If you are experiencing a housing crisis in Hampton Roads (including Greater Williamsburg area), please call the crisis hotline at 866-750-4431
The 3e Training Experience & Our Curriculum
The 3e Training Experience
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We offer specialized training courses and certifications for those interested in trauma studies (individual and collective/societal), strategies for resilience (individual and communal), asset-based community development initiatives and tactics, the social science behind poverty systems, and/or how any of the above intersect with Christian theology through the following certifications:
- GoodNeighbor Orientation (for those interested in joining 3e’s GoodNeighbor Network): 3 Hour Course
- Whole Person-Centered Self-Care: 2 Hour Course
- A Survey of Trauma: Five Markers: 4 Hour Course
- Trauma-Responsive Relationships: Tactics & Engagement: 4 Hour Course
- Trauma-Responsive Care & Practice: 8 Hour Course (Combines 1-3)
- *Hospitality as Trauma-Responsive Leadership in a Culture of Collective Trauma: 6 Hour Course (*Prerequisite Courses: 3, 6)
- Hospitality & Asset-based Collaboration: 4 Hour Course
- Care and Resilience in a Culture of Collective Trauma: 8 Hour Course
- *3e Growth Symbols: 3 Hour Course (*Prerequisite Course: 5 or 9)
- 3e Master Lab (Includes 2-10)
Faith-Based Training Courses:
- 3e Theology & Trauma Lab: 24 Hour Course
- The Trauma-Responsive Congregation: 8 Hour Course
- Hospitality as Trauma-Responsive Liberation in a Culture of Collective Trauma: 6 Hour Course
- Hospitality as Trauma-Responsive Leadership in a Culture of Collective Trauma: 6 Hour Course
- *Hospitality & Christian Community Development: 6 Hour Course (*Prerequisite Courses: 3, 4)
- 3e Faith-Based Master Lab (Includes 1-3)
We also train and certify businesses, government organizations, and non-government organizations in the following certifications:
- Trauma-Responsive Workplace certifications: Three Levels of Certification (Contact us for hours required.)
- Trauma-Responsive Organizational Leadership: Three Levels of Certification (Contact us for hours required.)
- Trauma-Responsive Care & Practice certifications, and Care and Resilience in a Culture of Collective Trauma certification (Contact us for hours required.)
Our training experience is extensive and committed to the guiding values of 3e Restoration inherent to extending gracious hospitality, pursuing restorative justice, developing genuine friendships, and continuing in relentless hope.
The 3e Training Labs and Sessions are led by certified 3e staff and our certified 3e Affiliate Training Collaborative.
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The 3e Accreditation
On Tuesday, December 12, 2023, after a yearlong, exhaustive process, 3e Restoration was awarded the title of IACET Accredited Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (i.e., IACET).
IACET began in 1968 as a task force created by the United States Department of Education, whose goal was to standardize continuing education as a points system valuing 10 contact hours of training as 1 Continuing Education Unit. 55 years later, IACET remains the gold standard for Continuing Education and Training Accreditation.
Being an IACET Accredited Provider, 3e Restoration Inc. is positioned to offer standardized CEUs to industry processionals, including nurses, social workers, psychologists, and many more.
3e will begin the year offering accredited certifications and evidence-based education in the following categories: trauma-responsive care and engagement, social sciences in social displacement, asset-based collaboration and community development tactics, and the socio-cultural theological formation in the Christian tradition. To view our roster of course offers, please visit our website at https://3erestoration.org/training/.
The 3e Curriculum
As neighbors transition from living through social displacement to being housed, and from trauma-response to trauma-responsive, a total life re-orientation must take place. More than behavioral modification is needed to break the cycle of what is sometimes five generations of poverty. Neighbors living through social displacement must experience transformation and systemic change in their lives.
Our concept called, Five-Fold Reality of Social Displacement™ views social displacement as a combination of physical, emotional, cognitive, spiritual, and social effects. Our curriculum, written by clinical trauma professional and S.T.A.R. Practitioner, Fred Liggin (Founder of 3e Restoration, Inc.) is designed to address this fivefold reality in their locality by equipping and encouraging communities to empower neighbors living through social displacement to holistic sufficiency. By drawing upon evidence-based research and practice, trauma studies, the social sciences, asset-based community development strategies, and a robust philosophy and theology of Christian hospitality, our 3e course offerings equip and empower communities with imagination, tactics, and skillset to equip, encourage, and empower neighbors living through social displacement to maintain holistic sufficiency.
