194: How To Care For Hurting Students: Trauma Informed Youth Ministry: Dwight Johnson
What's up everybody! This episode is an important word of care for both your students and you the student minister. Hear the encouraging words of our new friend Dwight Johnson share about ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and how being more informed and trained about trauma will better serve you to serve your students.
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Show Quotes:
- How well do you know the room?
- Walk the roster. Whose student’s story do you not know?
- Their formative experiences will shape how they hear from you, how they engage with your ministry. We need to listen and adapt so that we may help.
- We so often put ourselves on islands of serving others, but living alone.
- Too often, we place all the worry of what needs to happen on our shoulders. Our work is to put a team together around our students to walk through the trauma well.
- Doing ministry well comes through training.
- Vicarious Trauma. The painful resonance of working with people
- We need people to help us when we take the work home with us.
- We are not exempt from facing our own trauma.
Resting isn’t sleeping.
Resting is your work ethic.
Resting is worship.
- We need eyes in on our lives, for the purpose of being whole, aware, and healed.
- When the people of God learn how to rest, the Holy Spirit will give everything we truly need.
- Acknowledge your brokenness. God wants to heal your busy and broken body.
- There are valleys and mountains to this work and God is in both places.