Trauma
Resource was founded in March 2005 by Yon Anjali and Michael Forrest in
response to a request for support in trauma skills following the Tsunami
in December 2004.
Vision
To bring an integrative trauma model that draws upon already proven models
for the healing of trauma to understanding the causes and healing the effects
of traumatisation in individuals and communities.
Who We Are
Yon Anjali is a staff member and tutor at the Karuna Institute which offers
a masters degree in
Core Process Psychotherapy.
She has worked in private practice as a psychotherapist and supervisor for
the past 16 years.
She is a non certified trainer of Non Violent Communication and has trained
groups in these skills for the past four years. Yon originally taught in the
field of education within the primary sector where she had a particular interest
in working with children with learning difficulties. She has a deep interest
in teaching and working with movement practices and is currently engaged in
a training programme for Kum Nye Movement. She is also a trained yoga teacher.
Michael
Forrest is a counsellor and certified trainer with the Centre for Non Violent
Communication. He has worked for Social Services Emergency Duty Team in the
UK supporting children and families
in need, as well as people with mental health issues. Michael has been an
ordained Theravada Buddhist monk living in monasteries of the Thai Forest
Tradition in the UK for over 6 years.
Michael and Yon co-founded a stress management and complementary health centre
in Exeter in 1996.
Vision
To bring an integrative trauma model that draws upon already proven models for the healing of trauma to understanding the causes and healing the effects of traumatisation in individuals and communities.
To support the work of bringing peace and reconciliation in areas affected by conflict.
To direct resources to programs and services that support healing, reconciliation, empowerment
and re-education of individuals and communities, based on values of compassion, respect, self-responsibility, and equality.
Focus
The intention is to identify and support groups of people, organisations, and institutions, who are already actively involved in working in the community with those affected by trauma and conflict, who are open to the Trauma Resource approach, who have a relevant skill base that can be built upon, and existing infrastructure and resources to maintain the continuity of this work.
Through careful assessment of the needs on the ground Trauma Resource works collaboratively
and in harmony with the wishes of the people to build sustainable needs led programs, that respect the unique culture and spirituality of the people being supported.
We value the importance of allowing an organic process to evolve from the ground up while holding an intention to stay open to the emerging process of what is needed as whole, and for this to be supported through ongoing research and evaluation.
Bring awareness of how unresolved trauma unconsciously perpetuates the cycles of violence and oppression in individuals, families and society as a whole.
Where necessary to act as a referral agency for specific skills training, facilitation and mediation.
The focus of the Trauma Resource model is on the psychophysiological understanding of trauma,
and how resolution occurs. This is a process model that recognises the inherently resourced nature of human beings. Through identifying and supporting peo ple to connect to their inner resources they are more able to have a different relationship to their experience and to be more empowered
to make choices that better meets their needs.
We view conflict as an integral part of life and in our trainings we teach ways to meet and learn from conflict to deepen our understanding of ourselves and our relationships to others.
This approach recognises the importance of sharing power through connection and respect, and of learning through modelling and direct experience.
Training and facilitation focuses on experiential learning that fosters reflective ability, self-responsibility, empathic connection and empowerment, as well as providing specific tools and techniques to support this.
There are many resources that we draw upon from sources and practitioners that have been working for many years in the fields of trauma, communication, process work, reconciliation, mediation, and social change.
This project was initiated in March 2005 in response to a request from Sri Lanka for support in working with those affected by the Tsunami. Initially in April 2005 a 2 day trauma awareness workshop was run in Trincomalee for a group of 20 volunteers supporting people in the refugee camps and a 9 day Trauma Resource Foundation workshop was run in March 2006 to a group of
26 counsellors in Batticaloa in Eastern Sri Lanka. Following a request from this group for further support, a follow up 5 day training took place in December 2006. In January 2007 a 2 day Trauma Resource facilitated program was run for 35 people titled Inter Religious Collaboration for Better Understanding and Trust.
The Intention is to provide on going support as needed for existing groups and to continue to identify and support new groups and organisations. A further 5 day training is planned for
April 2007 and we are currently responding to a number of requests from other groups and organisations for support.
Batticaloa December 2006
These workshops took place in Batticaloa to support the Counsellors who are actively engaged in working with people on the East coast affected by the Tsunami and the civil war. The focus of these workshops has been to provide professional training in how to work with the effects of traumatisation, as well as opportunities for personal development.Inter Religious meeting in Galle
On
the 24th and 25th January 2007 35 people from all the four major Religions
in Sri Lanka {Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism } including leading
figures and religious leaders met near Galle in Southern Sri Lanka for a two
day program titled Inter Religious Collaboration for Better Understanding
and Trust. This was initiated by the Ven Holland Sri Devamitta Thera from
the Buddhist community and a facilitated program by Trauma Resource from the
UK, focused on developing a supportive atmosphere of respect and trust, as
well as providing some practical tools so that people could engage in listening
empathically to each other share their stories, to support the process for
healing and reconciliation.
This led to a deepening of connection and trust between participants and a
wish to look at ways to move forward both as a group as well as with in their
respective communities. A number of new initiatives were born out of this
program as well as a willingness to commit to staying in dialogue to create
more opportunities for healing and reconciliation and ongoing exploration
of strategies to encourage further cooperation and collaboration.
Inter religious group
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