Direct Care Staff &
Community Volunteers
Non-licensed direct care staff as well as community volunteers who have attended Minnesota Peacebuilding’s training have increased their capacity to understand trauma, break cycles of violence, and build resilience within their spheres of influence.  Peacebuilding’s trainings integrate trauma-informed and resilience-oriented concepts and practical strategies via accessible teaching and experiential educational methods.  High school graduates as well as trainees with advance degrees accomplish their learning objectives at Peacebuilding’s trainings.   

Trainings:

STAR Training

Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience, aka STAR, is 4 & 1/2 day evidence-based, research-supported academic and experiential education trauma awareness and resilience training with a 13 year national and international reputation of success.  STAR was developed in the months following the tragic events of September 11, 2001 to transform trauma survivors into resilient thrivers.  From it's inception, it encompassed a multicultural perspective that has been well-received globally and locally..

STAR-Lite Training

​Not enough time for the full STAR Training? No worries.  The STAR-Lite Training is a single-day evidence-based training integrating neuropsychology, trauma healing and resilience, restorative justice, nonviolent conflict transformation, and broadly defined spirituality for those who wish to learn the basics of becoming trauma-informed, resilience-oriented, and restorative justice-focused within a shorter-time frame than the full STAR Training.

Restorative Justice 101: Training for Practice in Everyday Life

RJ 101: Training for Practice in Everyday Life teaches the principles, philosophies, and practices of Restorative Justice via lecture and experiential education methodologies for empowering individuals and communities for application in daily life.  Restorative practices empower those who have been harmed, the community surrounding the harmed, and positively impacts the behavior of those who cause harm.

Custom Trainings

Peacebuilding’s expert training facilitators are available to design specialized trainings to meet your organization staff development needs.   We also provide individualized consultation about how to integrate trauma-informed and resilience-oriented strategies into your organization's structure.

Testimonials

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. STAR allows you to accept no one else's definition for your life, and you can help others break the silence of trauma.
- Abdifatah Haji MD, Burnsville, MN

STAR helped me realize that trauma is ubiquitous and if ignored and unaddressed has a negative impact on the person's life. Through STAR, I gained an understanding of the cycle of violence, the tools used to break the cycle and embark on a trauma healing journey. - Maya Sheik-Salah, St. Paul


I’ve experienced difficulties living in Liberia and the USA.  Since attending the STAR Training, l have learned to accept and overcome many challenges.  I have shared the techniques and models taught at STAR to help traumatized others to break and overcome the cycles of violence and trauma. 
- Jerry Gibson, community educator, Moundsview


When attending the STAR training, I was amazed how the deeply personal journey of examining trauma and resiliency in our own lives can transform the personal work that we all do in our communities every day. STAR connects the individual with a larger global community and allows for healthy and compassionate connections by breaking away the barriers caused by trauma and violence.  - Deb Ebert, Transition Coach