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This major is ideal for professionals and leaders in organisations that work with trauma-affected individuals or communities. You’ll gain a deep understanding of trauma’s impact on organisations and how to implement trauma-responsive practices that foster a compassionate, safe, and supportive environment. You’ll also explore approaches to mentoring, supervision, and leadership within trauma-informed contexts.
The Postgraduate Certificate in Responding to Trauma is a prerequisite to entry into the Postgraduate Diploma which is a prerequisite for entry into the Masters programme.
At BTI we recognise that we are created to engage with the spiritual dimension as well as with the social and physical aspects of people’s lives in the places where we live and work. It is this unique approach to the PG Diploma and Master’s degree, together with an integration of theoretical, personal, and professional learning spaces, that will give you the edge over other professionals.
A key component of our professional PG diploma and Master’s degree programmes is to heighten awareness of your own gifts, talents, strengths, weaknesses and ways of thinking that influence your ‘ways of being’. By engaging in this way, students enter into a practical synthesis between existing literature, personal experience, the Biblical narrative and your own professional context, allowing each to inform the other. These cycles of critical reflection provide opportunities for questioning societal, cultural, and institutional norms and potentially challenging some of the prevailing assumptions and values that inform them.
Completing a reputable postgraduate programme in professional practice can help to advance your career, moving you up the career ladder, or into a connected field.
We have students on this programme from all professional backgrounds who are seeking to transition to a deeper level of understanding of the intersection between their personal gifts and calling and their professional context.
To support your application, the following is required:
Graduates from a postgraduate programme of study such as the Trauma-Informed Leadership & Service major of the PG Diploma and Master of Professional Practice will find it advances their career prospects, either within a current professional field, or into an allied field.
The leadership component of the programme positions students well within the market place to take the next step on the career ladder. Graduates will have a rounded knowledge of leadership as applied to their particular professional context, bringing middle and senior management positions within accessible reach.
“l have experienced MPPL not just as a master’s degree or new learning of information, but as a journey into deep transformation – spiritual, physical, emotional, and professional – and the journey continues.”
– Philippa Becker, Teacher and MPPL student.
“l initially went into the master’s programme unsure of whether I could complete it, but through the gentle nurturing and support which I received from the teachers, I was able to complete my degree.
– John Wilson, Teacher and MPPL Graduate
“I knew that God had called me to complete the MPPL at this time in my life and knowing that gave me the drive and passion to persevere.”
– John Wilson, Teacher and MPPL Graduate