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In-House

Professional Development Training

Workshop Price: Full - $245 Group (3+) - $233 Professional Member - $221 Student - $195 EARLYBIRD DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE!!!

Content Why train with Blue Knot Foundation Let us come to you What you need to know Our trainers

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Blue Knot Foundation’s professional development training •

Trauma-Informed Care and Practice • • • • • • • • • • •



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Two days for health professionals

Trauma-Informed Clinical Supervision for Clinical Supervisors •

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Two hours for primary care practitioners

A Three-Phased Approach – Working Therapeutically with Complex Trauma Clients •

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Full day for health professionals

Identifying and Responding to Adults Survivors of Childhood Trauma •

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Full day for professionals working with AOD clients

Supporting Practice with Complex Trauma Clients •



Full day for anyone in the workplace Full day and half day for anyone working in legal and justice sectors Full day for anyone working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients who have experienced trauma

Integrating trauma-informed practice when working with clients affected by alcohol and other drugs •



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Safeguarding Yourself – Recognising and Responding to Vicarious Trauma • • •



Full day for anyone in the workplace Half day for anyone in the workplace Half day for managers Full day for anyone working in domestic and family violence Full day for anyone working in disability Full day for anyone working in homelessness Full day for anyone working in education Full day and half day for anyone working in legal and justice sectors Full day for anyone working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples Full day for anyone working in institutions Full day for personnel in institutions involved in redress

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Half day seminar for clinical supervisors

Blue Knot Foundation’s educational workshops • Educational Workshop for Family, Friends, Partners and Loved Ones of Adult Survivors • Educational Workshop for Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma and Abuse

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lue Knot Foundation (formerly Adults Surviving Child Abuse (ASCA)) is a thought, policy, practice and training leader in the fields of complex trauma, vicarious trauma and traumainformed practice.

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ed by prominent advocate Dr Cathy Kezelman AM (right), Blue Knot Foundation delivers its renowned education and training programs across Australia. The organisation also provides professional telephone counselling, information, resources, supervision and consultancy to improve the lives of adults traumatised and abused as children. Dr Cathy Kezelman AM

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President of Blue Knot Foundation ll of Blue Knot Foundation’s professional development training is grounded in principles and evidence from its nationally and internationally acclaimed Practice Guidelines for Treatment of Complex Trauma and Trauma Informed Care and Service Delivery, Trauma and the Law – Applying Trauma-informed Practice to Legal and Judicial Contexts and additional relevant research.

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his booklet provides an overview and learning outcomes for the organisation’s core training packages. If you wish to discuss your training needs further, please contact our Training Manager at [email protected] or 02 8920 3611. “The workshop was outstanding could be used for all practitioners no matter what their discipline.” - Anne, QLD

“This training was fantastic it really met our needs and we are very pleased that the effects of trauma and how to work with it are being taught outside the mainstream psychological approach." - Emma Hickey, Aftercare 3

Let us come to you

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ant the convenience of having training come to you? Blue Knot Foundation offers a suite of training packages that can be tailored to suit the particular strengths, challenges and needs of your organisation and its staff.

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ll training sessions are interactive, based on adult learning principles and facilitated by skilled and experienced trainers in complex trauma and trauma-informed practice.

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taff working in diverse roles, levels and sectors, across varying organisations can benefit from Blue Knot Foundation’s evidence-based clinical and trauma-informed training.

“We were very satisfied with the service provided by the team at Blue Knot Foundation. From initial contact through to workshop delivery, the staff at Blue Knot Foundation were accommodating and eager to provide training that suited our requirements. Feedback regarding all aspects of the workshop was extremely positive.” - Anonymous, Young NSW

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ducational workshops for survivors and/or family, friends, partners and loved ones can also be delivered in-house.

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hether you’re based in a major city or a small outback town, we have professional trainers all across Australia who can come to you.

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or more information on Blue Knot Foundation’s in-house training, please visit blueknot.org.au/training

What you need to know VENUE Your organisation is responsible for providing a venue that is appropriate for the number of participants, as well as basic equipment such as a data projector, screen, whiteboard, butchers paper and pens, speakers and internet. CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Professionals may claim CPD hours / credits / points for their participation in Blue Knot Foundation training, either as a pre-approved or self-directed learning activity. For more information, please refer to the professional association or the AHPRA website.

wide trainers, all of whom are skilled, experienced and suitably qualified to inspire adult learners. FEEDBACK Blue Knot Foundation is committed to an ongoing quality assurance process. At the conclusion of each workshop, participants are invited to provide feedback about the training. The organisation will also be asked to provide feedback regarding the customer experience. All feedback received is reviewed and considered to improve our services.

CERTIFICATES Blue Knot Foundation will provide Certificates of Attendance to assist participants with their CPD requirements. TRAINERS Blue Knot Foundation’s education and training sessions are supported by our team of nation-

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Our trainers

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lue Knot Foundation’s education and training sessions are supported by our team of nation-wide trainers, all of whom are skilled, experienced and suitably qualified to inspire adult learners. Whether it is to enhance safety and understanding for survivors and family/ friends of survivors, or to build knowledge and skills for professional personnel, the diversity of skills and experience in the team expertly meets the needs of each group.

