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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 Trauma Training.

Herbalists Without Borders™ is working towards establishing more resources of this specialized training model that could potentially align 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 hope to soon be able to offer an outline, suggestions, information, and samples of 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 the pandemic, Trauma Trainers volunteering in our HWB Chapters are not traveling, but the HWB Office will continue supporting Chapters, Clinics, and Projects that may plan to host local Trauma Trainings using local trainers and/or guest speakers/presenters.

If you are currently a registered Coordinator, contact the office for more information on how to host your own local or Zoom Trauma Training!

HWB has possible online training coming in 2024!

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

Wilma Mankiller
Photo of Trauma Trainers volunteering for HWB in 2016

National Trauma Training Sponsors

Would you like to be an individual or business sponsor of a Trauma Training program?
​Please contact the office at office@hwbglobal.org

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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 writing 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 was our Executive Director from 2017-2022, and is and the Coordinator of our HWB US Donation Distribution Network. 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 was 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, and has supported response to many disasters including fires, hurricanes, floods, protests, drought, humanitarian crises and more.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF HWB!

HWB is a 501c3 NGO nonprofit. Our nonprofit is a global member network of of herbalists, medicinal plant growers, herbal educators, alternative holistic modality practitioners and others dedicated to herbal health access for all, medicinal plant conservation, health justice and more.

Our international headquarters office is in NY and our US Donation Distribution Network is based in Wisconsin. Please email for our mailing address to ship donations.

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