Spiritual Care WHAT IS IT? WHY DO WE DO IT? HOW YOU CAN GET IN ON IT
Introductions Introduce yourself Why did you choose this class? What do you hope to get from it?
What is the Keystone Disaster Spiritual Care Network? A network of highly trained and credentialed Disaster Spiritual Care responders who are dedicated to providing the highest level of care to those who have experienced a disaster.
What is the Keystone Disaster Spiritual Care Network? A 501(c)(3) organization Mission Statement The Keystone Disaster Spiritual Care Network provides effective spiritual care to those who have experienced natural or human-caused disasters. This care is provided to persons of any religious background as well as those without a religious background. All care will be provided in accordance with the highest standards of disaster spiritual care as outlined in the National Voluntary Organizations Active In Disaster (NVOAD) “Spiritual Care Points of Consensus” and “Spiritual Care Guidelines.” Proselytizing and requiring persons we serve to adhere to any specific religious or spiritual beliefs is strictly and explicitly forbidden.
Introduction About this Training Session One – Introduction ❖ Sunday 6-8 Session Two – Foundations ❖ Monday 9-12 Session Three – Narrative Identity ❖ Monday 1-4 Session Four – Process ❖ 6-8 Monday Session Five – Wrap Up ❖ 9-12 Tuesday
Introduction Spirituality: What is it? Spirituality not the same as religion What does it mean to you?
Introduction What is Disaster Spiritual Care? Two settings Private Shared Sacred texts Symbols Traditions Community
Introduction What is Disaster Spiritual Care? Two settings Public Follow the person into their own spirituality Spirituality does not imply religion Goal: Keep hope alive Prepare for the journey of “Meaning Making”
Introduction Religious Response vs. Spiritual Response Both responses are critical. Yet, they are different.
Introduction What is the Keystone Disaster Spiritual Care Network? Private Response Public Response Focuses on assisting survivors Focuses on the survivor’s using shared religious resources unique spirituality. Follows (symbols, sacred texts, beliefs) them They follow responder Uses the order suggested in a Discovers the order that particular set of beliefs overcomes that survivor’s chaos Particular – shared religion Universal – all have spiritual core Uses the resources of the Draws out the survivor’s shared religion resources Equally Vital
Introduction Naomi Paget
Introduction To assist the survivor to hold Purpose of their life’s door Disaster Spiritual Care open to hope and meaning-making
Introduction The foundation Hope: of all resiliency
Introduction Bringing the disaster into one’s life as something of Meaning-Making : meaning rather than trying to exorcize it from life
Introduction Help the affected person to keep the book open to hope for their lives. Key Goal: Stated another way: Help that person find their own inner resources to believe in life before death.
Introduction National VOAD Points of Consensus
Introduction 8 Things You Should Know About Disaster Spiritual Care 1. It is about Hope Disaster Spiritual Care helps those affected by disaster to draw upon their own emotional and spiritual resources to find the hope necessary for recovery. WISDOM: “Hope is the foundation of resiliency.”
Introduction 8 Things You Should Know About Disaster Spiritual Care 2. It is about spiritual care Disaster Spiritual Care provides care to all persons regardless of religion. When possible and welcomed, the care-giver will facilitate contact with one’s religious community or tradition. WISDOM: “ All persons have a spiritual core even if it is not a part of a religious system.”
Introduction 8 Things You Should Know About Disaster Spiritual Care 3. It does not proselytize Spiritual Care providers recognize that survivors of disaster are often extremely vulnerable and will not abuse this imbalance of power to serve any ends except the survivors’ well-being. WISDOM: “ It is all about recovery, not recruitment.”
Introduction 8 Things You Should Know About Disaster Spiritual Care 4. It is effective throughout disaster’s life-cycle. Survivors often go through “why” questions to “how” questions. ❖ “Why did this happen?” ❖ “How do I go on?” Throughout, these questions have practical levels and deeply spiritual ones. Spiritual care belongs to the entire life-cycle. WISDOM: “Every disaster has a life-cycle and so do its survivors.”