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Nicole Tujague Karin El-Monir Heather Goddard Sue Ward Rebecca Moran

Julie Porter-Stephens Merle Conyer Sarah Coconis Dragan Wright Michelle Everett Mirna Tarabay Kevin Keith Pam Stavropoulos Sigrid Herring Bradley Foxlewin Stefan Durlach Estelle Snelling Merrin Wake Peter Streker

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he team is underpinned by its collective expertise in complex trauma, traumainformed practice and vicarious trauma.

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lease see left for the locations of our trainers around Australia. To read their individual profiles, please visit: blueknot.org.au/trainers

Foundation for Trauma-Informed Care and Practice Do you work with clients who are likely to have experienced trauma or abuse in their childhoods?

By participating in this professional development training, attendees will:

Would you like to respond better to their everyday difficulties?

emotions and • Utilise knowledge behaviours as of the types, ‘adaptive’ responses prevalence and to trauma impacts of trauma to articulate the • Apply the principles benefits of traumaof trauma-informed informed services practice to develop strategies which • Analyse the stress enhance safety, response to better minimise reunderstand your traumatisation and clients’ challenges support recovery in regulating their emotions and • Perform an arousal individual/ organisational • Use a traumapractice audit informed lens to reframe challenging

Do you want to apply practical trauma-informed strategies which enhance outcomes and minimise the risk of retraumatisation?

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his one-day interactive training builds awareness to the possibility that clients, staff members and/or practitioners may have experiences of trauma, from childhood or more recently. It highlights how the trauma may be affecting their health, wellbeing, daily interactions and functioning.

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he training provides the knowledge and skills needed to better support their sensitivities and vulnerabilities, minimise retraumatisation and enhance possibilities for recovery. As a significant percentage of Australians with trauma histories engages with diverse services, a basic understanding of trauma, trauma dynamics and the core principles of trauma-informed practice is vital for every person working in health and human services.

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his training encourages attendees to reformulate their daily work practice and to ask: “What happened to you?” and ‘work with’ rather than ‘do to’ clients. It fosters collaborative practice, client and staff safety, a strengths-based approach and a trauma-informed lens which views ‘symptoms’ as adaptive coping strategies. Participants will return to their workplace with insights and tools which foster hope, recovery, enhance client and staff wellbeing and minimise the risks of re-traumatisation.

Who should attend? Anyone in the workplace from diverse services and sectors including but not limited to health, community, legal, justice, mental health, AOD, domestic and family violence, child protection, emergency, disability, housing, settlement, and/or employment services. Role examples: community workers, peer support workers, mental health workers, supported accommodation workers.

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Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care and Practice By participating in this professional development training, attendees will: • Acquire knowledge • Acquire the principles of of the types, trauma-informed prevalence and practice which impacts of trauma, support recovery including complex and minimise retrauma traumatisation • Utilise knowledge of the stress response and survivor coping strategies to better understand challenging behaviours, emotions and levels of arousal

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his half-day professional development training provides an introduction to trauma-informed care and practice for frontline and administrative staff, and an orientation or refresher for anyone in the workplace. Many people presenting to diverse services have experiences of past and/or present trauma, which even when not recognised, affect their health, wellbeing, interactions and daily functioning.

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y attending this training participants will acquire a basic understanding of trauma, its dynamics and the importance of trauma-informed approaches for minimising retraumatisation and supporting recovery. The training presents the trauma-informed principles needed for a strengths-based approach. Participants will take home information and basic strategies to support the safe, trustworthy, and collaborative interactions which enhance client and staff wellbeing.

Who should attend? Anyone in the workplace from diverse services or sectors including but not limited to health, community, legal, justice, mental health, AOD, domestic and family violence, child protection, emergency, disability, housing, settlement, and/or employment services. Role examples: Front desk/reception staff; administrative staff; volunteers; ancillary and support staff; new graduates; orientation for all staff in any organisation.

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Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care and Practice for Managers

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his half-day professional development training provides an introduction to trauma-informed practice for personnel in leadership and management roles across diverse systems, sectors and organisations. It is informed by an understanding that past and present trauma/s underpin the presentations of many people to different services but despite their often global effects, are often not identified or acknowledged. Consequently, many people have been re-traumatised in systems of care over time.

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he training establishes the benefits of becoming a trauma-informed service with respect to OH & S and risk management. Doing so is a ‘win-win’ for clients, staff and organisations alike with benefits including reduced stress and enhanced wellbeing for all. While the principles of trauma-informed care are straightforward, embedding them requires ongoing commitment. Leaders and managers are critical to the change process. This training provides an introduction to the knowledge, tools and strategies needed to embark on the journey.

By participating in this professional development training, attendees will: • Acquire knowledge of the types, prevalence and impacts of trauma, including complex trauma

benefits of embedding traumainformed principles into practice, policies and systems for clients, staff and organisations

• Apply insight into the stress response • Delineate the framework and and survivor steps needed to coping strategies embed traumato articulate the informed practice need for traumainto organisations informed services including the role of • Evaluate the managers barriers and

Who should attend? Managers, team leaders or personnel in leadership roles in diverse organisations, services and sectors Role examples: Board directors, CEOs, Heads of department, line managers, team leaders.

