January 16, 2025
12 p.m. to 1.30 p.m. EST (UTC-5)
The seminar is offered Online and in English only.
When does sharing stories of trauma lead to healing, and when might it cause unintended harm? What support systems need to be in place before soliciting or sharing stories? This webinar explores these essential questions while examining considerations for ethical practices, the balance of institutional transparency with individual privacy, and the types of guarantees that could help ensure that story-sharing serves its intended healing purpose. Through careful reflection on both risks and benefits, the webinar aims to facilitate a discussion considering how institutions and communities might better approach trauma disclosure in ways that prioritize the well-being of those who share their experiences.
Dr. Rebecca Pawloski
After completing her undergraduate and licentiate studies in systematic theology at the Pontifical Lateran University, Dr. Rebecca Pawloski worked at the Vatican’s Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors and obtained a Diploma in Safeguarding from the Pontifical Gregorian University’s Institute of Psychology. Her doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University, “Defense of the Paraclete: The Witness of Adult Survivors of Clerical Child Sexual Abuse and the Pneumatology of René Girard,” explores how Mimetic Theory illuminates both harmful patterns of communal violence and healing possibilities of spiritual resilience, engaging with the testimony of abuse survivors. This work, which included collaboration with members of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R) at the University of Innsbruck, examines pathways toward institutional healing. Dr. Rebecca Pawloski teaches theology at Loyola University Chicago’s Rome Center. The title of Dr.
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