This workshop aligns with the “Embrace & Evolve” theme by guiding participants to **embrace what has been stolen by religious trauma** and **evolve toward sustainable healing** through a salutogenic, health-building framework. Drawing from the core arc of *Finding Everland*, the session follows four movements that mirror recovery: **foundations (orientation), crisis and lament (disorientation), trust rebuilt (new orientation), and integration (thriving and service)**.

Designed for mental health professionals, social workers, counselors, faith leaders, family program providers, childcare professionals, and parents, this workshop equips participants to recognize how spiritual language and authority can be weaponized, and to respond with practices that restore dignity, agency, and relational safety. Participants will learn to interpret recovery through a **Hebraic lens of path, teaching, and life**: *derekh* (path), *torah* (teaching as life-giving instruction), and the ongoing choice toward *chayyim* (life). The goal is not escapism, but “Everland”: a grounded way of being that is authentic, resilient, and sustainable in the world as it actually is.

Participants will:

- Identify common patterns of religious harm that steal voice, choice, and trust.
- Use salutogenesis to map movement from depletion toward health, coherence, and capacity.
- Practice a structured approach for supporting lament without rushing to resolution.
- Build a practical resource map that strengthens comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness for diverse clients and families.
- Develop language for helping people reclaim a life-giving spirituality, or set a healthy distance from faith practices that remain unsafe.

Attendees will leave with a clear stage-based framework, trauma-informed and salutogenic interventions they can apply immediately, and a strengthened ability to support others in rebuilding a stable path forward after religious trauma.