Migrants moving to the Netherlands often only start processing their journey once living here. This is not always easy. Sometimes there are traumas, or intense alienation. It is not uncommon for this to cause addiction or other issues. With this project we want to lend a helping hand. Using National healthcare is often too big a step to take for migrants. One might not know the way, or there might be a cultural taboo on visiting a psychologist (“now you’ve really lost your marbles”). Additionally, there are countless language and cultural problems, which, even if contact is made, make for barriers to overcome. However, many migrants do call upon churches for spiritual support. This could, for example, be because of mistrust in national institutions and authorities due to their country of origin.
The Organisation of Faith Integration is therefore developing a new course for migrants to help them cope with their traumas: The Freedom Focus course. Special about this course is that it combines psychological knowledge with insights from the bible and that it is made for multicultural groups.
In 2021 we tested the course with several multicultural pilot groups. Also psychologists, theologians and migrants helped us. The reactions were very positive.
The course has 16 lessons and there is a course for men and a course for women. Both groups have had traumatic experiences but there are differences in the kind of trauma’s men and women have and in how the cope with them.
Migrants moving to the Netherlands often only start processing their journey once living here. This is not always easy. Sometimes there are traumas, or intense alienation. It is not uncommon for this to cause addiction or other issues. With this project we want to lend a helping hand. Using National healthcare is often too big a step to take for migrants. One might not know the way, or there might be a cultural taboo on visiting a psychologist (“now you’ve really lost your marbles”). Additionally, there are countless language and cultural problems, which, even if contact is made, make for barriers to overcome. However, many migrants do call upon churches for spiritual support. This could, for example, be because of mistrust in national institutions and authorities due to their country of origin.
The Organisation of Faith Integration is therefore developing a new course for migrants to help them cope with their traumas: The Freedom Focus course. Special about this course is that it combines psychological knowledge with insights from the bible and that it is made for multicultural groups.
In 2021 we tested the course with several multicultural pilot groups. Also psychologists, theologians and migrants helped us. The reactions were very positive.
The course has 16 lessons and there is a course for men and a course for women. Both groups have had traumatic experiences but there are differences in the kind of trauma’s men and women have and in how the cope with them.
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