Professional Training for those who help sexual abuse and trauma survivors
The darkness of hidden sexual sin has been destroying lives since the beginning of time. The first accounting of sexual abuse and exploitation in the Bible is in Genesis 34 in the story of Dinah. We have the case of Bathsheba raped by King David, his daughter Tamar raped by her half-brother, an unnamed concubine in Judges 19, and the Samaritan Woman– All stories of women sexually abused and exploited. The crimes have not changed. The perpetrator’s motives have not changed. The victim response has not changed, and the overall approach to sexual sin and caring for those impacted by it has not really changed. Hidden sexual sin unaddressed destroys people.
illuminating the issue and rewriting this narrative is critical in our culture.
How do we reconnect people impacted by sexual abuse and exploitation with Hope? First, we have to connect them with the God of the Bible. We can then help them discover who they were created to be and how they can interact with their world despite the sexual violence they have endured. Every business, church, organization, school, and community has sexual abuse survivors within their midst. Would you like to offer Hope and healing to the hurting victims among you? An Illuminate training program can make a difference in the lives of people impacted by sexual abuse and exploitation. Using personal stories and practical tools, together, we can help illuminate the issue and shine a light on the impact of sexual abuse and exploitation.
“That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.”
Philippians 2:15-16
Professional Master-level training programs from a subject matter expert are eligible for Continuing Professional Education. Illuminate offers leadership training, best practices program development, and practical interactive case study training. Professional training can be presented in a simple one-hour lunch and learn session, a half-day seminar, or a full or multi-day conference.
Any Illuminate topic can be customized for your group or organization. Illuminate training programs are available for:
- Church leaders & staff
- Mental Health Practitioners
- Seminary and college students
- High school & college-age students
- Adult women of all ages
- Sexual abuse & exploitation survivors
- Employee health & wellness programs
- Sexual abuse & exploitation perpetrators, inmates
- Community organizations
- Crisis Response Teams
- Law Enforcement
- Medical Personnel
Illuminate unapologetically follows Biblical principles for training and healing for those impacted by sexual abuse and exploitation. So, Illuminate is a Christian faith-based organization. Fully respecting the need for division between church and life in some cases, many of the programs designed for faith-based settings are also adapted to fit into universities, public schools, secular organizations, and corporate settings.
If you are looking for a professional sexual abuse program, contact Trish to see how an Illuminate training program can be adapted to best meet the needs of your audience.
FEATURED TRAINING
Unbinding Hidden Wounds: A Holistic Response to Sexual Abuse for Helping Professionals
Therapists, counselors, coaches, and peer facilitators encounter people impacted by sexual abuse and exploitation daily, but may lack life experience, awareness, or specific training to understand sexual abuse, exploitation, and sexual trauma victims. This workshop for Christian helping professionals incorporates biblical foundations, holistic approaches, understanding victim profiles, presenting issues, the ripple effect within community, why this issue remains largely hidden, forming care teams, vetting referral sources, developing collaborative processes, and establishing safe environments to avoid secondary trauma.
Practitioners will receive dynamic, practical, and impactful holistic approaches in response to sexual abuse victims and predators within the Body of Christ and outside the church including:
- Reframe a holistic mindset for understanding sexual assault and trauma survivors
- Understand the depth of the problem and hidden nature of sexual abuse to include a biblical and trauma-informed framework
- Identify new strategies and developing best practices for sexual trauma response as helping professionals
Training about sexual brokenness everyone needs to hear.
Illuminate training programs are designed to raise practical awareness and help attendees explore the issue of sexual trauma and take an active part in challenging the narrative surrounding sexual abuse and trauma in Christian culture. All topics can be customized to meet the specific needs of sacred and secular audiences.
To discuss professional CE training opportunities, on the issue of sexual abuse and the imapct of sexual trauma connect with Trish at: trish@illuminatetheissue.org