Learn more about the five distinctives of our approach by navigating the tabs below.
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The Social Science of Social Displacement: Moving Beyond Crisis Management
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Our approach addresses the authorizing narratives and plausibility structures from which neighbors living through social displacement derive their systems of meaning and behavioral patterns. Our curriculum and course offerings are designed to uncover the personal narratives that possess unhealthy forms of power in the life of a neighbor living through social displacement and how these narratives are formed by relationships, experiences, nature, cultures, and language. Our curriculum and course offerings also equip participants with the tools to understand how systems of meaning are supported by and embedded in the values, institutions, rules/laws, and symbols that set the parameters by which life is envisioned (imagined) in society, and how they influence what behaviors are acceptable. Addressing these areas empowers neighbors to recognize behavioral patterns and their origins.
Moving Beyond Trauma-Informed Care to Post Traumatic Growth
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Informed by trauma studies, our curriculum examines the impact of interpersonal and collective trauma on the individual’s brain, body, self-understanding, social imagination, relational attachment, and resilience. Gleaning from well-respected training programs and a diverse collective of thought leaders in trauma studies, our curriculum offers an extensive overview of how trauma intersects with social science.
Hospitality as Trauma-Responsive Liberation: Moving Beyond Hierarchical Benevolence and Transactional Engagement to Compassionate Presence
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Hospitality as trauma-responsive liberation is a person-centered restorative approach grounded in practices of listening, mutuality, compassion, and presence. According to ancient Near Eastern tradition, hospitality is understood as “tending to a stranger” and has moral dimensions that cause a person to move toward solidarity with others and leverage their present circumstances or resources for the good of others with compassion and generosity. Our curriculum prepares and equips neighbors to move beyond the notions of hierarchical benevolence led by transactional engagement and toward holistic sufficiency where relational engagement is always the chief concern. Hospitality as trauma-responsive liberation resists the tendency to objectify others as prospects to be “fixed” or “saved,” and leads neighbors to prioritize facilitating presence, relationships, empathy, and compassion over programmatic efforts.
Coaching Tools: Moving Beyond Behavioral Modification
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We believe that equipping neighbors living through social displacement or empowering neighbors to shift from trauma-response to trauma-responsiveness means accessing tools that can build character, develop competency, strengthen connections with others, and deepen capacity. These tools must be accessible regardless of educational level or cognitive ability. They must also be memorable and easy to recall and employ in real-life scenarios. These tools, called Growth Symbols, are evidence-based, trauma-responsive tools and collectively address the Five-Fold Reality of Social Displacement™. Our curriculum offers ten Growth Symbols and eight Coaching Tools designed to promote resilience, improve decision-making skills, decrease impulsivity, strengthen personal identity, foster positive self-worth, identify false narratives, increase relational intelligence and healthy attachment, encourage holistic self-examination, and bolster personal productivity.
Situated Learning Theory: Moving Beyond Information-Based Learning to Communal Participation
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We believe that learning must be more than the transmission of factual knowledge or information. Learning is a process of participation in communities of practice that must be situated within authentic activity, context, and cultures. Our curriculum is meant to be applied in 3e Communities of Hospitality and a coordinated system of care grounded in intentional relationships and real-life learning environments. It is in these spaces that the information offered to neighbors living through social displacement is both demonstrated and practiced in real-life contexts and relationships. In a situated learning model, neighbors living through social displacement are encouraged toward self-direction and empowered to give consideration to the relationships, contexts, and cultures surrounding them. A healthy relational framework for interdependence is constructed and unhealthy frameworks of co-dependence or isolationist-independence are deconstructed. Finally, this model of learning serves as the basis by which we develop goals in light of the Five Fold Reality of Social Displacement™ wherein we define holistic sufficiency and trauma-responsive healing as physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and spiritual well-being—human flourishing.