What to expect

Train your team to help people overcome trauma and mental health challenges. We’ve got a serious problem. People around the world are at a breaking point when it comes to our mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Yet many Christians aren’t responding to those who have gone through trauma. And the primary reason we aren’t doing more to help is that we don’t believe we’re qualified to help. After all, it’s one thing to feed a hungry mouth or clean up a local park, but mental health? That’s best left to the professionals. Right?

This belief leads us to defer to “outside experts” to handle the heavy stuff. But in doing so, we the Church are losing our voice to help the hurting. Think of it this way – not everyone can be a heart surgeon, but we can all learn CPR to help save a life. The same is true when it comes to helping those who have faced a traumatic experience.

While very few of us are called to be certified counselors, everyone should have the basic training needed to respond to someone who is dealing with tragedy, mental health struggles, abuse, or trauma – especially Christians.

  • Overcome Academy shows your small group and prayer team leaders exactly how to help someone who is dealing with trauma or mental health challenges.

  • Overcome Academy will equip you to know how to respond with confidence to hurting friends and family.

  • Overcome Academy will help you run toward the fire and make a real difference in the lives of those around you

What's Inside the Course

    1. Welcome to this Ephesiology Master Class

    2. How to use the course player

    3. Overview of Overcome Academy

    4. Learn more about REBOOT Recovery

    5. Before we begin...

    1. Getting Started

    2. SESSION ONE: Introduction

    3. SESSION TWO: Overcoming the “Curse” of Compassion

    4. SESSION THREE: Difficult Conversations Made Less Difficult

    5. SESSION FOUR: Helping Out and Not Burning Out

    6. SESSION FIVE: What Does “Healed” Look Like?

    7. BONUS SESSION: How to Respond to a Suicidal Friend

    1. Master of Arts focused on Trauma and Resilience

    2. Go Deeper

    3. Lead a Course

    4. Learn about our Degree Programs

    5. Before you go...

About this course

  • Free
  • 17 lessons
  • Five hours of video

Overcome Academy is offered in partnership with REBOOT Recovery

Overcoming Trauma Together

At REBOOT Recovery, we help people overcome trauma. Our faith-based trauma healing courses, training, and online community are open to anyone looking to move forward from trauma and tragedy into a better future. If the same old therapies or medications have left you feeling hopeless, you've come to the right place.
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Healing What's Hidden

Practical Steps to Overcoming Trauma

Too many of us never heal from trauma, and it ends up controlling our lives. We know our “pre-traumatized” self is in there somewhere, but we can’t seem to find that person anymore. In Healing What’s Hidden, Evan and Jenny Owens shine light on the many pathways where faith and trauma intersect, and they guide you through practical steps to reframe your trauma as a productive – rather than destructive – part of your life.
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Meet your Overcome Academy facilitator

Loré brings years of experience combined with a heart of compassion

Loré Kaylor Cooper

Loré graduated from Towson State University with a BA in International Relations, and joined the staff of Cru at the University of New Hampshire as preparation for ministry in Eastern Europe. After the Berlin Wall fell and Romania executed their communist leader on Christmas day in 1989, she joined a small church planting team to help build up a local body of new believers in Craiova, Romania. She married Michael after her first year there and stayed on for 9 years working on church plants in Slatina, Pitesti, and Bucuresti. Loré loved being a stay home mom and working part time as Michael continued his degrees and ministry efforts. She has spent the last 25 years working with children in various contexts such as substitute teaching, children’s ministry worker, and tutor which inspired her to focus her Master of Arts degree at Kairos University on the effects of trauma and neglect.