To increase awareness about a technique in which a group of children coping with grief or loss can express and share the following feelings using crayons: sad, glad, angry, scared and lonely.

To increase awareness and understanding of the components of a spiritual journey.

To increase awareness about a stress reduction game which focuses on 3 basic coping skills: avoid, alter, and accept.

To learn about a technique devised to provide a second parenting experience, offering poorly bonded parents and children a chance to reenact positive parent-infant activities.

To facilitate recovery by recognizing strong emotions from the past regarding things that cannot change, and then tossing them as a way of moving on.

To help one recognize the specific triggers of their PTSD, and their responses to those triggers.

To increase knowledge about a technique where the child is invited to participate in role-playing and skits in which he reenacts relevant and sometimes painful aspects of his own history, while providing distance from his distress.

To increase knowledge about a technique where attempts are made to build or restore bonding between a child under age 6 and a primary caretaker by re-creating a sense of trust and unconditional bonding, so the child can associate other adults with positive nurturing and respond appropriately.

To increase knowledge about a technique used as a part of hypnotherapy, mediation, desensitization training, or pain control, in which children imagine or visualize a specific image to cope with fears, anxieties, or troublesome behaviors.