Humanitarian Outreach
Mission
To share energy practices and resources to promote safety, connection, happiness, health and resilience around the world.
Humanitarian Committee Projects
Veteran to Veteran Project
The Veteran to Veteran Project recruited leaders in the Las Vegas veteran community who have an ongoing helping relationship with veterans experiencing symptoms of post traumatic stress.
Leaders and other participating veterans have gone through an intensive 2-day training on using an energy psychology self-help method (Thought Field Therapy) for reducing PTS symptoms. Our objective is to have these veterans, in turn, reach out to other veterans to teach them how to reduce their symptoms.
This model has been used very effectively for many years around the globe.
Resources for Resilience
This project seeks to alleviate suffering by teaching self-help techniques to those experiencing the effects of violence, trauma and natural disasters. We believe that humans are naturally flexible and resilient; and given effective tools, information and support, can ‘bounce back’ from disaster and adversity. This is in alignment with ACEP’s mission: exploring, researching and promoting EP methods to alleviate human suffering, enhance human performance and further human potential.
Humanitarian Outreach Training Videos
This video series was designed to help professionals who wish to become involved in humanitarian outreach projects. It was created by a joint effort of the ACEP Humanitarian Committee and Gunilla Hamne and Ulf Sandström of the Peaceful Heart Network.
1. How to Build A Workshop - An approach to practical humanitarian outreach
2. Symptoms of Stress - Learn to recognize how stress and trauma can be expressed
View the video
3. Empowerment - One of the most important aspects of humanitarian outreach
4. Your Part in the Puzzle - You already have everything necessary for humanitarian outreach
5. Self-Care - Make sure you know the basics of daily emotional self-care before helping others
6. Scaling - Make every person a part of spreading relief
7. Self-Medication - When the system is helped into balance, the need to self-medicate can disappear
8. Manifesto - Guidelines in practice and attitude for humanitarian outreach
ACEP Energy in Action Projects
Syrian Refugee Project
ACEP initiated and funded a training in Trauma Tapping Technique (TTT) for staff working with Syrian refugees in Turkey and Syria. Gunilla Hamne and Ulf Sandstrom trained 24 staff members from 5 different organizations. The 3-day training was very well received, and was recorded on video (with Arabic translation) in order to spread this work to others helping those impacted by the war and refugee crisis.
Rwandan Genocide Survivors
Project LIGHT is establishing a partnership with Rwanda’s leading peacebuilding organization, Never Again Rwanda (NAR), to train facilitators who are committed to peacebuilding from the inside out by healing their own traumas and holding a powerful resonance for others to do the same. ACEP funds provided critical bridge funding that allowed the project to move forward in 2016 until larger funding is secured for the overall project. A successful pilot program was conducted with 48 NAR representatives, and 400 youth and families have been impacted since April. Project LIGHT and NAR are in the process of developing a Memorandum of Understanding that will enable the Project LIGHT program to scale and replicate throughout 15 communities in Rwanda.
Humanitarian Projects by ACEP Members (not ACEP sponsored)
Self-Regulation as Part of Graduate Education
As part of a larger training, PhD students learned how to handle stressful situations when presenting research through the use of the Trauma Tapping Technique. Many participants reported feeling calmer and less fearful.
If you would like more information on how to use this model, contact
Ulf Sandstrom
Email: u.sandstrom@gmail.com
Phone: 46704-888418
Web: www.peacefulheart.se
Resources
- Thought Field Therapy (complex trauma)
If you are interested in joining the committee or developing a humanitarian project with ACEP, please contact Rachel Michaelsen, chair.
The Humanitarian Committee invites you to join them!
Contact Rachel Michaelsen, Chair | rbmlcsw@sbcglobal.net
Humanitarian Committee Members
Chair, Rachel Michaelseen, MSW, LCSW, DCEP
- Cindy Baker, MEd, DCEP
- Lorre Eaton, DC, CEHP
- Amy Frost, MA, MBA
- Ange Dickson Finn
- Jennifer Groebe, LCSW
- Gunilla Hamne
- Kristin Holthuis, MD, DCEP
- NGWA Ivonne
- Helen Jacobs
- Ryah Ki
- B. Raven Lee, PhD, DCEP
- David MacKay
- Kristin Miller, PhD, DCEP
- Lorna Minewiser, PhD
- Ulf Sandstrom
- Linda Simon
- Suzan Thompson, PhD, LPC
- Suzanne Velasquez-Sheehy, EdD
- Jondi Whitis
- Sara Whittall
