Education Opportunities

Formal Internship Training in the Five Principles to THRIVE
	Belonging Receiving and Giving Life Trauma Recovery Maturity Knowing Your Heart	Spend one week observing a prayer ministry intensive session utilizing these five-to-thrive concepts as well as assessment of the levels of pain experienced in the brain. Interns will observe appropriate interventions used for the various levels of pain experienced in the control centers of the brain. A GREAT follow-up to a THRIVE conference Our Next Training Date Is September 22-26, 2008

Informal Internship Training

This extended program takes place at the C.A.R.E. facility in Baldwin, Michigan. Training includes instruction in topics ranging from basic to advanced materials on type A and B traumas with symptoms such as SRA, DID, Borderline, Narcissism, depression and psychosis. The symptoms are addressed through a Biblical perspective utilizing Life Model and Thrive principles. This innovative program involves intern interactions and participation in the unique healing community of survivors of severe trauma who live in the Baldwin area. The intern will spend time observing client sessions and, when ready, will co-facilitate. The intern will have general goals, community and personal goals which will be reviewed and evaluated by a C.A.R.E. staff mentor.

Interns can determine their own length of stay from a few weeks to months. Each intern can also determine the amount of one-on-one time required with a trainer for individual answers to questions.

Dates: Any length of time, any time of the year.

THRIVE Conference
	June16-20, 2008 Location: Springfield, Illinois	July 28-August 2, 2008 Location: Montreat, North Carolina
	At a THRIVE conference you have the opportunity to improve your brain's right hemispheric control center which is only trained through practice and experience with other people who already have the training. This relational experience introduces and equips you with the 19 skills that let you be the person you desire to be not only when life is good, but also when life is complicated, demanding, and downright hard. Using the central teachings of Jesus, THRIVE teaches ways that free us from the fears and emotional struggles that waste so much time and energy, producing mature followers who are full of His joy, peace, and character strength. Each week of THRIVE provides intensive study and application to let counselors, parents, missionaries, pastors, students, leaders, directors, and key personnel learn to develop the capacities of their nervous systems and those of the people in your family, community or ministry. Everything from parenting and teaching to supervising and counseling depends on a mature, peaceful and synchronized nervous system. Get More Information at thrivetoday.org

Educational Seminars
	C.A.R.E., Inc. staff offer a unique combination of speakers who target specific populations for seminars (professional counselors, clergy, lay counselors, paraprofessionals, caregivers and survivors of trauma). The staff presents the importance of community in the process of healing, which includes a presentation on what happens to the brain when a person is traumatized and how to heal a traumatized brain. At targeted seminars, C.A.R.E. displays a booth to distribute free information on the reality of severe abuse; to gather statistics of information on survivors' needs and community resources through a survey. The booth also displays and sells books, including Dr. Jim Wilder's books Living with Men; Shepherd's House Living from the Heart Jesus Gave You: The Life Model; as well as Cheryl and Jo's books Caregiving: The Cornerstone of Healing, Setting the Captives Free Training Manual, (a comprehensive manual on healing issues) and Cheryl's most recent book, Surviving In Sanity.
	There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men. ... All these are the work of one and the same Spirit and he gives them to each one just as he determines. 1 Corinthians 12:4-6, 11

Small Group Training
	C.A.R.E. staff offers small group training (one church location or ministry). They will educate small groups on the issues of DID, healing severe trauma, SRA issues, and Thrive principles of what happens to the brain when it experiences trauma and how it can be healed.