The Ukrainian people have faced incredible violence, displacement, and grief over the past few years. As a result, the Ukrainian church has found itself reeling, and has sought out ways to strengthen their hope.

Since the start of the war, Word Collective staff have supported the Ukrainian church by providing training on basic, biblically-grounded mental health coping skills. Now, Word Collective has partnered with a Ukrainian Bible school to develop a curriculum that will equip its students to help people address trauma safely, responsibly, and effectively. Throughout the course, students will experience God’s healing for themselves so they can then lead and equip their own communities to begin to seek healing. Students will learn how to:

• Appropriately enter a community
• Gather participants into emotionally healthy groups
• Address trauma in healing groups
• Provide on-going and trauma-informed discipleship
• Develop leaders who experience trauma healing themselves so they can help their own communities experience the same healing

By the end of the course, students will leave not only knowing how to teach these skills to others, but also with a paradigm of addressing trauma that they can integrate into their churches, evangelism, relief efforts, and communities.