This course is offered as a Humanitarian Outreach Certificate Program.  3 stages of training in 2 phases are available annually as listed below. Trainings will be posted by topic for Sept – Nov, Jan – March, and April – June. This program allows for 3 groups to be fully trained in all phases over a one year period.   Classes are designed to be small (maximum 20) to allow optimum interaction and personal attention.  Trainings will be held in NYC on Saturday or Sunday, depending on the scheduled date, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm with a one hour lunch break.  Breakfast, snacks, and a light lunch will be included.  If you have any special dietary needs you are advised to bring your own lunch.
 

Guest Contributors – At each training workshop various experts from the field will be invited to present on related topics.  Please see our monthly announcements for Guest Contributors and a specific agenda for each workshop.
Participation Criteria– Participants should have an interest in the health care and healing arena, social activism, and a sincere commitment towards global aid and development.    Our program invites health care professionals, teachers, psychologists, art therapists, nutritionists, alternative medicine practitioners, healers, clergy, interfaith ministers, and laypersons.

 

Phase 1

Stage 1:  Humanitarian Outreach - Includes history of mass trauma, impact of global disasters, genocide/war facts and impacts, PTSD, an overview of clinical interventions, field work history, Biopsychosocial & Spiritual Model, intergenerational transmission, vicarious traumatization, and meaningful exchanges.

 

Stage 2:  Conflict Transformation - Includes facts about domestic, interpersonal, in-group, and global violence. Focuses on non-violent constructive communication, models of conflict transformation, cultural awareness and sensitivity, examines the psychology of negotiation, emphases the importance of organized preparation and establishing process, peace-building, psychospiritual healing dialogue, ancestral insights, electromagnetic field balancing, integrative holistic healing modalities, Biopsychosocial & Spiritual Methodology, and meaningful exchanges.

 

Stage 3:  Cultivating a Meaningfulworld View -  Includes shadow emotions, post trauma growth, resilience, transforming intergenerational trauma, compassion, forgiveness, gratitude, discussions on sacred activism, types of leadership, cultivating inner healing, environmental healing, integration of mind-body-spirit/soul, psychospiritual healing, and meaningful exchanges.

 

Phase 2 

Stage 1: Leadership and Meaning-Making – (Prerequisite Phase 1)

Each participant is required to share a 10 minute presentation on changes that have occurred in them, specifying a focus, action or service to a community.  Each must also answer the question, “What makes your world meaningful?”  A one page summary of this presentation will be published in the Meaningfulworld E-newsletter, and selective essays may be placed on Meaningfulworld.com.  For those eligible, this phase runs concurrently with Stages 1,2,3 beginning in January 2009

Stage 2: Facilitation of Training Workshop – (Prerequisite Phase 1 and Phase 2)

A Meaningfulworld Facilitator is one who leads the group discussion in the afternoon experiential session.  Utilizing the Biopsychosocial and Spiritual Model encourages group interaction, identifies group dynamics and body language, acts as an empathic listener, and provides a therapeutic milieu.  9 opportunities in 3 phases of leadership/facilitations are available annually to be a certified Meaningfulworld Facilitator.  Depending on one’s level of experience, ability, and previous knowledge, one may need to facilitate multiple trainings with the supervision and evaluation of Dr. Kalayjian.

Phase 3:  (Prerequisite completion of Phase 1+2)

Meaningfulworld Humanitarian Outreach Team Member -  Meaningfulworld Humanitarian outreach team members have the opportunity to apply the skills, knowledge, and experience gained through workshops in Meaningfulworld missions to global communities in need. The costs of travel will vary based on the destination. A fee of $250 is required for application, visa, and other introductory expenses

    In addition graduates can become instructors for training workshops, first supervised by Dr. Kalayjian and then independently.  Graduates are required to attend one supervised training annually to maintain their status as a Facilitator.
   Work Opportunities on Completion of Certified Training - We will provide consultations for doctoral dissertations and masters theses, as well as employment.  Graduates of the Humanitarian Outreach Certificate Program may be eligible to acquire positions working for humanitarian outreach NGOs or institutes for transitional justice, conflict resolution, and community outreach.  Graduates will receive a certain number of CEUs (continuing education units) for hours completed, and they may submit their certificates to licensure boards for professional approval.  The following professions accept CEUs:  Marriage & family Therapy, Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, Creative Arts Therapy, and Psychoanalysis.

