$ Bishop Palmer’s Leadership Clinic: Navigating Life Amidst Overwhelming Times: Trauma, Crises, and Really, Really Hard Days (West Ohio Conference)

Laura van Dernoot Lipsky is the founder and director of The Trauma Stewardship Institute and author of Trauma Stewardship and The Age of Overwhelm. In her training, she will offer practical tools to help us sustain, individually and collectively, in the face of trauma, secondary trauma and overwhelm. Whether you are in vocational ministry or serving as a layperson, we will discuss what the consequences are as well as strategies for sustaining ourselves and each other. Widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of trauma exposure, Laura has worked locally, nationally, and internationally for more than three decades in the area of trauma. Much of her work is being invited to assist in the aftermath of catastrophes.