WHO We Are
Multiplying Hope began in 2016 when a group of church planters and psychologists realized that unaddressed trauma is one of the greatest barriers to people hearing, understanding, and accepting God’s love and hope. In response, the group created Multiplying Hope’s Core Curriculum, New Hope, to equip lay people to address trauma safely and effectively in locations where there are few or no mental health resources.
Our leadership includes professionals within the fields of mental health, church planting, trauma healing, community transformation, and administration. However, we consider anyone in our paradigm part of our community, and we draw upon the expertise of partners and trauma healing practitioners. With over 4,000 trained facilitators and many more active group participants, the Multiplying Hope community spreads God’s hope and healing around the world.
WHAT We Do
Multiplying Hope provides resources, training, and consultancy for anyone working with communities who have experienced hurt. While our resources do not take the place of professional counseling, they provide a basic mental health support and foster supportive communities for people experiencing trauma and hurt. We offer:
● Healing Conversations: Resources that train participants to have initial or one-time conversations with those who have experienced trauma.
● Initial Healing Groups: Resources for those experiencing fresh trauma, who may not be ready for in-depth healing groups. These resources are designed to provide basic and immediate trauma-informed mental health support.
● Healing Groups: Resources that create and foster healing communities in which people work through their own trauma and learn to walk alongside others who also have experienced trauma.
● Trauma-informed work: Walking alongside churches as they create safe, healthy, and fruitful spaces based on God's Word, where ongoing discipleship, church planting, and leadership development flourish.
● Consultation: We help organizations and churches make everything they do trauma informed. We build ongoing relationships and invite people using Multiplying Hope principles to communities of practice and cohorts.
HOW We Do It
We build all our resources, trainings, and consultations on the same paradigm. This paradigm, the foundation of everything we do, incorporates our core principles into easily replicated processes. Our core principles include: faith, community, orality, and multiplication.
Though we will never coerce anyone to accept our faith in order to receive our resources, we believe that God is the ultimate source of healing. Everything we do is rooted in God’s redemptive Word.
We use experiential learning and storytelling to weave God’s Word throughout our work. People who have survived traumatic experiences, whether literate or oral, respond more effectively in an oral learning environment.
We desire that what people learn with us spreads far beyond our reach. All of our resources are designed to multiply, and their oral format makes it easy for participants to share what they learn with others.
Because healing happens best in fellowship with others, our resources focus on helping participants heal by forming supportive, emotionally healthy communities. We help people enter new areas in trauma-informed ways, foster supportive healing communities, and continue to grow in community. Ultimately, our hope is to seed healthy churches and bodies of believers.
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"This is listening redefined. I love this new approach—it gives you the space to tell your full story, your whole story, in a way that feels right. It’s the best way to truly listen to others."
Healing group participant
