Sponsorship Group Preparation: well-being for refugees and sponsors
The Sponsorship Group Preparation event is an opportunity to gather individuals and groups who are in the process of sponsoring a refugee(s). The hope for the day is that through interactive presentations, participants will gain knowledge regarding Syrian history and culture, trauma and settlement services. There will be opportunities to meet others who are sponsoring refugees and to engage the agencies and groups who provide community support.
Workshop
Refugee Trauma 101 Workshop
Where & When
Saturday, 5 December 2015 from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM (EST)
Waterloo Lutheran Seminary – Corner of Bricker Ave. and Albert St.. Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo Campus. Waterloo, ON CA
Reaching The Whole Person
Many groups are meeting the physical needs of people who have had their lives displaced, disrupted, or destroyed by conflicts around the world. The individuals behind More than Bread will endeavor to reach the whole person by equipping helpers with tools required to convey healing, providing direction so that distressed individuals may begin to find the journey back to wholeness – psychological and spiritual well-being.
More Than Bread will also help ‘those that help others’ deal with their own emotional distress and turmoil that they may find themselves wading through unexpectedly. Their own mission to better the world around them jeopardized, by their human limitations against a task so overwhelmingly large.
More Than Bread strives to touch the people who’s world of trauma is filled with helplessness. We attempt to create a domino effect by equipping helpers to convey hope and help to the emotionally hurting people in our world.