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Trauma-Informed Care and Practice in Domestic and Family Violence Services By participating in this professional development training, attendees will: • Utilise knowledge of the prevalence and impacts of the complex trauma of domestic and family violence (DFV) to articulate the benefits of traumainformed DFV services

of trauma-informed practice to develop strategies which enhance safety, minimise retraumatisation and support recovery for families who have experienced family violence

• Analyse the stress • Perform an individual/ response and organisational survivor coping practice audit strategies to better understand • Acquire traumathe challenges of informed strategies clients affected by to help support DFV in regulating optimal arousal, their emotions and emotional arousal regulation and safety • Apply the principles

Who should attend? All staff and practitioners working with victims of DFV in any capacity, either in specialist DFV services or within generalist services to which people with experiences of interpersonal violence present for support.

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Do you work with clients who have experienced domestic and family violence? Would you like to acquire skills to better support them? Do you want to apply practical trauma-informed strategies to minimise the risk of re-traumatisation?

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his one-day interactive professional development training provides the trauma-informed information and skills needed by personnel working with people and families with experiences of domestic and family violence (DFV), past and current.

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s victims of substantial trauma, they often live in fear of, and/or experience ongoing threats or acts of violence, which severely compromise their physical and emotional safety. The trauma/s can profoundly affect their thoughts, beliefs and behaviours. It is important for all people working with victims of DFV to use a traumainformed lens which asks: “What happened to you?” and to ground their individual and service practice in an understanding of the dynamics of traumatic stress and ‘adaptive’ coping strategies.

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his training will workshop the principles of trauma-informed practice using DFV case scenarios and highlight the importance of ‘working with’ rather than ‘doing to’, of collaborative relationships, choice, client and staff safety and a strengths-based approach. It provides participants with insights and tools to take back to the workplace which will enhance the safety and wellbeing of the people and families they support, foster recovery and minimise the risks of re-traumatisation.

Trauma-Informed Care and Practice: Working with People with a Disability

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his one-day interactive professional development training provides personnel working with people with a disability with the information and skills needed to better support clients with experiences of diverse traumas, past and present.

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eople living with a disability often access multiple services frequently over time, and many are institutionalised, at different times and/or experience/witness high levels of abuse, violence and other traumas. The adoption of a trauma-informed approach enables an effective and appropriate response to the ensuing compounding and collective repercussions on feelings of safety, accompanying distress, and ‘behaviours of concern’.

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his training promotes an understanding of ‘challenging’ emotions and levels of arousal, and their behavioural expression. It prioritises ‘working with’ rather than ‘doing to’ clients, collaborative relationships, client and staff safety and working from a strengthsbased approach. It workshops trauma-informed principles using diverse case scenarios from the disability sector to explore strategies which foster safety, wellbeing, hope, choice and self-determination and minimise the risks of re-traumatisation. In so doing it provides participants with insights and tools to take back to the workplace to enhance outcomes.

Who should attend?

By participating in this professional development training, attendees will: • Apply the principles • Utilise knowledge of trauma-informed of the types, practice to develop prevalence and strategies which impacts of the enhance safety, trauma amongst minimise repeople living traumatisation and with a disability support trauma to articulate the recovery for benefits of traumapeople living with a informed disability disability services • Analyse the stress response and survivor coping strategies to understand the challenges people with a trauma history (and who are living with a disability) experience in regulating their emotions and levels of arousal, including their behavioural expressions

• Perform an individual/ organisational practice audit • Acquire traumainformed strategies to help support optimal arousal, emotional regulation and safety in your work with people with a disability who have experiences of trauma

All personnel working within disability specialist service or within generalist services to which people with disability present for support. Role examples: disability support workers, community/mental health support worker, case manager, carer, home care worker, team leader, accommodation manager – disability services, care coordinator

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Trauma-Informed Care and Practice in the Homelessness Sector By participating in this professional development training, attendees will: • Utilise knowledge of the prevalence and impacts of the complex trauma on homelessness to articulate the benefits of traumainformed homeless services • Analyse the stress response and survivor coping strategies to better understand the challenges of clients affected by homelessness in regulating their emotions and arousal

of trauma-informed practice to develop strategies which enhance safety, minimise retraumatisation and support recovery for those who have experienced homelessness • Perform an individual/ organisational practice audit

• Acquire traumainformed strategies to help support optimal arousal, emotional regulation and safety • Apply the principles

Who should attend? All staff and practitioners working with victims of homelessness in any capacity, either in specialist services or within generalist services to which people with experiences of homelessness present for support.

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his one-day interactive training provides the information and skills needed by personnel working with people with in the homelessness sector to better assist the large numbers of clients impacted also by diverse traumas.

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eople who experience homelessness experience high levels of diverse past and present traumas. Many trauma survivors use diverse services at higher rates than the general population; this is compounded for people experiencing homelessness. It is essential to the emotional and physical support as well as the well-being of survivors who are experiencing homelessness that systems’ and individual practice is informed by the groundbreaking research related to Trauma-informed Practice.

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his training will delineate the prevalence, dynamics, impacts of, coping strategies related to traumatic stress and workshop the principles of trauma-informed practice using diverse case scenarios.

