workshops

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Learn the contemporary understanding of trauma from attachment theory, polyvagal theory, and neuroscience from a trauma practitioner. This workshop explores the impact of trauma on an individual, looking at the impact on the brain, the body, social systems, and identity. Reviews findings from research on risk and protective factors introduces the role of trauma informed practice to support healing and repair.

In the same way individuals can be profoundly impacted by trauma, organisations can also become overwhelmed. And in the same way that individuals can heal from these experiences, whole systems can become safe and calm. 

This workshop explores the impact of working with traumatised clients on staff, teams, and organisations and how this can lead to re-traumatisation of service users (and staff).

We then explore creating healing environments that offer reparative experiences for service users (and staff). Approaches include therapeutic responding, reflective practice, the physical environment, and the community and cultural supports. 

Explores ways to understand and respond to challenging behaviours that have their origins in early trauma. Behaviours such as aggression, withdrawal and avoidance, substance use, high distress and 'help seeking' that make engagement tricky, can be distressing, and dangerous. Traditional behavioural approaches to these behaviours are inadequate and can make the situation worse. The trauma informed approaches offer prevention, early intervention, and fast and powerful crisis interventions. Techniques stem from a sound theoretical basis and are taught by a skilled clinician who has been on the front line. 

Working in an environment where we are exposed trauma effects all who work in the field. It also offers opportunities for personal growth and healing, making us better and happier humans. 

This workshop explores why we are drawn to do the work we do, the potential impact (burnout, secondary trauma, vicarious trauma), and ways to buffer ourselves against stress and trauma.

It goes far beyond the traditional self-care approaches and trains staff the same clinical techniques used in trauma treatment by a skilled trauma clinician. This includes training in emotional regulation, managing thoughts and feelings, and individual trauma processing.

Half day add-on workshop focused on building emotional resilience. This workshop teaches clinical techniques for you to use including: Neurotherapy, CBT, DBT, Trauma Therapy, ACT, and Self-Compassion Therapy. 

Perfect add on for the half day 'Moving from vicarious trauma to vicarious growth' workshop

Explores the impact of stress and trauma on individuals, teams, and organisations including hyperarousal (heightened, angry, anxious) and hypoarousal (shut down & withdrawn), shared group affect, difficulties with change and uncertainty. It explores the implications for team dynamics, productivity, and organisational wellbeing.

We then go on to explore ways to support staff using trauma informed leadership to create safe and healing environments, managing change and conflict, and motivation. This workshop also explores ways to implement reflective practice, ways to hold high levels of responsibility, and how we can be the leader that we want to be.