 

 ATOP Humanitarian Outreach Course Registration Form:

Option 1: Humanitarian Outreach Complete Package – The course fee of $ 595.00 includes the complete training package, one year membership to Meaningfulworld.com, invitation to related events TBA, paper published in monthly Meaningfulworld newsletters and eligibility to assist with Meaningfulworld Outreach Missions. 

 

Option 2: Per Stage – Although early registration is advised, participants can register and enlist at the end of a session for upcoming sessions, depending on availability, in order to complete the curriculum as scheduled.

Payment per Session:  $ 110.00

Special rate for graduate students $60; other students $39; groups of 4+ 20% discount

 

 
___ 30 January 2010, New York City

___ 27 February 2010, New York City

___ 27 March 2010, New York City

___ 22 May 2010, New York City

___ 26 June 2010 (graduation), New York City

___ 25 September 2010, New York City

___ 30 October 2010, New York City

___ 3 December 2010 (healing circle), New York City
 

ATOP Registration Application (please print)
 
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$_____________I would like to also include a donation to Meaningfulworld to help with their Global Outreach Programs.  All donations are tax deductible. 

 

All Checks made payable to ATOP and this form can be mailed to:

 
ATOP, Dr. A Kalayjian,
135 Cedar St , Cliffside Park , NJ   07010 -1003 

 

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              Meaningfulworld is a 501 c(3) not for profit organization.  Visit us at www.Meaningfulworld.com 
 

 

 
      Dr. Ani Kalayjian is a psychology professor, American Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress, Logotherapeutic Psychotherapist, Traumatologist, Genocide Scholar, International Researcher, and international Consultant.  She is the recipient of the Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from her Alma Mate, Long Island University in NYC.  She has over twenty years of experience in disaster management, mass-trauma interventions & conflict resolution; twenty years of university teaching experience (both grad. & undergrad levels) and she has been a psychotherapist in practice in both NY/NJ for over 20 years.

      In the area of human-made disasters, she has worked extensively with survivors of the Gulf War veterans, Vietnam veterans, Holocaust survivors, the Armenian survivors of the Ottoman Turkish Genocide, the WTC terrorism, Iraqi War refugees, Sarajevo War survivors, and Lebanon War refugees.  In the area of natural disasters, she has worked extensively with the survivors of the 1988 earthquake in Armenia, the 1994 earthquake of Southern California, hurricane Andrew in Southern Florida, the 1995 earthquake of Kobe, Japan, the 1999 earthquake in Turkey, Hurricanes George in Mexico & Dominican Republic, the tsunami of 2004 in Sri Lanka, 2005 quake in Pakistan, and 2006 Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in New Orleans and Texas.  She has also assisted mental health professionals in Kuwait and the former Yugoslavia as a consultant, and has volunteered with the Red Cross with the refugees of Kosovo.

      She has published nationally and internationally in scholarly journals, and has several chapters in a variety of books on gender, Logotherapy, disaster & trauma, teen-parent relationships, Genocide, wars, chronic illnesses, climate change, human rights violations, love & forgiveness.   She is the author of the renowned book:  Disaster and Mass Trauma:  Global perspectives in Post Disaster Mental Health Management, Vista Publishing. First Editor of Forgiveness: Pathways for Conflict Transformation & Peace Building book is in press by Springer, 2008, and II volumes of Disaster Handbook 2009 by Praeger.  Contact:   Phone: (201) 941-2266, E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , www.meaningfulworld.com