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t also provides participants with insights and tools to take back to the workplace to enhance client outcomes and minimise the risks of re-traumatisation.

Trauma-Informed Care and Practice in Educational Settings



Childhood trauma includes all forms of abuse, neglect, growing up with domestic and community violence and ot her forms of adverse childhood experiences. In 2014-15, 1 in 35 Australian children received child protection services." (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2016). As child abuse is the least reported of all crimes, these figures underestimate the real picture of child abuse, let alone childhood trauma.

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hat do these figures mean for a school system? What do they mean for teachers who are often faced with the effects of trauma on a child’s capacity to learn, concentrate, and engage with peers and the school curriculum?

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his one-day foundational interactive professional development training alerts school teachers and other school staff to the possibility that students may have experiences of trauma which are affecting their health, wellbeing, daily interactions and functioning.

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t provides the knowledge and skills needed to better support their sensitivities and vulnerabilities, minimise re-traumatisation and enhance possibilities for engaging in an educational system.

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his training encourages teachers and other school personnel to reformulate their daily work practice and to ask: “What happened to you that might be causing you to experience the world from this perspective?” Participants will return to their workplace with insights and tools which foster hope, enhance student and staff wellbeing and minimise the risks of re-traumatisation of students. Please note: this training is also available in a half day format. The halfday format, while informative, presents the course information in less detail and does not provide the opportunity to workshop concepts for practical application.

By participating in this professional development training, attendees will: • Utilise knowledge emotions and of the types, behaviours prevalence as ‘adaptive’ and impacts responses to of trauma to trauma articulate the • Apply the benefits of principles of trauma-informed trauma-informed practices practice to • Analyse the develop strategies stress response which enhance to better safety, minimise understand the re-traumatisation challenges that and support students face in student well being regulating their • Engage in an audit emotions and tool to support arousal the development • Use a traumaof strategies informed lens for setting up a to reframe trauma informed challenging school system.

Who should attend? Anyone working in an educational setting. Role examples: school teachers, school counsellors, principals, school administration staff.

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Trauma-Informed Practice in the Legal and Justice Sector By participating in this professional development training, attendees will: challenging • Utilise knowledge emotions and of the types, behaviours prevalence and as ‘adaptive’ impacts of the responses to trauma for people trauma engaging with the legal and justice sectors to articulate • Apply the principles of trauma-informed the benefits of individual and trauma-informed organisational services legal practice to minimise re• Analyse the stress traumatisation, response to better promote safety and understand your enhance outcomes clients’ challenges for clients and staff in regulating their emotions and • Develop strategies arousal to work with a range of emotional • Use a traumaresponses and informed lens levels of arousal to understand

Who should attend? Lawyers, magistrates, judges, paralegals, court staff, staff in correctional facilities, tribunals and dispute resolution, police and other personnel in the legal and justice sectors. Role examples: criminal justice and family lawyers/judges, paralegals, legal secretaries, dispute resolution lawyers, solicitors, prosecutors, defence lawyers, personal injury/ litigation lawyers, magistrates, judge’s associates, police officers, correctional officers, clerks.

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his one-day interactive professional development training provides the information and skills needed by all personnel working in the legal and justice sector to better assist, advocate for and support the large numbers of their clients impacted by diverse traumas, past and present.

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eople affected by trauma are at high risk of retraumatisation in systems which are not informed about trauma and its dynamics. Their well-being depends on service responses and practice being trauma-informed: `more effective, fair, intelligent, and just legal responses must work from a perspective which is trauma-informed’ (Randall & Haskell, 2013).

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his training will provide insight into the emotional and behavioural expressions of traumatic stress and help attendees to build the resources, tools and strategies they need to minimise the risks of re-traumatisation and enhance outcomes for not only their clients, but also themselves, their colleagues and the firms/services and systems in which they work. It will workshop diverse case scenarios and the implementation of trauma-informed principles in the practice of the law and domains of justice, and provide tools to take back to the workplace.

Please note: this training is also available in a half day format. The halfday format, while informative, presents the course information in less detail and does not provide the opportunity to workshop concepts for practical application.

Trauma-Informed Care and Practice: Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

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his one-day interactive professional development training provides participants with the information and skills needed to adopt a culturally sensitive trauma-informed approach in their work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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he prevalence of individual, collective and intergenerational trauma, past and present, and its pervasive impacts on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including those related to colonisation, forced removal, and dispossession necessitate a grounding in complex trauma, trauma dynamics, traumatic stress and trauma-informed principles.

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his training is informed by an understanding of the need for holistic approaches to wellbeing and healing which embrace respect for, and, an understanding of, cultural beliefs and traditions, and the importance of kinship and connection to spirituality, land and community.

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he importance of using a trauma-informed lens of ‘working with’ rather than ‘doing to’ is critical. So too is taking a historical perspective which genuinely asks the question: ‘What happened to you, your family, your community and your people to have affected you so profoundly?’ This training provides participants with insights and tools which foster safety, empowerment, self-determination, and enhanced outcomes in their work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities. Blue Knot Foundation collaborates with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service providers to deliver and augment this training with information and strategies for providing culturally-informed, safe, respectful and attuned services. We also acknowledge and thank the cultural mentors who have informed its development and continue to provide guidance.

