Conference on trauma and the Spirituality of Children and the Youth

Unisa - the African university in serve of humanity

Today I want to promote a local conference because of the very important theme that will be addressed. You will most probably not find it easy to locate the call for abstracts on the web, therefore I will include the essential information and also the information that will assist you to contact the organisers. Although this will probably not be a very large conference (I guess just more than 50 people, but hopefully around 100), the topic is relevant to all and the key note speakers will undoubtedly provide us with powerful insight, challenges on how to become involved and stimulate our thoughts and reflections. Here is the short description on the call for abstracts:

‘Trauma can impact children and youth on a physical, emotional, social and spiritual level, causing distress in all of these areas. However, not enough emphasis has been placed on the spiritual consequence of trauma on children and youth. This conference will aim to bring together scholars from various disciplines in order to present research, encourage conversations and critically reflect on the impact of trauma on the spirituality of children and youth.

We invite papers from multiple disciplines, addressing the spiritual trauma children and youth can experience when faced with adversities such as violence and crime, the death of a loved one, accidents, life-threatening and life-limiting illnesses and other healthcare experiences, bullying and cyber bullying, abuse and sexual abuse and pornography.’

This multi-discipline conference will be held at the main campus of the University of South Africa in Pretoria on the 27th and 28th of July 2017. Abstracts should be submitted by 31 March 2017 and must not exceed 250 words. Please send your abstracts to either aposta1 or oberhae at (@)unisa.ac.za, both who are linked to the Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology at Unisa.