Level I Training
- Upcoming STAR Workshops:
- October 27-31, 2008
- February 16-20, 2009
- March 23-27, 2009
- June 8-12, 2009
- September 14-18, 2009
- = Level I
- = Youth STAR
- = Level II
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General Info | Register Online | Which Training Level Should You Take?
STAR is presented in an introductory five-day workshop held in Harrisonburg, Va., at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU). The workshop is taught by the faculty and staff of EMU's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding.
The seminars combine lectures with experiential and interactive activities. Learning happens through presentations, physical activity, creative expression, and interaction with other participants. Bodywork, meditations from different spiritual traditions, and reflection are woven into the experience.
The STAR experience provides the basics about trauma, peacebuilding and restorative justice, with examples of activities and ways to begin to integrate this knowledge into participants' work and communities.
Workshop Topics
- Trauma Overview & Definitions
- Trauma Healing Journey: Strategies Breaking the Cycles of Victimhood/Violence
- Trauma Interventions
- Self-Care for the Caregiver
- Restorative Justice
- Truth, Mercy, Justice, Peace
- Framework for Peacebuilding
General Info
The STAR seminar is intensive and interactive and participants are required to stay for the entire seminar. Since the demand for certain dates may be high, early registration is important.
- The Seminar begins at 8:30 a.m. on Monday and ends at 12 p.m. on Friday (click to view a sample schedule).
- All participants are expected to be open to exploring issues within a multi-cultural, multi-faith group.
Please note there is no public transportation to Harrisonburg from DC Airports. Public transportation in Harrisonburg includes bus and taxi services.
STAR staff reserves the right to ask a participant to withdraw from the seminar early if, based on our experience and judgment, his/her conduct impinges on the emotional safety of the group.
To assist you in finding area accomodations, check out these links:
Maps of Harrisonburg
EMU campus map
EMU and surrounding area
"I cannot tell you the scope of significance STAR has had for me in preparing for the tasks I face leading the CoB. Time and time again, I am drawn back into my experiences in Harrisonburg to rethink a process, a conversation, a hurt, and the manner meetings proceed and find refreshed segments of my soul breaking out to lead in a new way. What a blessing".
-Pastor, Church of the Brethren