By participating in this professional development training, attendees will: • Utilise knowledge of ‘adaptive’ responses to complex, collective trauma and intergenerational trauma, its dynamics • Acquire traumainformed strategies to and impacts within help support optimal Aboriginal and arousal, emotional Torres Strait Islander regulation and safety communities to in your work with articulate the benefits Aboriginal and Torres of trauma-informed Strait Islander people culturally sensitive services • Couple traumainformed principles • Analyse the stress with those of a response to better culturally attuned understand your approach to develop clients’ challenges strategies which in regulating their enhance safety, emotions and arousal minimise re• Use a traumatraumatisation and informed lens support healing for to understand Aboriginal and Torres challenging emotions Strait Islander people and behaviours as

Who should attend? Workers from diverse services and sectors including but not limited to health, community, child protection, family and domestic violence, legal, justice, mental health, AOD, disability, housing, emergency and/or employment services who are working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities. Role examples: Aboriginal health/community workers, Aboriginal health practitioners, practice nurses, family support workers, Aboriginal family health workers.

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Trauma-Informed Care and Practice in Institutional Settings By participating in this professional development training, attendees will: • Utilise knowledge of the prevalence and impacts of the complex trauma of institutional child sexual abuse to articulate the benefits of traumainformed institutions • Analyse the stress response and survivor coping strategies to better understand the challenges clients affected by institutional abuse experience in regulating their emotions and arousal • Demonstrate knowledge of the

principles and importance of trauma-informed practice in institutions in the context of institutional dynamics • Apply the 5 trauma-informed principles to individual/ organisational practice and perform a traumainformed practice audit • Acquire traumainformed strategies for supporting emotional regulation, optimal arousal and safety

Who should attend? All personnel working within any institution in any capacity Role examples: reception staff, family and support workers, social workers, case managers, clergy, school teachers, scout masters, youth workers, managers, CEOs, board directors, cleaners, drivers, administrative assistants/workers/managers.

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his one-day interactive professional development training provides the information and skills needed by all personnel working in institutional settings. Institutions play a critical role in our community and large numbers of people seek support and diverse services from them.

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any people have been impacted, directly or indirectly by institutional child sexual abuse and other traumas and we have witnessed their distress and the harm done. It is essential to the wellbeing of those affected, including their loved ones, as well as all other people engaging with institutional services, now and in the future, for the service itself, its policies and practice, and its personnel to be trauma-informed.

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eople with histories of past and present trauma are especially vulnerable to destabilisation and retraumatisation when any processes or interactions replicate elements of the original abuse and/or are not trauma-informed.

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his training delineates the prevalence, dynamics and impacts of institutional child sexual abuse, and promotes understanding of survivor coping strategies and their intersection with institutional dynamics. It also workshops the principles of trauma-informed practice using diverse case scenarios and provides institutional personnel with the insight and tools needed to facilitate positive engagement and minimise the risks of re-traumatisation in the future.

Trauma-Informed Redress: Direct Personal Response

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his one-day interactive professional development training provides the information and skills that institutional personnel need to engage in effective redress processes.

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he Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse recommended redress for all people sexually abused in institutional care as children. People who were abused and betrayed within institutions of care often struggle to feel and be safe and can experience strong emotions, as well as difficulty regulating their level of arousal.

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ffective redress requires all personnel to be traumainformed so as to minimise the risks of destabilisation and re-traumatisation, and to support healing. All institutions offering a direct personal response must be fully conversant with the redress process, dynamics of child sexual abuse and the challenges of providing redress to those harmed by and within institutions.

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his training provides attendees with the insight, tools and skills to carefully plan and comprehensively provide a direct personal response - one which delivers optimal support and best meets survivor expectations. Who should attend? All institutional personnel who will be involved, directly or indirectly, in the redress process, including in the provision of a direct personal response. Role examples: Board members, General Managers, Commissioners, Group Leaders, Executives, Priests/bishops, Presidents, National Directors, Human Resource Managers, Case Managers

By participating in this professional development training, attendees will: • Analyse the stress • Demonstrate an response and understanding of survivor coping the components strategies to of redress and develop traumaits principles in informed strategies relation to the which enlist verbal complex trauma of and non-verbal institutional child communication sexual abuse and its skills for supporting impacts emotional • Delineate the regulation, optimal importance of arousal and safety, trauma-informed and minimising repractice and apply traumatisation a trauma-informed framework to plan • Recognise and address content and the key tasks of process dynamics redress including as well survivor attuned apology/ expectations for redress meetings apology/redress • Define and meetings articulate the importance of individual/ institutional defense mechanisms and evaluate the parallel processes of institutional abuse

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Safeguarding Yourself – Recognising and Responding to Vicarious Trauma By participating in this professional development training, attendees will: • • Demonstrate knowledge of trauma, its impacts, stress response, survivor coping strategies and • possibilities for recovery • Define and delineate Vicarious Trauma (VT), its • development, risk and protective factors, barriers to identifying it and distinguish VT from Burnout and Compassion Fatigue

Evaluate the concepts of post traumatic growth and vicarious resilience Analyse the role of organisations, quality supervision and self-care in VT risk and protection Conduct a wellness assessment and take home tools to create a personal wellness plan

Who should attend? Anyone in the workplace from diverse services and sectors including but not limited to health, community, legal, justice, mental health, AOD, domestic and family violence, child protection, emergency, disability, housing, settlement, and/or employment services. Role examples: community workers, peer support workers, mental health workers, supported accommodation workers.

