Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience

07/23/2025

We are excited to announce the dates for our virtual STAR 1 & 2 trainings this fall. If you have ever considered taking a STAR training, now could be the perfect time! Our virtual trainings allow you to access the world renowned STAR curriculum from anywhere. To hear more from some of our STAR trainers, watch this video which was produced during the 2025 Summer Peacebuilding Institute.

💫STAR Level 1 : September 9 - November 13, Tues/Thursday, 6-8pm ET with instructors Katie Mansfield and Kajungu Mturi

✨STAR Level 2 : September 9 - November 13, Tues/Thurs, 10am-12pm ET with instructor Katie Mansfield

☑️ To apply, visit emu.edu/cjp/star today!

https://youtu.be/S-rvi8-MVPY?si=PeU5rMmLRVfEN51d

Learn a little bit about CJP's Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) program. Find more information here: https://emu.edu/cjp/star/

12/04/2024

Join Us for STAR 1 Training this January!

✨ Apply here!
https://my.emu.edu/ICS/Admissions/STAR
✨ Learn more!
https://emu.edu/cjp/star/participant-info

For over 20 years, STAR (Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience) has been empowering individuals and communities to address trauma, heal relationships, and foster resilience.

This January, we’re offering an in-person STAR 1 training at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA.

📅 When: January 6–10 (M-F), 2025
📍 Where: Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA

This workshop is your chance to:
- Understand impacts of trauma.
- Gain practical tools to address trauma.
- Build resilience for yourself and others.
- Connection with a supportive community.

Join us or share with others who may benefit!

10/26/2022

Download pdf (8.7 MB) Home South Sudan Publications Community Training Manual on Trauma Awareness and Psychosocial Support For Trauma Affected Communities in South Sudan. Community Training Manual on Trauma Awareness and Psychosocial Support For Trauma Affected Communities in South Sudan. Download p...

09/15/2022

While the COVID pandemic caused many challenges for EMU’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute, one benefit from going to virtual programming in 2020 and 2021 was a surplus in scholarship funds. With

08/23/2022

We still have spots available in STAR trainings this fall! We even have a few partial scholarships left. Find more information and sign up here: https://emu.edu/cjp/star/

Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience, a globally known program, can help you help others to process and heal from trauma.

Find more information and sign up here: https://emu.edu/cjp/star/

07/25/2022

Do you want to learn to build resilient communities and address trauma? Join us this fall in-person or online for STAR training! Find more information here: https://emu.edu/cjp/star/

07/08/2022

Mennonite Church USA's Welcoming EveryBODY: Learn, Pray, Join initiative "celebrates the many gifts that people with disabilities bring to our church communities." As part of the initiative, Lead STAR Trainer, Katie Mansfield, recently reflected on "How do we recognize wholeness?"

This blog post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s Welcoming EveryBODY: Learn, Pray, Join initiative. Katie Mansfield facilitates learning about trauma-sensitivity and resilience-building amid conflict, stress and adversity in multiple contexts. Since 2015, she has worked with STAR (Strategies for T...

06/14/2022

After more than 23 years at EMU, including getting his masters from CJP (then the Conflict Transformation Program) in 2001 and directing SPI for the last nine years, Bill’s last day at EMU is June 30.

He has been a steady presence and likely interacted with more individual CJP/SPI students than any other CJP faculty or staff since the program began! It is hard to imagine SPI without him.
In honor of Bill and his many years of contributions to CJP, we invite you to make a gift (https://app.mobilecause.com/form/GXttIQ?vid=sjbz5) to the Summer Peacebuilding Institute. Your gift will support scholarships for students with financial need to attend future SPI courses.

If you prefer to give via check or other method, please contact Lindsay Martin ([email protected]) so she can help facilitate your gift. Thank you so much for honoring Bill for his meaningful contributions to SPI and CJP.

06/13/2022

Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) session 3 class photos! 🎉
The fourth and final session begun this morning, June 13. It has been a joy to have all of you on campus to recapture the one of a kind in-person energy of SPI (emu.edu/spi).

06/13/2022

Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) announced the establishment of the annual Michael J. Sharp Global Peacemaker Award, which will recognize and encourage courageous peacebuilders across the world. The award will be

06/01/2022

It is the end of an era at CJP as we prepare to say goodbye to Jayne Docherty. Jayne joined CJP in 2001 as professor of conflict transformation – just days before the tragic events of September 11. After many years on faculty, teaching a wide range of courses from ‘Negotiation’ to ‘Conflict Coaching,’ Jayne became Academic Director for the CJP graduate programs in 2013, and then executive director in 2019. Her passion for justice, her expansive vision for what is possible, and her love for her students and colleagues have held steady over her 21 years at CJP.

Jayne’s last day at CJP is June 30, 2022 though we hope she returns to teach a course from time to time!
In honor of Jayne and her legacy at CJP, we invite you to make a gift to the Emily Grace Shenk Endowment for CJP at app.mobilecause.com/form/KbhJWA?vid=sc930. This endowment fund provides annual support for CJP operations, giving us the ability to innovate and be nimble in times of great change. As Jayne continues to have big visions for CJP and its impact in the world, your gifts in her honor will enable CJP to continue to innovate, grow, and seize opportunities as they arise.

05/31/2022

“You are the subject of your own research.” Listening to that inner voice sent Lisa Collins, EdD, on her own journey of autoethnography. Collins is co-teaching Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR), Level 2, with Lead Trainer Katie Mansfield, at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding's Summer Peacebuilding Institute.

“You are the subject of your own research.” Listening to that inner voice sent Lisa Collins, EdD, on her own journey of autoethnography. Collins is co-teaching Strategies for Trauma Awareness