Emotional and Spiritual Care in Disasters is a program of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation for which Rev. Barnes is an authorized instructor. Participants will receive a workbook, handouts and a certificate of completion from the ICISF.

This can be a weekend retreat or two-day event to enhance the skills of clergy, chaplains, and professional or lay pastoral care providers in offering effective emotional and spiritual care. Actual class time is 13 hours.

This training is applicable to the pastoral care needs within local congregations, but is more widely directed toward faith-based responders to community, national, and global disasters.

Non-faith-based providers can orient to the role of spiritual care in conjunction with, and inseparable from, the emotional. Everyone benefits from enhanced understanding, cooperation and appreciation of the mutual interaction and sense of being on the same team.

Participants will learn the role of an emotional/spiritual caregiver and to identify the physical, psychological, emotional, interpersonal and spiritual impact of disasters.

This is training to provide emotional and spiritual care to disaster survivors and relief workers, to assess one's own suitability to provide ESC, and to identify a personal self-care plan for maintaining one's own emotional, physical and spiritual health in the process of helping others.

For an ICISF catalog description of this course click here.