Association Organises Training On Trauma Healing For Southern Kaduna

A five-day grooming of trainers store connected trauma healing and harmless spaces has been concluded successful Zonkwa, Kaura LGA, Kaduna State, with implicit 50 assemblage leaders, women, youth, and religion actors trained to go trauma healing facilitators and harmless abstraction companions.

The grooming was organised by Christian Rural and Urban Association of Nigeria with backing from TetraTec.(SPRiNG)

Trauma Healing Consultant, Mr Boniface Agbo, explained that the sessions were designed to assistance participants recognize trauma arsenic a coiled of the bosom and caput and to supply them with applicable skills for healing.

Agbo highlighted that the archetypal sessions focused connected laying foundations of trust, confidentiality, and empathy.

According to him, the tract visits were besides cardinal to the workshop, adding, “we didn’t conscionable beryllium successful the schoolroom but engaged participants launched harmless spaces, selected listening companions, and started feedback channels, including WhatsApp groups for real-time support.”
He said: “People felt harmless to stock their symptom due to the fact that we created an ambiance of respect. Without that, nary existent healing tin instrumentality place.

“Without addressing these interior wounds, our communities cannot genuinely acquisition peace.”
Also, Mr Magu Zakka, Lead Consultant, who facilitated respective sessions, said the grooming was rooted successful participatory methods that allowed radical to unfastened up astir idiosyncratic struggles.

Zakka noted that officers from Primary Healthcare Centers, the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) desks of the constabulary and civilian defence, and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) joined the sessions.
He said: “This ensures that assemblage members are not near alone, but person nonrecreational institutions backing them up.

“We utilized exercises similar the River of Life and the Empty Chair to assistance participants process grief and choler and done storytelling and forgiveness, they discovered spot to determination forward”.
On his part, the Project Coordinator, Mr Michael Agon, noted that beyond grooming individuals, the task prioritized sustainability.

Agon said that the tract visits formed a captious portion of the programme explaining that harmless spaces established successful Chenchuk, Kpunyai, and Mifi-Attakar, participants acceptable up harmless spaces, identified listening companions, and introduced assemblage feedback mechanisms, including WhatsApp-based support.

He said: “These harmless spaces managed by trained listening companions, volition guarantee that healing continues agelong aft this workshop.”

“The store condensed 5 days of learning into applicable steps portion participants began with foundation-building activities connected trust, confidentiality, and empathy.

“Subsequent sessions focused connected healing practices, listening skills, choler management, and harmless abstraction facilitation portion xercises specified arsenic Listening Triads, the Pebble-in-Shoe activity, and the Contaminated Glass simulation were utilized to exemplify the burdens of trauma and the possibilities of renewal”.

Mrs. Hauwa Luka, a subordinate from Kaura, described the grooming arsenic life-changing, adding, “the interaction of 1 of the workout similar penning a missive to my precocious member helped maine merchandise grief I had carried for years and I near the league lighter.”

Another beneficiary, James Musa, a younker person from Zangon Kataf, said helium learned the worth of listening without judgment.

“The listening triads taught maine patience particularly erstwhile radical privation to beryllium heard but present I cognize however to make that abstraction for others,” Musa said.

Mrs. Sarah Yakubu, a women person from Mifi-Attakar besides testified to the usefulness of the training.

“For the archetypal time, I consciousness assured that I tin usher others successful our assemblage toward healing.

“We present person a harmless abstraction wherever women and young girls tin stock their symptom without fear,” she said.

The store besides engaged section institutions specified arsenic Primary Healthcare Centers, the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) desks of the constabulary and civilian defence, and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). This was aimed astatine reinforcing assemblage enactment systems and ensuring coordinated attraction for trauma survivors.

Despite its success, facilitators noted immoderate challenges, including the abbreviated timeline, subordinate enactment gaps successful immoderate communities, and constricted resources for follow-up mentoring.

They recommended longer grooming sessions, stronger subordinate targeting, and accrued coaching enactment for listening companions to consolidate the advancement made.

CRUDAN has been hailed arsenic a replicable exemplary that bridges trauma healing with peacebuilding. By combining faith-sensitive practices with globally recognized trauma frameworks, the inaugural is offering a pathway to resilience and reconciliation successful Southern Kaduna.