One-Day Course; 7 Contact hours- 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Pacific – Online Zoom
Critical events, disasters, death, and trauma – they shatter our lives and we feel the emotional impact in every part of our life. While we attempt to cope and adjust, we also feel the impact on our relationships. Understanding stress reactions that result from trauma and critical events is a starting point to understanding why relationships suffer. Recognizing signs and symptoms of relationship crisis helps reduce the risk of damaged relationships. Awareness of how depression affects relationships also helps manage the relationship crisis. When relationships are damaged or even broken, there’s hope for healing, repair, or resolving the issues that cause the difficulty. Many seek personal restoration of relationships, and others will seek restoration of family and even professional relationships. Awareness, assessment, preparation, and implementation of relationship theory, principles, and practice will help manage relationships in crisis.
What you will learn:
- How relationships are impacted during crisis and the needs that emerge
- Learn the interrelatedness of individuals and how they react during crisis
- Learn how trust is damaged and can be restored during crisis
- Learn how distress causes emotional fear dancing during crisis
- Learn to communicate more effectively for understanding during crisis
- How to respond to conflict during crisis
- How to deal with angry people during crisis
- How and why to confront during crisis
- How to maintain, build, or restore resilient relationship during crisis
Trainer – Dr. Naomi Paget
FBI Chaplain & Crisis Interventionist (Ret.)
APC Board Certified Chaplain
National VOAD, Emotional & Spiritual Care Committee
ICISF Faculty
December 3, 2026
One-Day Course; 7 Contact hours – 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Pacific – Online Zoom
The concept of resilience has become a popular topic of discussion, learning, and practice in recent years. The idea of “bouncing back” from traumatic events has become imperative for first responders and others who provide caring services and ministry during and after critical incidents. Included in the concept of resilience is the ability to adapt to adversity, to cope in the face of distress, to be flexible in unusual circumstances, and even to see opportunity in
challenges. Spiritual Resilience may be described as the ability to use values and beliefs, a sense of hope and purpose, to sustain oneself through the difficult challenges of life. It is the soul’s ability to feel shalom in spite of difficulty and distress, through times of want and need, maintaining the sacred spaces of wholeness and well- being.
In this course, learn how spiritual resilience has transformational power – the ability to change you from being negative, hopeless, resentful, depressed, mistrustful, and feeling insignificant. Crisis responders who practice habits of the heart strengthen their spiritual resilience in the face of adversity.
What you will learn:
- Describe five traditional ways to build responder resilience
- Learn how spiritual resilience has transforming power for the responder
- Articulate at least three ways to mitigate distress through spiritual resilience
- Apply the concept of self-regulation to a personal decision
Trainer – Dr. Naomi Paget
FBI Chaplain & Crisis Interventionist (Ret.)
APC Board Certified Chaplain
National VOAD, Emotional & Spiritual Care Committee
ICISF Faculty