The Great Lakes MHTTC offers this training for behavioral health providers in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, and WI. This training is offered in response to a need identified by Region 5 stakeholders.
STAR-Lite is an evidence-based, research and practice-supported professional development and community education training integrating neuropsychology, trauma healing and resilience, restorative justice, nonviolent conflict transformation, and broadly defined spirituality to become trauma-informed, resilience-oriented, and restorative justice-focused for cultural competence, racial justice, healing, and equity. This training is based on the 5-day Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) Training. While inclusive of the traditional psychiatric/medical model understanding of trauma, this training is designed for those seeking to understand and address psychological trauma from a broader bio-psycho-social-racial-spiritual-cultural perspective.
STAR Lite teaches trainees the language of the complete spectrum of psychological trauma for building authentic just peace within trainees’ spheres of influence.
CE: For an additional $35/trainee, Minnesota Peacebuilding Leadership Institute will provide 6.5 hours of professional continuing education/training completion certificate.
Enrollment: This training is for a maximum of 60 people.
1. Learn the complete intersectional spectrum of individual and collective trauma that affects diverse populations and the common responses to psychological trauma.
2. Learn the links between unhealed trauma and the cycles of victimhood and violence experienced by all people.
3. Learn effective trauma awareness, restorative justice, and resilience models and associated practices for cultural competence, racial justice, healing, and equity.
4. Explore ways to apply trauma awareness, restorative justice, and self-care for resilience practices to build just peace within our lives, families, neighborhoods, organizations, and society.
Crixell Shell, MS, Assistant Executive Director, Minnesota Peacebuilding Leadership Institute and Local Coming to the Table (CTTT) Racial Healing Talking Circle Group Leader, is a cisgender, African American woman with a professional legal and technology background. She was in the first Minnesota Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) training cohort in 2010 and, since then she has been an integral part of the development of the STAR Training and CTTT in Minnesota. Crixell facilitates multiple CTTT gatherings each month, and she is on the national CTTT leadership team.
Donna Minter, PhD, Founder and Executive Director of Peacebuilding, is a European-American cisgender woman. She is a licensed psychologist who has practiced pediatric neuropsychology for over 25 years in outpatient and inpatient clinics and educational settings. For over 19 years she has conducted court-ordered mental health evaluations and provided expert court testimony. She is a Certified STAR Trainer and she administers, implements, and conducts trainings and talking circles in Minnesota, throughout the USA, and internationally.
