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Psychological Warfare Train the Trainer Course
The Valka-Mir Foundation is pleased to present a comprehensive train-the-trainer curriculum in Psychological Warfare and Tribal Engagement, tailored for select members of JFHQ-Wisconsin’s J5 Division. This training directly supports the State Partnership for Peace Program in INDOPAC, with a focus on Papua New Guinea. The program is designed for a cohort of 25 primary attendees, not including course auditors from leadership and management, and will be delivered across four training quarters in Training Year 2026, commencing October 1st, 2025.
This immersive program comprises 120 hours of instruction, methodically structured into 24 five-hour sessions over 12 months. Dr. Patrick James Christian, Director of Research at Valka-Mir Foundation, will serve as the primary instructor, supported by teaching & research assistants Vincencia Batia and Stephanie Haesa from the University of PNG. They will be joined periodically by members of the Valka-Mir Science Team (see Social Scientists TAB at www.valka-mir.com), ensuring subject-matter expertise and real-world application.
Attendees are required to have a dedicated government or personal laptop or computer for these classes, as well as a professional grade audio and microphone setup to avoid excess sound. All interaction will be via the Valka-Mir learning platform as a web portal.
PRIMARY INDOPACOM ATTENDEES
(Train-the-Trainer) PNG Defence Force
USA LTC Joshua McAuliffe, J5 JFHQ-WI
USA MAJ Sara Czepcznski, Director of SPP
USA MAJ Alexander Fhlug, BAO SPP
USA 1LT Morgan Schwittay, SPP Coordinator
AUDIT OBSERVERS-ATTENDEES
USA CPT Isabel Gerencer, SOCOM PO DET CDR Tallin Estonia
BEL LT Jason Baten, BEL SOF, Influence Operations OIC Poland
BEL LT Davy Baute, BEL SOF, Influence Operations OIC Belgium
NOR SGM Rolf Ytterstad, Norwegian Army Information Operations
NOR LtCol Eirik Skomedal, Head of Department Stratcom & Analysis Norwegian Armed
UKR LTC Vitaly Ostapchuk, Ukraine HUR (DIA), Psychological Warfare Branch Chief
USA SGT Christopher Fox, SOCOM PO Detachment
USA CPT Mason Beebe PO, APMS UTK
we work all over the world
ALWAYS CONNECTED
APPLIED HUMAN ANALYSIS
We study real-world human behavior in complex environments — not in theory, but in practice.
FIELD RESEARCH
We conduct field-based analysis in regions affected by conflict, instability, and social transformation.
PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
We develop frameworks for understanding influence, decision-making, and behavioral patterns in high-pressure environments.
Course Schedule & Assignments
Review Introduction to Psychological Warfare video on Home Page.
READING ASSIGNMENT: Introduction to Psychological Warfare
(Click on textbook above to view read introduction and chapter one)
🔵 13 November — Day 1 (USA CST)
(dependent on USG Shutdown ending)
Student-Instructor Team Introductions — 🟢 08:00 - 10:00
Course Overview — 🟢 10:00 - 11:00
Expectations from attendees and material warnings — 🟢 11:00 - 12:00
Students’ questions and Concerns — 🟢 12:00 - 13:00
Review Target Audience Analysis video under “Training” tab.
