:Trauma Trainings

Natural & Botanical Medicine for Stress, Trauma & PTSD

Every hour on this planet,  local and global people are enduring stress and trauma that devastates and debilitates, depriving humans of their individual and collective human potential.   At Herbalists Without Borders we design and train volunteer humanitarian aid workers to access CAM--Complementary Alternative Medicine techniques to help cope with trauma and disasters and become more resilient.

Emerging Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM) methods of health, herbalism, wellness, recovery and resiliency are surfacing as effective options for victims and survivors of domestic abuse, rape, violent crime, war and other tragic experiences.  These innovative CAM modalities are health pathways that Herbalists Without Borders International promotes through various models of our Trauma Trainings.

Herbalists Without Borders will assist you with a specialized training model that aligns with your regional needs including: alternative medicine modalities & approaches to trauma, violence & PTSD, street medic work, energy work, crisis intervention, EFT, EMDR, botanical medicine, nature therapy and more.  We offer an outline, suggestions, info and budgets from previous events and more to help you organize in your own region with your own unique community.

DUE to the ongoing Impact of COVID, Trauma Trainers are not traveling at this time, but the HWB Office is supporting Chapters, Clinics, and Projects hosting local TT's using local trainers and guest speakers/presenters. Contact the office for more information on how to host your own local or zoom Trauma Training!
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Herbalists Without Borders volunteers and trauma trainers (2016).

​National Trauma Training Sponsors

Would you like to be an individual or business sponsor of a Trauma Training?
​Please Contact Denise Cusack, Executive Director:  officeHWB@gmail.com

"The most fulfilled people are those who get up every morning
and stand for something larger than themselves."
~ Wilma Mankiller

Who are our ongoing Trauma Trainers?

Gigi Stafne, MH, ND, MI
Gigi Stafne, MH, ND, MI is the former Executive Director of Herbalists Without Borders International and the Director of the Green Wisdom School of Natural & Botanical Medicine. She has worked for 33 years in the anti-violence movement nationally and in the natural and botanical medicine profession for decades.  She has significant continuing education, clinical, educational, literary and trauma training experience. Gigi's vision and expertise is helping to promote agendas of health social justice and anti-violence locally and globally through her work in developing International Borderless Medicine Programs, Trauma Trainings, Free Peoples Clinics and other programs.  She has coordinated and contributed to significant projects including:  women's issues and environmental health writer for "Local-Global Forum," Mandatory Arrest Monitoring Project in Domestic Violence, Gender Bias in the Judicial System in Domestic Violence Cases, Choices & Challenges for young women and 2007 recipient of the North American United Plant Savers Medicinal Plant Conservation Award. Stafne has been a lead national-international trauma trainer with Herbalists Without Borders for nearly one decade.
Denise Cusack
Denise Cusack is our Executive Director and the manager of our HWB US Community Apothecary. Denise has several thousand hours of herbal education, certificates in working with trauma, is a clinical herbalist and certified aromatherapist, and has hundreds of clinical herbal hours in pursuit of RH(AHG). Denise manages all donated supplies for clinics, and creates all forms, processes, files, and labels for our donation apothecary management. Denise is the volunteer Clinical Herbalist for the Veterans Resiliency Holistic Clinic under HWB. Denise is also Certified in CPR, AED & First Aid. Denise has completed courses including Psychological First Aid, Crisis Intervention During Disaster, Addressing Traumatic Guilt in PTSD, CHW Mental Health in Disasters, Dealing with Disaster Related Trauma in Children, Disaster Plans & Kit Basics, Disaster Responder Health & Safety, Disaster Sanitation, PTSD & Psychosis, Using a Trauma-Informed Approach to Care with Border Communities, First Responder Health, and Psychosocial Impacts of Disasters on Children. Denise is a Mental Health First Aider via The National Council for Mental Wellbeing, and has attended Once a Warrior, Always a Warrior, with the Peter Levine Institute. Denise also has experience in Restorative Justice and Communication Circles, among many other courses in public health, disaster relief, trauma, and mental health. 
Jeanne Hughes, MH
Jeanne Hughes, Master Herbalist, is a 4th generation herbalist who combines plants CranioSacral Emotional Release Techniques and nutrition education.  Jeanne is our Africa Clinics Coordinator at Herbalists Without Borders and has served several terms on our HWB Board of Directors. In addition to this, Jeanne is a Naturopathic Consultant, Certified Registered Reflexologist, Certified Natural Health Professional, CranioSacral Therapist, Microscopist and Medical Missionary.

Help humanity now.  End the cycle of violence and trauma. 

Herbalists Without Borders is sustained by volunteers, donors & members delivering health, wellness and humanitarian aid to those in need. ​