerabilities. We then develop unique training for your organization or group. The possibilities may range in scope from a simple day-long workshop format to a more far-reaching multi-faceted approach.

Some organizations may elect to work primarily with our online educational series currently in development. In all of our training programs, we tailor the program to the specific needs of your community. We honor the existing culturally based resiliency strategies that are already in place. We deeply believe that the training program and process is a collaborative learning experience.

We would love to work with you.

Schedule A Conversation

Ongoing Consultation

After our initial contact and assessment, we develop a curriculum and implement a pilot training program to meet the needs of your community. After implementing the training program, we offer the option of remaining available in an ongoing consultancy capacity. Through our ongoing consultation program, your organization will have access to our clinical team for case consultation, ongoing integrative mental health education, and advanced training as needed.

  Contact Us To Learn More

 

In-service Training

The building blocks of our curricula better equip our partners to understand, treat and prevent psychological trauma and post-traumatic stress. We teach a comprehensive understanding of the mind/body/brain, providing a new paradigm in the face of trauma, accessible to any level of educational training. We adapt each training to the unique cultural framework of healing within the community. For example, one of our global programs, the Dukar Project developed for the Tibetan Health Ministry in exile, integrates Buddhist contemplative practice, Tibetan traditional medicine, Western neuroscience, and community-based psycho-social support. We offer additional resiliency and healing resources to strategies already in place within the given culture or community.

Our training focuses on teaching simple, effective skills and strategies for self-regulation and neural integration through mindfulness-based, compassion-focused intervention essential during and in the aftermath of a crisis. We co-create an in-service training for your organization or community and then offer ongoing consultation as a supportive follow-up to ensure quality implementation. We invite you to look at our listed programs, the Dukar Project and the Community Response Network. You can review the materials and together we can discuss how we might best serve your training needs.

  Contact Us To Learn More

Care for the Care-giver

Research points to the importance of “caring for the care-giver” in order to prevent burnout or what has become known as secondary traumatic stress or STS. Our mission includes the support of humanitarian aid workers, health workers, teachers, counselors, community leaders, and all of those who compassionately work on the front lines.

Cutting-edge neuroscience research suggests that the intentional cultivation of compassion skills ( CCARE ), strategies for self-regulation ( SSR ), therapeutic writing and contemplative-based resiliency training ( CBRT ) prevent the risk of burn-out for those working in the trauma field. We incorporate these and other pathways to resilience in our Care for the Care-Giver Program. Our faculty is certified to teach the compassion cultivation training program developed by The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University.

  Contact Us To Learn More

Trauma Education Series

Our online trauma education series, currently under development, will showcase the building blocks of our protocol, grounded in the most current neuroscience research, to help caregivers best understand, treat and prevent Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. Having a video training archive will allow care-givers to review and share important trauma education with those in the field and those facing adversity locally, nationally, and globally. Our intention is to translate the series into a variety of languages, to meet global needs.

  Contact Us To Learn More

Advocacy

We create initiatives at the intersection of international human rights and mental health. One such initiative is our Refugee Rights Initiative which focuses on the legal and moral responsibility of countries of refuge and or asylum to provide PTSS screening and simple calming strategies for incoming refugees, particularly children or those who have endured the prolonged stress of religious, ethnic and political persecution or torture to intervene on the risk of multi-generational trauma.

This initiative is an integral part of our larger trauma prevention campaign, strengthening resiliency against the debilitating and long-lasting impacts of unresolved trauma in refugee communities globally.

Stay tuned for our upcoming Refugee Rights Initiative Petition and please share it throughout your network. We are hoping to get 1,000,000 signatures! Be part of the Change!


David Edwards, Ph.D., Professor of International Relations at the University of Texas at Austin welcomes Tsering Choedup, ICMHHR Fellow, to discuss Tibetan refugee conditions and human rights.

PUBLIC EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN COMMUNITY PSYCHOANALYSIS

Language: English/Ukrainian live parallel translation
For Info in Ukrainian: See https://icmhhr.org/ukrainian-information
Registration: chukhriiinna@gmail.com
Time: 8:00-9:45 am PST, 9:00-10:45 am MST, 11 am-12:45 pm EST, 5–6:45 pm CET, 6-7:45 pm EET
Video Conference ID: https://zoom.us/j/5708513799  

Luminary Lecture Series

1. 11 September 2023 – Contemplative-Based Trauma and Resilience Training – Gaea Logan, LPC-S, CGP, AGPA- Fellow
2.  14 October 2023 – Social Dreaming Matrix: A Group Process Method for Communal Trauma – George Bermudez, Ph.D.
3. 18 November 2023 – Addiction and Trauma from an Intersubjective Psychoanalytic Lens – Darren Haber, Psy.D.
4. 13 January 2024 – Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy: Clinical Considerations – Will Van Derveer, M.D.
5. 17 February 2024 – Combat and Human Existence – Russell Carr, M.D.
6. 9 March 2024 – Communal Trauma: We Don’t Speak of Fear – Regine Scholz, PhD
7. 20 April 2024 – Migration Trauma: The loss of community, home and family – Catherina Mela, Ph.D.
8. 18 May 2024 – A Psychedelic  Revolution in the Treatment of PTSD – Rick Doblin, PhD
9. 15 June 2024 – Communal Resilience – Rakesh Jain, M.D.

IITS Spring Semester – 2024

For more information see English or Ukrainian syllabi.

1. Introduction to Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Trauma – Will Van Derveer, MD, Gaea Logan, LPC, Gil Spielberg, PhD  (See English syllabus) (See Ukrainian syllabus)

2. Combat Trauma: Individual and Group Treatment – Russ Carr, M.D., Gaea Logan, LPC, CGP, Gil Spielberg, PhD  (See English syllabus) (See Ukrainian syllabus)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

A Psychiatrist Returns from War - A powerful blog from Russell Carr, MD, one of our lead faculty

Encountering Grief - A 10-Minute Guided Meditation with Roshi Joan Halifax

Voice of America Podcast -  Encore Interview 9/22/22 with Founder/Director Gaea Logan on "Changing the Brain - Resilience in Times of Catastrophic Stress"

DONATE

Help Us Heal Wounded Communities

Join us by making a charitable tax-exempt donation today!  Every donation, no matter the size, helps us provide expert trauma training, education and resources to mental health clinicians facing communal trauma, to better restore families and communities to dignity, capacity and resilience. Online donations under $3000 are processed by PayPal. A PayPal account is not required. Recurring donations may be cancelled at any time. If you would like to make a larger financial contribution, an in-kind donation, or become a supporter in other ways, please reach out via our contact form and let's find a time to speak together. It's all about partnership! 

Donate Now