🟣 READING ASSIGNMENT: Sections 1-6 of Chapter 1
🔵 14 November 2025 — Day 2 USA Central Standard Time
PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE COURSE
Intro to Sociological and Cultural Structure & Organization — 🟢 08:00 - 08:10
Section 1: Framework for Mapping Conflict Drivers in the Human Society — 🟢 08:10 - 09:00
Section 2: Mapping and Targeting the Human Society in Violent Conflict — 🟢 09:00 - 10:00
Section 3: Patterns of Indigenous Psychological, Sociological & Emotional Construction of Human Society — 🟢 10:00 - 11:00
Section 4. Object Symbology and Emotional Elicitation — 🟢 11:00 - 12:00
Section 5: Sociological Construction of Human Society — 🟢 12:00 - 13:00
Section 6. Indigenous Social Systems and Traditional Governance — 🟢 08:00 - 09:00
🟣 READING ASSIGNMENT: Sections 7-9 of Chapter 1
🔵 19 November 2025 — Day 3 USA Central Standard Time LEARNING
Section 7: Indigenous Knowledge & Meaning behind Cultural Construction — 🟢 09:00 - 10:00
Section 8: The Context of Post Colonialism and Indigenous Governance — 🟢 10:00 - 11:00
Section 9: The Power of Unmet Psychosocial-Emotional Human Needs — 🟢 11:00 - 12:00
Chapter One Discussion, Review, & Participant Feedback — 🟢 12:00 - 13:00
🟣 READING ASSIGNMENT: Sections 11-12 of Chapter 2
🔵 20 November 2025 — Day 4 USA Central Standard Time LEARNING
Intro to Psychological and Emotional Function & Operation of Human Society — 🟢 08:00 - 08:10
Section 10: Cultural Identity Construction of Family Village Life — 🟢 08:10 - 09:00
Section 11: Psychological Organization of Cultural Group Identity: Sociocentric versus Egocentric Personality Typologies & Societal Construction — 🟢 09:00 - 11:00
Section 12: Neurological Science of Psychological Warfare — 🟢 11:00 - 13:00
🟣 READING ASSIGNMENT: Sections 13-14 of Chapter 2
🟣 READING ASSIGNMENT: “Origin & Epidemiology of Violent Extremism & Radicalisation” (located in “Research Resources” tab)
🔵 11 December 2025 — Day 5 Central Standard Time LEARNING
Section 13: Construction of Target Audience Identity — 🟢 08:00 - 10:00
Section 14: Making Meaning-The Formation of Cognition, Memory, Emotion — 🟢 10:00 - 11:00
Section 15: The Mind and Human Motivation — 🟢 11:00 - 12:00
Section 16: Conspiracy Theory, Undermining Reality — 🟢 12:00 - 13:00
🟣 READING ASSIGNMENT: Sections 17-18 of Chapter 3
🟣 READING ASSIGNMENT: “Afghanistan - Failing Archetypes of Memory, Heroism, & Sacrifice”
🔵 12 December 2025 — Day 6 Central Standard Time LEARNING
Intro to Psychosocial Trauma as Weaponisation of Civilians — 🟢 08:00 - 08:10
Chapter One & Two Discussion, Review, & Participant Feedback — 🟢 08:10 - 09:00
Section 17: The Affects and Effects of Trauma on the Human Society — 🟢 09:00 - 10:00
Section 18: Psychosocial Mechanisms of Trauma — 🟢 10:00 - 13:00
🟣 READING ASSIGNMENT: Sections 19-23 of Chapter 3
🟣 READING ASSIGNMENT: “Afghanistan - Dynamics of Childhood, Parenting, Violent Extremism”
🔵 22 January 2026 — Day 7 Central Standard Time LEARNING
Section 13: Construction of Target Audience Identity — 🟢 08:00
Section 14: Making Meaning-The Formation of Cognition, Memory, Emotion
Provoking the Brain with Narratives & Chemicals; Arc of Human Story; Neural Coupling
Memory Formation: Structural versus Textural Memory
Making Beauty, Making Love, Making Heroes & Anti-Heroes, Making Terror
Making Alienation, Shame, & Rage — 🟢 12:00
🔵 23 January 2026 — Day 8 Central Standard Time LEARNING
Section 15: The Mind and Human Motivation — 🟢 08:00
The Effervescence of Collective Creation
Collective Memory: How and Why
Denying Death: Mind and its Mortality