Introduction 8 Things You Should Know About Disaster Spiritual Care 5. It is team-oriented Spiritual care works cooperatively with other responders – especially Behavioral Health providers and local faith-based leaders. Spiritual care providers are trained to detect underlying psychological and emotional conditions which are referred to specialists in those areas. They also recognize that each faith tradition has intricacies which they may not be qualified to interpret. Those intricacies are best addressed by representatives from the survivor’s own faith tradition. WISDOM: “No one is everyone. Anything is too often nothing.”
Introduction 8 Things You Should Know About Disaster Spiritual Care 6. It recognizes the power of stories. Stories can not only knit people together, but can re-knit hope and resiliency within the individual. Spiritual stories (even when not framed in spiritual language) have the power to give shape to individual stories and allow the spiritual provider to accompany survivors on what may well be the most difficult journey of their lives. WISDOM: “The most powerful accompaniment is being with others through their stories.”
Introduction 8 Things You Should Know About Disaster Spiritual Care 7. It is about presence Stories can not only knit people together, but can re-knit hope and resiliency within the individual. Spiritual stories (even when not framed in spiritual language) have the power to give shape to individual stories and allow the spiritual provider to accompany survivors on what may well be the most difficult journey of their lives. WISDOM: “The most powerful accompaniment is being with others through their stories.”
Introduction 8 Things You Should Know About Disaster Spiritual Care 8. It is about being well-trained and committed to common principles. Wanting to help those in distress is common human nature. But, as in other response disciplines, harm can result from untrained response or compromised principles. WISDOMS: “Always know how to ‘do no harm.’” “Wanting to help is eclipsed by knowing how and why.”
Introduction 8 Things You Should Know About Disaster Spiritual Care OVERALL WISDOMS • “God/The Deity (however understood) always precedes all responders to the site of a disaster and is always present after those responders have departed.” • “Spiritual Care providers are the hands, arms, feet and speech of God/The Deity and not of themselves.”
Introduction Great Resources from the National Disaster Interfaiths Network Field Guide: General information on America’s religious landscape and the role religious communities play in the culture and in disaster recovery Primer: An exhaustive resource featuring details on the beliefs and practices of 24 religious communities in the United States http://www.n-din.org/ndin_resources/FieldGuideSet.php
Introduction Incident Command Structure Someone is in charge of each incident. Who it is depends on the scope of the disaster – city, county, state or federal Disaster Spiritual Care responders are a part of this structure and all responders must understand where they belong and to whom they are responsible. ICS 100 and ICS 700 are requirements for credentialing with the Keystone Disaster Spiritual Care Network Under no circumstances may anyone ever self-deploy https://training.fema.gov/ Search for: ics 100 ics 700
Center yourself Center Root yourself in the sacred turf Root Embed yourself (discover command structure Embed and where you fit in and who you report to) Discern the who, what, where, when and why Mission and Discern of the affected Calling Attend to physical needs Attend Open to Hope, Credo, Quare Credis Open Pray with (when desired) and for (afterwords) Pray Connect them to loved ones, services, their Connect faith community (if desired)
Introduction
Introduction “Never underestimate the power of your ” -- Henri Nouwen
Foundations 1. 3 Basic Assumptions and what Session 2 happens if they are shattered Foundations 2. “Another” Chaos Theory 3. Trauma and Da Bear 4. How Stories work
Foundations Shattered Assumptions Ronnie Janoff-Bulman, Shattered Assumptions , 1992 chaos
Foundations “Another” Chaos Theory Chaos is a condition that we humans tolerate least well. When we experience chaos, we are very unsettled until we can form some order within it. But, the ordering does not need to be factual or true. It only has to make things seem to “add up.” For instance: Katrina explanations When things don’t add up, that is when we experience trauma. chaos
Foundations Da Bear
Foundations If the amygdala only knew!
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