Make an impact on your community by facilitating the process of healing from traumatic experiences.
This certificate is designed for individuals who work in the fields of crisis intervention, counseling, social services, criminal justice, and settings where stakeholders have been affected by specific traumatic experiences. Students will apply concepts around self-respect, reciprocity with self and others, and role-modeling processes at different levels.
Why Choose This Program:
- The series of four restorative practices-informed facilitation courses will equip you with practical techniques to recalibrate difficult situations.
- Experience transparent, affordable tuition with payment plan options and no hidden fees.
- Access a curriculum that bridges emotional insight with practical structure that applies to work and home.
- Practice various facilitation techniques weekly with a live online professional learning community.
What You'll Learn:
- Relational approaches and skills for responding to crisis situations and incidents of harm by applying various facilitation techniques to real-life scenarios,
- Relational frameworks, such as the Relational Care Ladder, to identify unmet needs regarding safety, engagement, and resources,
- How to implement narrative mapping in facilitating conversations as well as how to identify and utilize trauma-informed crisis strategies and intervention methods, and
- An understanding of how neuroscience, harm, and emotional experiences affect relationships.
Program Overview
Requirements
This program requires four courses to complete:
- RP 550 Transforming Relational Harm*
- RP 625 Restorative Practices in Life Space Crisis Intervention
- RP 635 Narrative Inquiry for Empowering Facilitators
- RP 645 Transgenerational Resilience and Community Striving
*For this graduate certificate, students must start by taking RP 550 Transforming Relational Harm. The remaining courses can be taken in any order.
Details
- All courses can be completed within a year, taking one course per term, and be applied toward a Master of Science degree.
- Most program courses are 100% online with a few blended options with courses starting in Fall, Spring, and Summer months. Click here for a full list of course offerings.
- Supported by faculty and fellow students, course assignments help you put your learning into practice.
- Click here for our Transparent Tuition.