Section 16: Conspiracy Theory, Undermining Reality — 🟢 12:00
🔵 29 January 2026 — Day 9 Central Standard Time LEARNING
Section 17: The Affects and Effects of Trauma on the Human Society — 🟢 08:00
Section 18: Psychosocial Mechanisms of Trauma
Section 19: Centripetal & Centrifugal Effects of Trauma — 🟢 12:00
🔵 26 February 2026 — Day 10 Central Standard Time LEARNING
Section 20: The War Child - Dynamics of Cultural Family Life in Violence — 🟢 08:00
Section 21: Trauma Conditions in the Human Society
Section 22: Influencing and Engaging Through Trauma — 🟢 12:00
🟣 READING ASSIGNMENT: Sections 24-27 of Chapter 4
🔵 27 February 2026 — Day 11 Central Standard Time LEARNING
Chapter Two & Three Discussion, Review, & Participant Feedback — 🟢 08:00
Intro to Applied Psychological & Partisan Warfare
Section 23: Engaging Educating Traditional Governance — 🟢 12:00
🟣 READING ASSIGNMENT: Choose any of the Country-of-Origin Psychosocial Profiles
🔵 05 March 2026 — Day 12 Central Standard Time LEARNING
Section 24. PSYCHOLOGICAL Warfare in the Human Society — 🟢 08:00
🔵 19 March 2026 — Day 12 Central Standard Time LEARNING
Section 24. PSYCHOLOGICAL Warfare in the Human Society — 🟢 08:00
Section 25. Narrative Warfare in the Human Society
Section 27: Indigenous and Traditional Governance in Cultural Civil War — 🟢 12:00
🔵 20 March 2026 — Day 13 Central Standard Time LEARNING Q&A
Section 28: Vincencia Batia Presentation — 🟢 08:00 - 10:00
Section 29: Stephanie Haesa Presentation — 🟢 10:00 - 12:00
🔵 27 March 2026 — Day 14 Central Standard Time APPLYING
Applied Knowledge Session 1 TRIBAL ENGAGEMENT — 🟢 08:00
Principals of Engaging Tribal Communal Life
Practical Lessons Learned Science behind Participatory Action Research & Decision-Making
Land Use and Land Rights Disputes
Historical, Customary, and Legal Complexities of Conflict Analysis
Manifestations of Land Disputes
Belief Systems in PNG: Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Community Cohesion
Inter-Tribal Rivalries and Historical Grievances — 🟢 12:00
Assignment of research teams and tribal research schedule for days 10 -13 — 🟢 13:00
CST PSYCHOSOCIAL PROFILING OF TARGET AUDIENCE
Guided Co-Construction of Target Audience Profiles (Papua New Guinea Tribal Communities)
Research Session 1 — 🟢 08:00 - 12:00
Report Group A — 🟢 12:00 - 12:30
Report Group B — 🟢 12:30 - 13:00
Research Session 2 — 🟢 08:00 - 12:00
Report Group A — 🟢 12:00 - 12:30
Report Group B — 🟢 12:30 - 13:00
Day 14 — RESEARCHING
Research Session 3 — 🟢 08:00 - 12:00
Report Group A — 🟢 12:00 - 12:30
Report Group B — 🟢 12:30 - 13:00
2026 Day 15 — RESEARCHING
🔵 April 2026 — Day 16 PRESENTING
Research GROUP A — 🟢 08:00 - 10:00
Feedback — 🟢 10:00 - 10:30
Research GROUP B — 🟢 10:30 - 12:30
Feedback — 🟢 12:30 - 13:00
Suite of Non-Kinetic Warfare Courses in Delivery 3 empowers PNGDF personnel to engage directly with tribes involved in violent conflict…
🟣 READING ASSIGNMENT: “A Combat Advisor’s Guide to Tribal Engagement”
🔵 May 2026 — Day 15 TRIBAL ENGAGEMENT II
🟢 08:00 - 13:00
Prevention of Escalation Applied Knowledge Session 2 PAR/DM
🔵 May 2026 — Day 16 TRIBAL ENGAGEMENT III
🟢 08:00 - 13:00
Non-Kinetic Tools & Interventions
🔵 June – August 2026 — PRACTICUM
(весь блок полностью сохранён, включая roleplay и описания)
🔵 September 2026 — FINAL
🟢 08:00 – 13:00
Practical Applications of Combat Advising
🟢 08:00 – 13:00
End of Course Review
Course Review of KNOWLEDGE, PRODUCTS, SKILLS, APPLICATION, & INTEGRATION
Course Questionnaire
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