Learning Collective
Our Learning Collective offers dynamic training for faith communities and leaders, social service providers, and broader system staff.
We provide both core learning opportunities and bespoke experiences designed to meet the unique needs of each group, including specialized trainings for Native communities, chaplains, and seminaries.
For Faith Communities & Leaders
It Happens Here: Faith Community Edition
Abuse and violence impact every community. This 90-minute session – offered virtually or in person – examines the prevalence of domestic and sexual violence, clarifies key definitions, and connects participants with resources available in your local community.
Unholy Harm: Spiritual & Religious Abuse
This foundational 3-hour session explores spiritual and religious abuse, examining how it often lays the groundwork for other forms of harm.
Participants will learn to recognize key patterns, warning signs, and the misuse of power and belief systems that enable abuse to develop and persist.
Supporting Survivors in Your Community
Abuse prevention begins by addressing the root causes of harm. This session explores how faith communities can challenge the actions, attitudes, and beliefs that enable abuse, protect those who cause harm, and perpetuate violence – while cultivating cultures that prioritize safety, accountability, and healing.
Healthy Boundaries for Faith Leaders
Following FaithTrust Institute’s “A Sacred Trust: Healthy Boundaries for Clergy,” this five-week course will equip participants with the knowledge and resources needed to understand the fundamentals and best practices of healthy, appropriate boundaries in spiritual teacher – community member relationships.
For Social Services & Systems
Sacred Harm: Spiritual Abuse Foundations for Social Services
This introductory session builds on the social sector’s understanding of power and control, centering the role of spiritual and religious abuse as a catalyst for other forms of harm. Participants will learn to recognize key patterns and warning signs, and examine how power and belief systems can be misused to enable abuse to develop and persist.
Rural Faith Community Engagement
This session examines the unique barriers rural survivors face in accessing safety and support, while highlighting the mutual benefits of partnerships between direct service providers and local faith communities.
Participants will gain a deeper understanding of rural survivor needs and leave with actionable strategies to build and sustain collaborative relationships with rural faith communities.
This training has an advanced, implemention session add-on.
Building a Faith System Response
This full-day session, followed by six-months of consultation support, explores how your organization, network, or coalition can partner with faith communities and religious systems to co-create holistic, regional or statewide response frameworks – stratgies that prevents harm, supports survivors, and meaningfully engages those who cause harm.
Bespoke Learning Opportunities
Every faith community and organization carries its own story, strengths, and challenges. That’s why we don’t believe in one-size-fits-all training.
We partner with you to design learning experiences that reflect your context, values, and goals.
Whether you’re just beginning the conversation or deepening existing commitments, we co-create trainings that meet you exactly where you are – equipping your leaders, staff, and community with practical tools, shared language, and meaningful next steps tailored to your unique needs.
Speciality Populations
Our work is strengthened by the lived experience and professional expertise represented on our board.
Because of this diverse leadership, we are uniquely equipped to support and collaborate with several specialty populations, ensuring our approach is informed, culturally responsive, and grounded in real community insight.
Native Communities
We partner with Native communities – including Tribes and sovereign Nations, Tribal coalitions, and Tribal victim service programs.
We provide culturally responsive training and collaborative support that honors Tribal sovereignty, strengthens community-led responses, and uplifts Indigenous wisdom and resilience.
Chaplains: Hospital & Law Enforcement
We equip hospital and law enforcement chaplains with specialized training to recognize and respond to domestic and sexual violence within their professional contexts.
We focus on identifying subtle indicators of abuse and strengthening trauma-informed, survivor-centered responses within crisis and institutional settings.
Faith Leader Training Institutions
We partner with training institutes – including seminaries, rabbinical schools, madrasas, and religious centers – to equip emerging religious leaders with the skills to identify how spiritual abuse creates and perpetuates domestic and sexual violence.
Our training helps future leaders disrupt harmful interpretations and foster safer faith communities.
Liberating faith from violence and abuse will need all of us.
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