Chaplain Role in Healing PTSD

To view my recent presentation on the chaplain's role in healing combat veterans with PTSD, log onto my iDisk Public Files Then just type in the password: fortress

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Join us for the second "Healing Trauma through Narrative Workshop."

• For military service members, spouses, adult family members, and helping professionals

• For writers of any level

• Express yourself through fiction, memoir, or creative non-fiction writing

• Explore your feelings about deployment, combat, home life, relationships, and transitions

• Share your writing in a safe, respectful, and confidential environment

• Improve your writing and critique skills

Tuesday Evenings -6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23, March 2, 9

Espress It Café – 18 Haddon Ave. Haddon Twp.

• Call: 856-429-3481, e-mail: dinag206@comcast.net for more information

This six-week workshop will be facilitated by freelance writer/researcher Dina Greenberg, M.A. Ms. Greenberg has written extensively on combat trauma and has recently completed a curriculum for chaplains on combat-related PTSD. Her poetry, essays, reviews, and short stories have appeared in publications such as Bellevue Literary Review, Blood & Thunder, Chronogram, theYale Journal of Humanities and Medicine, Lalitamba, and the Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling.

Narrative Workshop Dates

The Healing Trauma through Narrative: Writing Workshop will be held on six consecutive Wednesday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.

September 30, October 7, 14, 21, 28, November 4.

At M'Kor Shalom, 850 E. Evesham Road, Cherry Hill, NJ.

Healing Trauma through Narrartive: Writing Workshops Now Forming in Burlington and Camden Counties

For military service members, spouses, and adult family members

For writers of any level

Express yourself through fiction, memoir, or creative non-fiction writing

Explore your feelings about deployment, combat, home life, relationships, and transitions

Share your writing in a safe, respectful, and confidential environment

Improve your writing and critique skills

Call: 856-429-3481 or e-mail: dinag206@comcast.net, and check this site for further information.

Photo credit: Chris Floyd

Army Suicides on the Rise

The Department of the Army has finally gone public and acknowledged the alarming rate of suicide among its ranks. The story ran March 12, 2009 in the Houston Chronicle. View full text of the article on U.S. Senator John Cornyn's homepage.
Photo Credit: Chris Floyd, 2006