-Andy Himes, producer, Voices in Wartime

We at Veteran’s Heart Georgia are seeking to identify healing professionals and clergy who are devoted to helping heal our Veterans and their families. Very special people will answer this call. There must be a willingness to “sit in the fire” with people who are suffering that may be beyond what many of us are accustomed to. Not everyone can do this work. Training and experience in trauma work is desirable, and willingness to learn about combat stress injury (PTSD) is very important.  

We are especially interested in hearing from people trained and experienced in working with children and adolescents, as we move to meet the needs of couples and families.  Eventually we will be looking for group leaders and workshop leaders/trainers and psychoeducation teachers.

 Veteran’s Heart Georgia is committed to enhancing the skills of healing professionals and in 2008 and 2009, we sponsored and  created training workshops.  The last of these for 2009, titled “Our Turn To Serve: Ethical Issues, Community Transitions, War-related PTSD and Justice”, is December 4. See the homepage for the link to more information and registration.

 On January 29, 2010, Edward Tick will join us for a full day, inspiring all of us in our participation as citizens and professionals in healing and bring our veterans all the way home.

February 25-28 is the Soldiers Heart Veterans Healing Retreat led by Ed Tick, in Dahlonega. Complete details will be available soon!

Other resources to augment the professional’s knowledge base include:

The Coming Home Project, www.ComingHomeProject.net, has a Training Library with excellent video presentations. We highly recommend the series by John Briere, and the program on Military Culture. The recent program, “Working With Children in Military Families” will be available online soon.

We periodically send email announcements concerning continuing education. Click on Join Us on the homepage,  and provide your contact information to be included in future emailings.

 Many professionals will be needed to carry out our mission of healing the wounds of war. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN EXPLORING YOUR PLACE IN THIS HEALING WORK, PLEASE CONTACT US, JOIN US.

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I held out my hands & asked where I could help & somebody grabbed me & pointed me towards the future & said, You’ve got your work cut out for you & I said, isn’t there anything easier? & he laughed & said you could dig around in the past but it’s just busywork & that made perfect sense so I shrugged & started right where I was, along with everyone else

-Brian Andreas, www.storypeople.com

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