2022 Webinar Series: Healing Trauma Narratives in Indigenous Populations: Forgiveness as Essential to Faith, Hope, and Charity

This webinar will present data on multigenerational trauma and its ramifications from an indigenous perspective and highlight forgiveness as an essential tool for healing. Psychological methods for healing multigenerational trauma wounds will be discussed. Faith and spirituality are important coping mechanisms for many people, and they are increasingly recognized as aspects of people’s identity and diversity. Therefore, forgiveness- and virtue-based methods of healing multigenerational trauma wounds will be presented.

Learning Objectives:

• Summarize the psychology of forgiveness and its related data as applied to multigenerational trauma wounds.
• Describe the ways in which Catholic-Christian and psychological practices of forgiveness overlap, and list their ramifications for wellbeing. 
• Identify one or more psychology-based forgiveness practices with the potential to help heal multigenerational trauma wounds.
• Explain two steps for spiritual and psychological healing of multigenerational trauma wounds using forgiveness methodologies.

Target Audience: Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, MFTs, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, Missionaries, Evangelists, Pastoral Counselors, Coaches, Spiritual Directors

Level of Content: Intermediate

This program does not qualify for NBCC credits
This program does not qualify for APA credits.