The Little Book of Trauma Healing: Revised & Updated: When Violence Strikes and Community Security Is Threatened

by Carolyn Yoder

How do we address trauma, interrupt cycles of violence, and build resilience in a turbulent world of endless wars, nationalism, othering, climate crisis, racism, pandemics, and terrorism? This fully updated edition offers a practical framework, processes, and useful insights.

The traumas of our world go beyond individual or one-time events. They are collective, ongoing, and the legacy of historical injustices. How do we stay awake rather than numbing or responding violently? How do we cultivate individual and collective courage and resilience?
 
This Little Book provides a justice-and-conflict-informed community approach to addressing trauma in nonviolent, neurobiologically sound ways that interrupt cycles of violence and meet basic human needs for justice and security. In these pages, you’ll find the core framework and tools of the internationally acclaimed Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) program developed at Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding in response to 9/11. A startlingly helpful approach.

152 pages, Paperback

Published June 2, 2020

Reviews

[Audrey · Rating 2 out of 5]

"The last century may have been the most brutal in human history, measured by the number of people affected by violence." Yes, we have a much larger population now; however, in the U.S. crime rates have consistently fallen since the 1990s and I can't imagine things are more violent now then when vigilante justice and slavery were at the fore.
There are some very basic concepts presented in this book; however, I expected something with a bit more heft and statements like the opening one presented above left me feeling doubtful about all of the information given.

[Brianna Daly · Rating 2 out of 5]

Whew, this one was a slog. Reads like going to a conference presentation— it was fairly broad and I found it dense and boring. This book looks at trauma from a macro level- using 9/11 as an example, and I just didn’t find it to be that helpful. There are way more informative, more helpful books on trauma out there- I’d read one of those instead.

[Lisa Tarplee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Small and informational in a way that laypeople can understand.