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Do you work with people who have experienced trauma? Do you worry about burn out, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma? Would you like practical strategies on ways to promote vicarious resilience?

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his one-day interactive professional development training explores the nature of vicarious trauma (VT), contrasts it with burnout and compassion fatigue, and supports you to stay healthy and safe in your work with people impacted by diverse traumas.

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t provides information about trauma, traumatic stress and ‘adaptive’ coping strategies people adopt to introduce the concept of VT. Just as post-traumatic stress disorder can be perceived as a ‘normal’ reaction to an abnormal traumatic event/s, so vicarious trauma (VT) is seen as a normal reaction to repeated exposure to traumatic stories and material. In fact, VT is an ‘occupational hazard’ for people working in the health and human service sectors where the prevalence of unresolved trauma/s is high.

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y attending this training you’ll be equipped with the knowledge, skills, tools and insights to better recognise the early signs of vicarious trauma and understand its dimensions, dynamics and risks. You will also explore the range of organisational, interpersonal and personal protective factors you can employ to minimise the risks of VT and embrace possibilities for post-traumatic growth and vicarious resilience.

Safeguarding Yourself: Recognising and Responding to Vicarious Trauma in the Legal and Justice Sector

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his one-day interactive professional development training around vicarious trauma for legal and justice personnel explores the distinctions between vicarious trauma and burnout and supports you, professionally and personally, to stay safe, healthy and resilient.

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ust as post-traumatic stress disorder can be perceived as a normal reaction to an abnormal ‘traumatic’ event, vicarious trauma is a normal reaction to repeated exposure to traumatic material. A large percentage of clients who engage with the legal or justice system have been affected, often profoundly, by experiences of past and present trauma. These personnel, in being exposed to traumatic stories and material, are at risk of vicarious trauma.

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he risks and negative impacts of vicarious trauma can however be mitigated. By attending this training you’ll be equipped with the knowledge, skills, tools and insights to better recognise the early signs of vicarious trauma, understand its dimensions, dynamics and risks, and engage in protective strategies, individually, professionally and organisationally. You’ll also be supported to develop your own wellness plan to enhance your professional resilience.

Please note: this training is also available in a half day format. The halfday format, while informative, presents the course information in less detail and does not provide the opportunity to workshop concepts for practical application.

By participating in this professional development training, attendees will: • Demonstrate for individual/ knowledge of organisational legal trauma, its impacts, practice stress response, • Articulate the ‘adaptive’ principles and responses to importance of trauma and trauma-informed possibilities for practice to enhance recovery client and personnel • Define Vicarious wellbeing Trauma (VT), its • Delineate the steps features, factors to minimise the in its development risks of VT for staff, and differentiate practitioners and VT from burnout practices, maintain • Identify the professional relevance of VT resilience; conduct to legal practice, a personal wellness the areas of law to assessment and which it applies, take home tools to and risk and develop a plan protective factors

Who should attend? Lawyers, magistrates, judges, paralegals, court staff, staff in correctional facilities, tribunals and dispute resolution, police and other personnel in the legal and justice sectors. Role examples: criminal justice and family lawyers/judges, paralegals, legal secretaries, dispute resolution lawyers, solicitors, prosecutors, defence lawyers, personal injury/ litigation lawyers, magistrates, judge’s associates, police officers, correctional officers, clerks.

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Building Personal Capacity - Understanding Trauma & Responding to Vicarious Trauma: Professional Development for Service Providers Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Clients who have Experienced Trauma By participating in this professional development training, attendees will: • Demonstrate knowledge of complex, collective and intergenerational trauma, its dynamics and impacts for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the potential for healing • Define Vicarious Trauma (VT), its features and factors in its development in relation to cultural beliefs and context and distinguish VT from Burnout and Compassion Fatigue • Demonstrate knowledge of the diverse impacts,

barriers to identification, risk and protective factors of VT in working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities • Analyse the role of organisations, quality supervision, self-care and community in VT risk and protection • Evaluate the concepts of post traumatic growth and vicarious resilience from individual and collective perspectives

Who should attend? Workers from diverse services and sectors including but not limited to health, community, child protection, family and domestic violence, legal, justice, mental health, AOD, disability, housing, emergency and/or employment services who are working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities.

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his one-day interactive professional development training explores the nature of vicarious trauma (VT) and contrasts it with burnout and compassion fatigue. It supports you to keep healthy and safe in your work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities in which complex, intergenerational and collective trauma are prevalent.

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his training presents information about trauma, traumatic stress, coping strategies and impacts. Just as post-traumatic stress disorder can be perceived as a ‘normal’ reaction to an abnormal traumatic event/s, vicarious trauma can be seen as a normal reaction to repeated exposure to traumatic stories and material. This training supports trauma-informed culturally sensitive practice while recognising the significant risk of vicarious trauma in doing this work.

