The 2023 Mark Kraai Lecture- Healing the Healers: Trauma Informed Self-Care for Clergy

Ideas and concepts that will be discussed:

• Clergy should recognize the impact of secondary trauma, their own triggers and the impact the two can have on ministry.
• Clergy should appreciate how a trauma sensitive theology fuels a trauma informed ministry, providing a strength-based approach for preaching and teaching. This helps clergy and those we serve manage the emotions tied to trauma.
  
• Clergy practices of self-care are integral to effectiveness of ministry.

Click here to download a PDF of Dr. Clifton’s slides.