Sanctuary Medicine Training
March 31st – April 4th
The Sanctuary Medicine training offers skills and strategies for mitigating harm and building a more healthy and just future, fortifying our relationships, growing our capacity, and building our readiness to care for one another.
Sanctuary Medicine flows from a spiritual, emotional, physical vision of care for individuals and communities in crisis resulting from increased vulnerability. In a world shattered by climate change, racial capitalism and failing democracy, devastating storms and fires, growing unhoused populations, and growing numbers of people targeted by dehumanizing state policies, such as migrants and trans people, Sanctuary Medicine recognizes that church buildings and other community spaces of refuge are still places of first response, and creates a framework of care that includes preparedness, emergency medicine, spiritual and emotional support, and liturgical community care and mutual aid in the face of trauma.
Sanctuary medicine imagines communities of care and refuge, prepared for and able to respond to disasters and community trauma, increasing resilience, relationship and solidarity. Participants will receive training in:
- Field medicine focusing on specific rising needs of vulnerable community members including chronic wound care, weather exposure, stop-the-bleed instruction and chronic conditions faced by those who do not have access to medical support. Trainers include certified EMT’s and WFR’s with extensive street medic experience.
- Emotional and spiritual support for crisis care by disaster first responders, street chaplains and mental health professionals.
- Preparedness practices, including creating community specific plans and supplies as well as organizing community medicine gardens and mutual aid that centers the most vulnerable.
- Liturgical and ritual response and care to allow for long term processes of grief, justice building and cultural transformation.
EVENT DETAILS:
Participants will receive 24 hours of training, 12 healthy meals, and opportunities to join embodied somatic practices, song circles, or other rejuvenative practices. Participants will receive first aide gear and basic life saving equipment worth more than $250 and basic life saving certification through the Red Cross.
Participants will arrive Monday afternoon, join a dinner, and share their first training session that evening. The event will conclude Friday afternoon. Folks are welcome to plan travel for Friday evening, or to stay an additional night and travel on Saturday morning.
PARTICIPANT ELIGIBILITY / WHO IS THIS RETREAT FOR:
This is for faith leaders, community leaders, and organizers with teaching experience who are accountable to a community and intend to resource their community by teaching and training others with their new found skills. We expect participants to act as pollinators – to co-ordinate and lead skill building trainings in the wake of this experience.
As we dream of a more equitable and just future, we are seeking participants who want to address economic and social barriers to health care, and grow capacity for inclusive policies.
This training is a next step beyond CPR training. We request that participants receive CPR certification before attending this training.
FULL ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED:
We ask that everyone arrive on Monday and stay through Friday if at all possible. If you have a need to attend for a shorter period of time, let us know.
FOOD:
All meals and snacks are provided and we can accommodate your dietary preferences. You can expect abundant, nutritious and delicious meals that highlight locally sourced ingredients.
SLEEPING:
Camping is included in the general costs, and there is ample space and utilities for campers. There are guest bedrooms in the main house and additional beds in dwellings on the land. If you want a bed, you can save money by sharing a room with another, or pay more for a private space. If you would like to stay nearby, we can share information about local options. Explore all options here.
COST:
We are offering a tiered sliding scale pricing system to facilitate accessibility. Please pay the highest amount you can afford.
$695 – Suggested
$795 – Sustaining
$595 – Supported
Please reach out to Tevyn at dreamingstonenc@gmail.com, to discuss work trade options or payment plans, or to recieve a editable scholarship application.
We have a limited number of scholarships and you may view the scholarship application here. We are prioritizing scholarship grants for folks who are disproportionately impacted by racial capitalism. To familiarize yourself with the definition of and impacts of class and wealth inheritance, please see this class characteristics outline and resource materials.