HEALING TRAUMA EXPERIENCED BY AFRICAN AMERICAN/BLACK MALES
Moving from understanding and acknowledging the trauma experienced by African American/Black Males, this 10-part series focuses on action. What can be done as African American/Black Males to heal, and what do those that want to support them do to help the healing process? In this series, we will look at how we can aid the healing process for individuals, systems, institutions, and communities by learning how to dismantle what creates and advances trauma.
Matt Burton, who led the Black Men and Boys Healing Summit in 2016 and was recently asked to develop a training series specifically around Black Male Trauma for Trauma Institute International, will be your teacher, trainer, and guide for this groundbreaking series. |
LUNCH & LEARNS WITH MATT BURTON
HEALING FROM TRAUMA EXPERIENCED BY AFRICAN AMERICAN/BLACK MALES
*Prerequisites: Deepening Awareness of Male Trauma (Series 1) and Understanding the impact of trauma experienced
by African American/Black males (Series 2)
HEALING FROM TRAUMA EXPERIENCED BY AFRICAN AMERICAN/BLACK MALES
*Prerequisites: Deepening Awareness of Male Trauma (Series 1) and Understanding the impact of trauma experienced
by African American/Black males (Series 2)
- How centering the African American/Black experience can impact the healing from the impact of Posttraumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS) on African American/Black males.
- An Ecological System approach and the key segments for healing from traumatic events as well as culturally relevant interventions and healing techniques.
- Foundational ways to developing positive African American/Black male masculinities.
- Helping African American/Black males in their efforts in maintaining healthy masculinities.
- Healing trauma experienced by African American/Black males from the Criminal Justice System.
- Trauma-Informed ways of healing for African American/Black males that increases community healing.
- The impact on the community due to Trauma experienced by African American/Black males.
- Connection to family leading to cultural ways of healing from trauma for African American/Black males.
- Healing by increasing skills to manage the effect of cognitive dissonance.
- African American/Black Males healing from the impact of Posttraumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS) by centering African American/Black Experience.
- Techniques to address somatic expressions of trauma experienced by Black/African American males
“All too often, we in corrections and the public focus solely on the trauma these men commit on others, not recognizing that they are in many cases reacting out of their own trauma. Matt Burton's book, The Unbound Man, goes beyond the destructive behaviors that are the results of trauma from men. He peels back the pain and helps to shed light both through his own experiences and the experiences of others on the impact of unattended male trauma – not just to that man himself, but to others around him. Even better, he shares what worked for him to move beyond the trauma to find health and wholeness, to break the shackles of trauma. This book is a must read not just for justice Involved men, but also for those who work with them.”
Scott Semple
Retired Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Corrections
Scott Semple
Retired Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Corrections