Helping Officers Find Healing at a Deeper Level.

Presenter - Dr. Chuck Congram, Chaplain, Windsor Police Service

Orientation

Statement: We live our daily lives in a world with much brokenness.

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Statement: A career in law enforcement exposes an individual to an inordinately large amount of brokenness.

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A. Sources of the Brokenness

I. ____________

II. ____________

III. ____________

B. Types of Trauma

I.	Type A: Not getting what you needed at an appropriate time in your life. Often experienced in childhood.

II.	Type B: Getting what you neither need nor deserve.

III.	Type C: Event trauma.

IV.	Type D: Betrayal trauma - someone who has power or authority uses it inappropriately.

V.	Type E: Long-term stress.

C. Factors Influencing the Impact of Trauma

I: ____________
    II: ____________

        Introvert/extrovert

        Internal/external processor

      III. ____________
 What else was happening in your life at that time?

IV. ____________
 How did those around you handle what was happening to you?

VI.	____________
  What meaning did you or other people attach to what was happening?

D. Centering Understanding

Every loss in life requires an appropriate season of grieving.

E. The Cycle

Life situation                                                            Life situation

     *Dysfunctional behavior                                       Empowered life

            Emotional upheaval                               Peace

                       False beliefs                     Truth            

                                       Woundedness

Definition: Dysfunctional behavior is any inappropriate action designed to kill pain or meet a core longing.

F. Key Understandings Influencing This Journey

I. Cognitive concepts do not trump emotional wounds. You cannot talk a person out of their pain.

II. Broken people need to see someone willing to come and get them even if it means breaking the rules.

III. The impact of an episodic experience can only be trumped by an equally or more powerful episodic experience.

Permission to reproduce or distribute this material must be received in writing by contacting:

Chaplain Chuck Congram
393 Pinehurst Dr. 
Belle River, ON Canada N0R 1A0
519-727-6705
chuckcongram@sympatico.ca