Basic Skills Training in The Community Resiliency Model Training
At Ardmore Baptist Church, Winston-Salem
Friday, July 15, 9 am – 4 pm
Saturday, July 16, 9 am – 4 pm
$250 Registration Fee Snacks and Materials Provided $10 Additional Fee for Lunch
The COMMUNITY RESILIENCY MODEL (CRM) is a groundbreaking wellness initiative that provides a non-stigmatizing perspective on normal human reactions to stress and trauma. The primary focus of this skills-based nervous system stabilization program is to reset the system’s natural balance. The CRM skills help people understand their nervous system and learn to track sensations connected to their own wellbeing, which CRM calls Resilience. With practice, the nervous system begins to return to its normal balance or rhythm (referred to as the Resilient Zone). CRM is both restorative and preventive. Using the wisdom of their own bodies, people experience rapid relief from symptoms accompanied by increased sense of control over future wellness.
Creation of local capacity is a priority wherever CRM is introduced. People are encouraged to pass the skills along to family, friends, and their wider social network. CRM is open source appropriate technology for public health. CRM’s strategy of empowerment focused service delivery equips neighborhood resiliency educators to expand and sustain wellness in a local context.
CRM skills are useful for self-care. They can be taught as a peer-to-peer intervention in a variety of contexts. Clinicians, educators, and frontline helpers responding to stress and trauma can commend CRM skills in medical and counseling centers, classrooms, faith communities, and crisis interventions in the field. Skills can help prevent burnout among these same leaders. CRM is a tremendous resource for individuals coping with chronic stressors such as physical pain and recovery from addiction. A range of marginalized populations that suffer effects of cumulative trauma (e.g. poverty, racism, homophobia), benefit greatly from these tools.
This model is easily learned and accessible regardless of age, culture or educational level. CRM trainers are now being sent to many places across the USA and around the globe.
Most contemporary approaches to emotional/psychological healing are cognitively based. Although these may incorporate mindfulness or relaxation exercises, they focus primarily on changing debilitating beliefs, providing insight, and developing problem-solving strategies. Current neuroscience is clear – the part of the brain responsible for verbal processing and introspection does not function optimally when under stress or after traumatic events. There is an urgent need to incorporate understandings of the biological basis of threat, fear and, more important, of resiliency. CRM skills capture the body’s innate process to expand the sensations associated with resiliency to override the survival-based responses to fear and threat.
A $ 250 fee covers the two days of training, skill practice, materials, and snacks. Feel free to bring your lunch or add an additional $10 for lunch. Payment must accompany registration and indicates agreement to attend the entire training. This modest cost in no way benefits Ardmore Baptist Church, which is providing hospitality, or the Division of FaithHealth Ministries, which is sponsoring the training.
Ardmore Baptist Church is located at 501 Miller Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27103. For questions or additional information contact Robin Danner: by email or call 336-716-4745.
Workshop Leaders – Community Resiliency Model Trainers
Stephanie Citron, PhD, LP, SEP is a licensed clinical psychologist, trainer, and research consultant. She is a senior level trainer for the Trauma Resource Institute in the Community and Trauma Resiliency Models, and is also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Stephanie maintains a private practice in Asheville where she serves adults and adolescents; persons suffering from the effects of trauma; mood disorders; women’s health issues; and couples conflict. Following the devastating natural disasters in Haiti and the Philippines, she taught CRM skills to rescue workers and other frontline leaders in those countries.
Russell Siler-Jones Th.D. is a pastoral counselor in Asheville, director of CareNet/Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s Residency in Psychotherapy and Spirituality, and a Community Resiliency Model trainer. He has been a counselor for over 20 years and has also worked as a pastor, a hospital chaplain, and as a case manager with chronically mentally ill adults. He is a Diplomat in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor, a certified Internal Family Systems Therapist, and a Sensorimotor Psychotherapist.
The WNC Resiliency Collaborative in Affiliation with the Trauma Resource Institute
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REGISTRATION FOR CRM Basic Skills Training July 15 and 16, 2016
Name _______________________________________________________ Email _______________________________
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Please print out and mail form with a check for $250 ($260 includes lunch) made payable to Department of FaithHealth Education to:
Department of FaithHealth Education, Attn: Robin Danner, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Medical Center Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC 27157
☐ I am including an additional $10 that will cover lunch for both days.
☐ I need a vegetarian lunch option.
☐ I agree to attend both days of this training in order to participate in practice groups and receive a certificate of completion.
