Spiritual First Aid for Intergenerational Trauma: Oct. 13
Faith community nurses, rostered ministers, chaplains and lay ministry leaders are invited to Spiritual First Aid for Intergenerational Trauma, presented by Jamie Aten, PhD, on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026. Sponsored by the Lutheran Faith Community Nurse Association (LFCNA), this two-hour educational offering will equip participants to provide compassionate spiritual and emotional support.
Time: 4–6 p.m. in most of Arizona and southern Nevada; 5–7 p.m. in Utah and the Navajo Nation.
Cost: $30 for LFCNA members; $50 for nonmembers.
Nursing continuing education: 2.0 contact hours available.
Register for Spiritual First Aid for Intergenerational Trauma.
Through the Spiritual First Aid approach of Triage, Care and Refer, participants will explore how stress, loss, family experiences and coping patterns can affect needs across generations. The session emphasizes listening to identify a person’s most pressing unmet need, offering practical presence and coping support, and recognizing when to connect someone with additional mental health, medical, crisis, community or faith-based resources.
For Lutherans, this work connects with our baptismal calling to serve our neighbors: listening carefully, honoring each person’s dignity and accompanying people through difficult experiences. Participants will learn ways to support connection, meaning, resilience and hope while respecting the boundaries of their ministry roles.
Aten, co-founder of Spiritual First Aid and founder and co-director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College, brings experience as a disaster psychologist, researcher and survivor of Hurricane Katrina and cancer.
Nurses outside LFCNA and non-nurses are encouraged to attend. To receive nursing contact hours, participants must attend the entire event and submit a completed evaluation. The activity is approved by the Montana Nurses Association, an accredited approver with distinction through the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Register and share this opportunity with your congregation’s care and ministry leaders.
