Crisis & Trauma Response Training
This training is primarily geared for mission member care personnel or mission executives to understand the dynamics of helping their staff to process a crisis. If you are not already trained and/or working in basic counselling techniques, then we require attendance at a Basic Debriefing Training prior to attending this training.
You will gain an awareness of:
- The bigger picture of crisis intervention and contingency management, planning for crises, etc.
- Individual responses to trauma and stress
- Handouts and information available regarding wider planning and management for organizations facing potential critical events or emergencies
You will gain a basic understanding of:
- What comprises stress
- How stress operates
- Cumulative stress
- Traumatic stress
- The process of grief
- How the key scriptures relate to one’s experiences of loss and grief
You will gain a basic knowledge of:
- The definition of stress, trauma, critical incidents, types of crisis, critical incident debriefing
- Classical trauma and loss reactions
- The stages of grief
- Post-traumatic stress (disorder) – international diagnostic criteria from the American Psychiatric Association
- Secondary characteristics of traumatic stress, acute stress syndrome
- Where to find key scriptures with regard to loss, grief, the work of Christ on the cross, and theology of suffering
- Special needs of children in trauma, related to their developmental stage
- Sexual assault, rape, and associated trauma
You will be able to:
- Recognize stress symptoms and traumatic stress symptoms in an individual
- Distribute resource materials and handouts on trauma reactions to client groups appropriately
Identify a critical incident - Recognize or identify secondary symptoms, referral characteristics and DSM IV criteria (from the American Psychiatric Association) and know when to refer appropriately
- Recognize and refer PTSD
- Identify personal skills and limitations
- Apply the scriptural understanding of loss and grief to the practical experience of loss and grief
- Minister to people in loss and grief using the principles of the cross workshop
Costs
Crisis & Trauma Response - 22-27 Feb. 2026, Cape Town, South Africa
Seminar with lodging at Le Rucher
1,100 € per person – All inclusive (5 nights)
Seminar without lodging
770 € per person
Non-refundable registration fee
100 € per person (included in total price)
Seminar with lodging at Le Rucher
1,100 € per person – All inclusive (5 nights)
Seminar without lodging
770 € per person
Non-refundable registration fee
100 € per person (included in total price)
How & When to Pay
Payments Details
If your mission agency prefers to be billed, please fill out the appropriate information on your application form so we can bill them before you arrive.
If you cancel at short notice (less than 30 days before your scheduled debrief), we may ask you to pay 50% if we are unable to fill your place.
How to apply?
Important: The applications below are to attend a training in how to debrief others. If you are looking for an application to attend your own personal debrief, then click here.
Remember, you do no need to pay the non-refundable registration fee until we have confirmed by email that there is space for you.
The next training will be run by Le Rucher trainers in
Cape Town, South Africa
22-27 February 2026
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