Key misconceptions about what trauma is and how it can affect different people of all ages
Trauma-Sensitive Practice
An instructor-led workshop that explores trauma-sensitive practices and their application across community and care settings. Participants gain a deeper understanding of how trauma affects the brain, behaviour, and wellbeing, while learning practical strategies to create safe, empowering environments that support healing and resilience.
Cost$140
LengthOne-Day
ModeInstructor Led, Live In-Person, Online
This workshop provides an in-depth exploration of trauma-sensitive practices and how they can be effectively applied in various settings, with a focus on understanding the psychological, emotional, and physical impacts of trauma on individuals. Key components of the workshop include the impacts on individuals and the community, and the importance of creating environments that promote healing, safety, and empowerment for those affected by trauma.
Instructor: Stephen Lister
Target Group: All
Learning objectives
How a person with trauma can have difficulty interpreting information that is bombarding their senses
How self-talk can leave a person who has experienced trauma with a feeling of inescapability and helplessness
What happens to the various parts of the brain and nervous system when a person is dealing with stress
Important aspects of the fight, flight, freeze and dissociation spectrum
How a person will behave when they are experiencing learning brain vs. learning brain
How we can work with ourselves and others within our “Window of Tolerance”
How trauma can affect memory and the executive functioning network
Identify ACE’s (Adverse Childhood Experiences) play a role in adult behaviours and strategies to limit the potential of negative or harmful behaviours
The 4 R’s of Trauma: Realize – Recognize – Respond – Resist
Learning outcomes
Determine the different types of trauma people may be experiencing
Inspect the language we use with ourselves and others when thinking and talking about the issue of trauma
Identify key elements of trauma and how to use trauma sensitive practices in their professional and personal lives
Assess how and when to use different strategies by working within the Window of Tolerance in terms of dysregulation, hyperarousal and hypoarousal
Understand how to look at potential trauma in others by putting on our Trauma Sensitive Glasses
Understand the Stress Response on a biological and social basis
Practice strategies to work with people with trauma based on the 5 Pillars of Trauma Sensitivity – safety, choice, trust, empowerment, and collaboration
Recognize the range of causes and symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Support someone who has experienced trauma in the distant and recent past
Employ a trauma sensitive mindset to combat traditional mindsets of judgement, obedience, individual deficiencies, deficit based/reactive, power over, and punitive approaches