EFN is inviting EFN members, church leaders, volunteers and anyone involved in the response to the Ukraine crisis to come and learn practical ways to find respite while caring for people in a crisis. The Webinar will delve into questions such as How can we find rest for our bodies and refreshment for our souls as we serve people in crisis? How do we keep caring when it gets hard? And how do we equip ourselves and our volunteers to serve well for the long term?
Please forward this invitation to the people in your networks that would benefit from this training.
- This webinar will take place on the 12th of April at 19:00 – 20:30 CET.
- To register click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9616492466925/WN_se-OTnAnSxKhGARvE7wHZA
On this call:
Marion Knell. Having been part of the leadership teams of Member Care at European and Global level for a number of years, Marion instituted an MA in the subject at Redcliffe College. She now consults with Refugee Highway Partnership on Care for Refugees and Refugee workers and leads trauma response for the EEA. Marion has developed courses for churches on working with Traumatised refugees and Sustaining Refugee Workers. She is an international speaker on Staff Care and works with an international relocation company as an intercultural trainer both pre-and post-assignment. She has written two books, “Families on the Move” and “Burn-up or Splashdown – the survival guide to re-entry”.
Sue Austen is the director and founder of Kukosha, an indigenous organization in Zimbabwe that works with foster and kinship carers as well as adoptive families. She is an internationally accredited trainer for the National Children at Risk Training (NCART) and is involved in training locally and regionally. Sue is a founding member of Zimbabwe Without Orphans and sits on several boards of organisations involved in child protection, advocacy, anti-trafficking, and girl child issues. Her desire is to see the local church to take its place in leading the nation to care well for its vulnerable children. Sue is an adoptive, foster, and biological mum to six sons and two daughters; and she lives with her family in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Gerard McNamara is an ordained minister, a qualified psychiatric nurse, and a certified master teacher in Hungary. He has past experience in counseling PTSD sufferers in Ukraine, not only with soldiers who have returned from serving at the eastern front, but also with those who have lost a son, husband, or father. At the request of the pastoral association in Pécs, Hungary he has developed a four-part training module that focuses on the history of PTSD, recognizing and understanding the signs and symptoms of PTSD, dealing with specific mental health issues related to PTSD, and finally care and self-care.
Nancy Writebol, CNA. Nancy and her husband David have been missionaries with SIM in Liberia since 2013. Nancy was one of the first Americans to become infected with the Ebola virus in July 2014. After her recovery, Nancy began meeting with Ebola survivors prior to their medical appointments and invited them to become a part of healing groups to process the trauma they had experienced. Through Nancy’s work alongside leaders from the Evangelical Churches of Liberia (ECOL), many others have been trained to lead Trauma Healing throughout Liberia and West Africa. Throughout the year, Trauma Healing groups are led in churches, and are attended by survivors and those affected by wars, Ebola, abuse and various other types of trauma. In 2019 Nancy began serving SIM as the Global Trauma Healing Coordinator, and she represents SIM as an Alliance Member of Trauma Healing.
Sarah Scott Webb. Sarah co-leads “For Freedom”, SIM International’s global anti-trafficking ministry, and has been involved in anti-trafficking work since 2005. At “For Freedom”, she is developing an integrated prevention approach to human trafficking, helping missions workers include protective anti-trafficking measures into their existing ministry work. Sarah has a Post Grad Diploma in Applied Theology, focusing on theological issues surrounding modern day slavery, and a Masters in International Relations, specialising in the legal, cultural and gender issues surrounding human trafficking.
Shannon Alley. Shannon Alley is a marginal mission catalyst with ReachGlobal’s Europe division. She serves the Church as a disciple-maker among hidden and isolated households, including poor, refugees, orphans, and widows. Shannon has been an EFN member since 2014 and most recently served in Bucharest helping build a team for whole-person, whole-community mission that glorifies God by multiplying transformational churches among all people. ReachGlobal responds to crisis by strengthening local church ministry capacity, mainly as we invest in healthy relationships based on trust and shared values. She has a graduate degree and background in Public Health, including planning responsibilities during disasters. Shannon is also a certified Biblical counsellor.
Your moderator, Caroline Hattersley MEd MIoD. Caro is the Director of women@thewell, a women-only service dedicated to supporting women to exit from a life entangled in the sex trade. Prior to joining women@thewell. She is a member of the Institute of Directors, the UK Psychological Trauma Society and the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Caroline has over 25 years of experience working in a wide range of settings with vulnerable and marginalised groups and communities, with children, young people and adults. Originally training in Youth and Community Work, and then Counselling and Psychotherapy she has worked with the British Red Cross, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, UNMiK and the National Autistic Society. She is a recognised expert on safeguarding, sexual exploitation and violence, trauma, and autism. She has a particular interest in, and writes and speaks regularly on Sexual exploitation, women’s issues, autism, complex trauma, specialist safeguarding, liminality, self-harm and suicide.
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