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his training will equip you with the knowledge, skills, tools and insights to better recognise the early signs of vicarious trauma, and understand its dimensions, dynamics and risks using a cultural lens. You will also explore the community, organisational, interpersonal and personal protective factors you can employ to minimise the risks and embrace possibilities for individual and collective post-traumatic growth and vicarious resilience. Blue Knot Foundation collaborates with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service providers to deliver and augment this training with information and strategies for providing culturally informed, safe, respectful and attuned services. We also acknowledge and thank the cultural mentors who have informed the development of this training and who continue to provide guidance.

Integrating trauma-informed practice when working with clients affected by AOD

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his one-day interactive training provides practitioners with the foundational knowledge and skills for working clinically with adult survivors of complex trauma and to understand the complex interaction between alcohol and other drugs (AOD) and presentations of (complex) trauma.

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his training initially introduces the universal traumainformed framework, which underpins all practice. It then focuses on the physiological impact of psychoactive substances, which clients may use to manage their symptoms of complex trauma. The training also looks at the adaptive qualities of AOD use in a trauma-informed framework.

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articipants will acquire insights and tools to support clients who present with challenges related to ‘adaptive’ coping strategies, arousal, emotional regulation, attachment and safety. The training promotes a strengths-based approach that minimises re-traumatisation, fosters a therapeutic relationship and enhances possibilities for recovery from both AOD use and (complex) trauma.

By participating in this professional development training, attendees will: • Utilise knowledge of the types, prevalence, dynamics and impacts of individual, complex and collective trauma to articulate the benefits of traumainformed practice • Develop an understanding of the complex interaction between (complex) trauma and AOD use as an adaptation to manage their arousal and nervous system dysregulation • Apply an understanding of the stress response,

attachment and child development to strategies for supporting the capacity to regulate emotions and arousal • Increase awareness about the interconnectedness of (complex) trauma and problematic AOD use and the clinical implications resulting from this link • Develop a best practice framework when working with people affected by (complex) trauma and AOD use

Who should attend? Support professionals working with adults affected by AOD. Caseworkers, counselling and intake assessment clinicians, support workers, telephone and online counsellors working in diverse settings including but not limited to hospital and community health services, therapeutic communities, specialist alcohol and other drug services, forensic system, Aboriginal health services, dual diagnosis services, homelessness and outreach services.

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Supporting Practice with Complex Trauma Clients By participating in this professional development training, attendees will:

Do you want to better understand the relationship between complex trauma research and practice?

• Articulate the • Utilise knowledge core principles of of the types, complex trauma prevalence, therapy, including a dynamics and phased strengthsimpacts of based approach individual, complex and the importance and collective of relationship in trauma to articulate recovery the benefits of trauma-informed • Create basic practice resources for supporting • Apply an challenging understanding of emotions and the stress response, behaviours, attachment and including child development dissociation to strategies for supporting the capacity to regulate emotions and arousal

Do you want to improve your skills in supporting clients through the three phases of treatment?

Who should attend? Psychologists, clinical psychologists, counsellors, psychotherapists, mental health nurses, social workers, general practitioners, psychiatrists, and all allied health professionals working directly with adult survivors of complex trauma.

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Would you like practical strategies to help manage dissociation and arousal?

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his one-day interactive professional development training provides practitioners with the foundational knowledge and skills for working clinically with adult survivors of complex trauma.

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his training initially introduces the universal trauma-informed framework which underpins all practice. It then focuses on the core and common features of clinical best practice for working with complex trauma clients by drawing on current research in trauma theory and therapy, affective neuroscience, `interpersonal neurobiology’ and the neurobiology of attachment. It differentiates complex trauma from single incident trauma (PTSD) in severity, complexity of impacts and clinical approaches. The training also explores the importance of a phased approach for complex trauma clients, including safety as the first and fundamental phase.

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articipants will acquire the foundational knowledge, insights and tools to support their practice with clients who present with challenges related to ‘adaptive’ coping strategies, arousal, emotional regulation, attachment and safety. The training promotes a strengthsbased approach which minimises re-traumatisation, and fosters a therapeutic relationship which enhances possibilities for recovery.

Identifying and Responding to Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma (Including Abuse): Primary Care Practitioners

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nresolved childhood trauma including abuse (complex trauma) affects 5 million Australian adults. Such trauma is associated with substantial physical and mental health challenges and psychosocial issues.

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aily and often unknowingly, primary care practitioners see a number of such patients – with diverse presentations, high co-morbidity and/or unspecified pain (MUS).

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y attending this 2-hour RACGP QI CPD category 2 activity, GPs and nurse practitioners will be alert to the possibility of trauma underlying presentations and discrete diagnoses. Participants will also acquire the skills to recognise, identify, respond and refer appropriately to improve patient health and wellbeing outcomes as well as practitioner self-care.

