About this Online Workshop

Trauma is defined as an experience that overwhelms an individuals capacity to cope. Traumatic experiences occur at any age, and may include experiences such as child abuse and neglect to violence and war. Trauma can interfere with a persons sense of safety, self and self-efficacy as well as the ability to regulate emotions and navigate relationships. For those who have faced multiple traumatic events, repeated experiences of abuse, or prolonged exposure to abuse, trauma is overwhelming and may have a significant impact on living.

This workshop is dedicated to understanding the impacts of traumatic events and how to best support highly traumatized clients by promoting a climate of awareness, safety, trust, collaboration and control. Learning to be trauma informed also emphasizes the importance of recognizing the signs and symptoms of trauma exposure in the professionals who interact and support highly traumatized individuals and how to promote our own resiliency and self-care.

NOTE: This is an interactive, virtual workshop, which is different from a webinar. Participants will be expected to participate through voice and video, and to engage with each other and the facilitator in large and small group discussions, to learn from each other and practice skill development.

Learning Objectives

• Definitions of trauma, PTSD, C-PTSD, vicarious trauma and trauma informed care
• General Adaptation Syndrome
• Fight-Flight-Freeze-Appease
• The impact of trauma on early childhood development and across the lifespan
• Normal brain development and the impact of trauma on brain development
• Signs and symptoms of trauma in people of all ages
• Principles of Trauma Informed Care
• Techniques for creating safety for people exposed to trauma
• Techniques for calming and grounding those impacted by trauma
• Supporting self-management
• Building resiliency building skills in your client
• Post-traumatic growth
• Compassion fatigue
• Themes found in trauma exposure for professionals
• Self-care practices for professionals

Who Should Attend?

Any staff in a human, social or community services organization.

Format and Duration

Four, three-hour and two, two-hour online workshops over the course of two weeks.