Enhancing Trauma Awareness and Practice

Contemporary work in health, well-being and support settings requires workers to be informed about and responsive to trauma. This workshop will support workers to effectively navigate challenges faced when supporting clients who have been impacted by trauma.

Additionally, the workshop provides key considerations to trauma awareness and practice in everyday work settings, enabling a more trusting and safer experience for workers and clients, supporting safety and well-being considerations.

Participants will learn how to:

• Understanding trauma and its impacts on the brain, mind, and body
• Understanding PTSD and CPTSD
• The role of Trauma Informed Care & Practice in supportive effective systems work
• How to improve effective engagement in stressful / challenging settings
• Prevention, awareness and response to challenges and harms posed through Vicarious Trauma
• Key reflections relating to TICP
• Group discussion addressing challenges faced by participants with client’s experiencing or that have experienced trauma.

Design

Training can be delivered in various modalities, as required to meet your organisation’s specific needs, including:

• in person half day or full day workshops
• live online seminars
• a ‘Train the Trainer’ program which has significant cost savings

The core training can be supported by ongoing, optional Communities of Practice sessions:

• hour long, online sessions
• facilitating ‘learning into practice’,
• addressing key challenges related to trauma awareness and practice
• working through scenarios relevant to the learnings from the core training.