Trauma Informed Practice
Duration: One- or Two-Day Training
Who’s it for: Individuals, leaders or teams that work with people who may have had traumatic experiences.
Understanding trauma is not just a responsibility for mental health practitioners; it is essential for anyone working in people-facing or people-leading roles. A trauma-informed approach shifts our fundamental perspective from asking "what is wrong with you?" to "what has happened to you?" This vital shift not only allows us to provide safer, more compassionate care to the people we support, but it also protects our teams from burnout, vicarious trauma, and systemic fatigue.
As with all of our training, we will build a course that works for your people and setting using examples and learning relevant to your team.
An example two-day training may include:
Day 1: Trauma Informed client-facing practice
Identify types of trauma, including those that occur in the workplace
Classify how trauma affects thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
Identify key psychological conditions which are linked to trauma
Explore the Window of Tolerance and techniques for grounding
Recognise our reactions and responses to dysregulated behaviour
Articulate our team principles to trauma informed care
Day 2: Trauma Informed services and Multi-Agency Working
Identify our own responses to traumatic experiences at work
Recognise how working with and witnessing trauma impacts on teams
Gain tools for improved team working and communication.
Consider how restorative Justice principles can aid rupture and repair.
Understand how our systems and processes could help or re=traumatise people.
Understand how systems and organiations can be traumatised, and how to take a trauma-informed approach to multi agency working.