Licensed Professionals

Peacebuilding’s trainings are approved by the Minnesota professional licensing boards for continuing education credit (CEs).

Peacebuilding’s trainings are designed to meet the continuing education requirement for social workers, psychologists, licensed marriage and family therapists, licensed professional counselors, licensed professional clinical counselors, licensed drug and alcohol counselors, nurses, educators, attorneys, and clergy. We are seeking approval for our trainings for emergency medical service personnel, law enforcement, and community corrections officers.

Peacebuilding's Trainings:

STAR Training

Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience, aka STAR, is 5 day evidence-based trauma awareness and resilience training with a 16 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 its inception, it has 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's staff development needs. We also provide individualized consultation about how to integrate trauma-informed and resilience-oriented strategies into your organization's structure.    

Testimonials

"STAR Training effectively examines multiple perspectives of traumatized individuals and explores how trauma impacts relationships, families, societies, and even countries.  It provides tools to break the cycles of violence of trauma for individuals and communities to move toward forgiveness, healing and restoration."
Ryan Van Wyk, PsyD, LP


"STAR focused my lens and deepened my understanding of the role trauma plays in all of our lives. When allowing the broader and deeper understanding of trauma into my own life and work, I find more places to build resilience in myself, and to guide others to find their strength more easily."
Holly Ingersoll, Ramsey County Social Worker III


"The STAR Training exposes the obscure but destructive effects of personal and societal trauma. It teaches models and tools for healing while reminding us of the resiliency of the human spirit to not only survive but thrive and flourish."
Sophia Park, ThD, LMFT, Shoreview, MN