Over the last 18 months, facilitators from all over the world have been testing our new app-based program, Anchored in Hope, in their churches and communities. Rich feedback from their pilot groups has helped us revise the program to make it even more effective as a tool for healing in community. As we officially launch the new program, THI’s program development manager Brianna Leiendecker explains what facilitators need to know about what’s new.

Communities of practice are the fellowships that sustain trauma healing ministry around the world. Here are some suggestions for leading a COP.

Once we’ve been trained to be facilitators, we’re eager to lead groups of our own—only to find that starting and sustaining a trauma healing ministry can be challenging and lonely. Maghan Perez, THI’s U.S. program manager, explains how communities of practice (official and unofficial, global and local) can help