| Summary: | When mass trauma strikes, faith leaders are called upon to guide and sustain communities through the aftermath. Their role is to help us heal. But who heals the healers? Healing the Healers is a new resource intended to support clergy, laity, social workers, first responders and other spiritual care providers facing community-level trauma. The five-part film series is accompanied by written reflections and discussion guides written by scholars, clergy and other experts. In the series, Reverend Matthew Crebbin, of Newtown Congregational Church, leads an important conversation with faith leaders who've experienced mass trauma, either suddenly, as at Newtown or during 9/11, or through ministering to a community facing chronic violence, such as Hartford, CT, or St. Louis, MO. ABOUT THE EPISODE: Newtown Faith Leaders Unite in Tragedy. Reverend Matthew Crebbin talks with fellow Newtown clergy Rabbi Shaul Praver and Reverend Mel Kawakami about their experiences as faith leaders during and after the Sandy Hook School Shooting. They talk about the steps they've taken toward healing and how the trauma and its impact on their lives, faith, and work continues on.
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