Community, Healing, Purpose.
Creating healing through community to build meaningful lives
The Academy is a fellowship of people-loving adventurers created for community first responders and volunteers with a vision to create connection through education, experiential training, and disaster response.
The Academy is a space created to bring together like-minded and like-hearted people who want to connect in fellowship with others, who want to learn and become equipped to respond to local, national and international disasters with excellence, who want to serve from a place of resilience and post-traumatic growth, and who want to experience joy, altruism and deep meaning. We believe in accompaniment, in long term strategic partnerships, in drinking coffee, sharing stories and eating food together.
The Academy specifically aims to equip the local community, first responders, volunteers and anyone interested in psychological first aid and disaster response, through experiential educational trainings, certifications and adventure-disaster deployment trips.
We offer trainings throughout the year that are accredited by the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology, that fulfill partial requirements for several certifications with the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology. Use this link to read about GCAT membership https://greencross.org/membership/ and Levels of Certifications /https://greencross.org/training-ce/certifications/.
In order to travel and deploy with the Beautiful Minds Trauma Team, www.beautiuflmindsproject.world, all participants are required to be at minimum Certified Field Traumatologists in addition to each deployment trip specific requirements.
Registration Fees are Non-Refundable and Non-Transferable
The Beautiful Minds Project Academy is a registered 501(C)3 NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION (all Academy workshops are tax-deductible)
This training addresses assessment, treatment and diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder. Public domain assessment and current intervention treatment strategies explored in relation to disaster and chronic trauma. In this...
This course initially focuses on dysfunctional family systems and how incest and molestation alter the family structure in harmful ways. This course will also look at typical diagnostic categories stemming...
Working with Suicide Loss Survivors and Traumatic Bereavement: Grief Education, Trauma Reprocessing and Meaning Making in Traumatic Bereavement (includes segment on EMDR protocol for those with minimum basic training) (EMDR...
This training provides professionals with the tools necessary to understand the process by which the traumatized systems and children are assessed, diagnosed, and treated. Particular emphasis is placed on traumatized...
This training discusses diagnosis and DSM changes about child and adolescent trauma disorders. Attention is focused at treatment issues, treatment modalities, and the effects of crisis and disaster trauma versus...
The focus of psychological first aid is to understand the wide range of needs of survivors across the developmental life span. Emphasis is placed on cultural awareness, flexible methodology, and...
This course focuses on clearly understanding the differences between grief and the multiplicity of loss. Emphasis is placed on intervention strategies for working with survivors of trauma and understand the...
Dr. Alina Garbuz, PhD is Clinical Traumatologist, Licensed Professional Counselor (OK, CO, TX), Certified EMDR Therapist and Consultant, Amen Clinics Certified Brain Health Coach and Professional Life Coach who runs her private practice in Colorado Springs, Colorado with her co-therapist golden retriever Nala. Dr. Garbuz specializes in PTSD, Complex Trauma, Attachment and Relational Trauma, Suicide and Traumatic Bereavement, Disaster Trauma and International Trauma.
Alina and her family moved to the United States as refugees in 1995. Since pursuing her career in Global Mental Health/Missions/Cultural Anthropology at 17 years old, Alina has traveled the world with several humanitarian organizations. In 2017 she started Beautiful Minds Project, a non-profit organization of “people and adventure loving humans” that brings practical and culturally relevant healing programs, education and training to populations suffering from psychological and emotional trauma caused by war conflict, natural disasters, poverty, sexual abuse, and injustice.
In 2023 Alina decided to expand the Beautiful Minds Project into an Academy for Trauma Studies and Disaster Response, with a new focus in bringing great experiential trainings to the the local community, including first responders, volunteers, and anyone interested. The Academy for Trauma Studies and Disaster Response is accredited by The Green Cross Academy for Traumatology as a training site.
Dr. Alina Garbuz believes that the human journey towards wholeness, integration, meaning and purpose cannot be accomplished alone. We all need each other.
Beautiful Minds Project Academy has partnered with the Green Cross Academy for Traumatology to offer certification courses leading to five separate levels of Trauma certification.
The Certified Traumatologist credential is recognized by the Veteran’s Administration (VA), Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), Volunteer Organizations Amid Disaster (VOAD), and other response agencies.
The workshops are offered both on-site in Colorado Springs or online through a virtual classroom.
Certifications available through Green Cross Academy for Traumatology and Requirements– Completion of workshops are often one step in the process of Certification. Participants must become a member of Green Cross through application and annual dues to receive and to maintain Certification for which they qualify. Previous training from other organization are evaluated for credit and acceptance on an individual basis. All certification levels require application to the Green Cross Academy for Traumatology and maintaining membership to maintain Certification(s).
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