By attending this 2-hour professional development training, primary care practitioners will be able to: • Differentiate between single incident and complex trauma • Identify possible adult health presentations of complex trauma

• Implement the 5 principles of trauma-informed care – safety, trustworthiness, choice, collaboration, empowerment into daily practice

• Identify • Implement symptoms and strategies to signs with a respond and/or trauma-informed refer identified lens patients appropriately

Who should attend? Primary care practitioners including GPs and nurse practitioner, as well as practice staff.

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A Three-Phased Approach – Working Therapeutically with Complex Trauma Clients By participating in this professional development training, attendees will: • Delineate the traumatic memory three (3) phases of and working within trauma treatment the window of establishing the tolerance to practice critical importance of phase 1, ‘setting • Workshop skills for working with the scene’ and transference/ conducting phase 1 countertransference, assessment enactments and • Foster resource working with development ‘difficult behaviours’ across all 7 • Demonstrate domains of selfknowledge & care understanding of • Acquire knowledge the components of and skills around integration (phase components of 3); mentalising, phase 2 trauma cognitive work distortions/meaning making & the ability • Apply an to experience understanding of pleasure

Who should attend? Psychologists, clinical psychologists, counsellors, psychotherapists, mental health nurses, social workers, general practitioners, psychiatrists, and all allied health professionals working therapeutically with adult survivors of complex trauma.

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Do you want to expand your understanding, knowledge and skills in working therapeutically with clients who have complex trauma histories? Would an evidence-based phased framework for working with people towards recovery enhance your practice? Would you benefit from learning about effective approaches and trialling them with peers in a safe and supportive training environment?

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his two-day professional development training presents the 3-phased approach for working therapeutically with complex trauma clients.

ay 1 focuses on phase 1 safety and stabilisation emphasising the need for ‘top down’ and ‘bottom up’ approaches to treatment, assessment and resource acquisition. Day 2 presents phase 2: processing the trauma focussing on an overview of memory, including traumatic memory and perception, and workshopping working within the ‘window of tolerance’ - tracking pacing & titrating. It also explores transference/ countertransference, enactments and working with ‘difficult’ behaviours.

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lso on Day 2, Phase 3: integration focuses on the neurobiology of integration, the development of mentalisation, dealing with cognitive distortions and the arena of freedom and liberation. The training promotes safety and the significance of phase 1 throughout all phases and the centrality of the therapeutic attachment alliance.

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he training is interactive and involves role plays, vignettes and case studies. Participants will acquire insights, tools and strategies that support safe therapeutic work, based on best practice principles, with clients who have complex trauma histories.

This workshop assumes good basic prior knowledge including an understanding of trauma-informed principles, the dynamics and the neuroscience of childhood trauma.

Trauma-Informed Clinical Supervision Seminar

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his professional development seminar is for supervisors of diverse health professionals working with complex trauma clients. Just as effective therapy for people who have experienced complex trauma requires adaptation of familiar therapeutic interventions, the same applies to their supervisors.

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y attending this half-day professional development seminar, participants will better understand the limits of ‘standard’ therapeutic modalities. They will also acquire the core principles of trauma-informed clinical supervision and the requisite knowledge and skill base for supervising complex trauma therapeutic practice.

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his seminar equips supervisors to provide traumainformed clinical supervision to meet the special needs of practitioners working with the myriad of challenges posed by complex trauma-related presentations.

By participating in this professional development training, attendees will: • Define the value • of traumainformed clinical supervision and how it differs from traditional models of supervisory practice

Acquire tools to implement enhanced understanding around complex trauma, its dynamics, neurobiological impacts and ‘adaptive coping strategies’

• Apply traumainformed principles and an understanding • Explore the of the limits skills needed of ‘standard’ to become a counselling and trauma-informed psychotherapeutic supervisor modalities to supervisory and therapeutic practice

Who should attend? Clinical supervisors of counsellors, psychologists, and diverse health professionals who work therapeutically with clients experiencing complex trauma-related issues.

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Educational Workshop for Family, Friends, Partners and Loved Ones of Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma (Including Abuse) By participating in this workshop, attendees will: • Understand trauma, the stress response, the impacts of trauma on the brain, the ways survivors cope, their strengths and challenges • Learn the core principles of a trauma-informed approach, what it involves, how it can help and why • Acquire the skills to implement traumainformed principles into their daily interactions with the survivor/s in their life and build healthy relationships • Understand that recovery is possible, how and where to find support for themselves and the survivor in the lives • Develop strategies for self-care

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his full-day educational workshop is for people who are supporting, or are engaged, in a personal capacity, with a person who experienced any form of abuse or other trauma in childhood.

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hildhood trauma is common. It includes all forms of abuse, neglect, and other adverse childhood experiences. Experiences of trauma, particularly from childhood can have substantial impacts on both the adult who experienced it but also on the people around him/her. Being close to, related to and/or supporting a person who has experienced childhood trauma may be challenging. It can also be inspiring and rewarding.

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his workshop will introduce the benefits of being traumainformed, and relevant knowledge and skills to enable constructive interpersonal communication, reduce the likelihood of unintended difficult unsettling interactions, and build safety and trust. Participants will learn about the effects of abuse and other traumas on the developing child and how neurobiological responses can still affect people later in life. They will also be given strategies to help them understand and support survivors on their recovery journey while paying attention to their own self-care.

Who should attend? Partners, friends, family and loved ones of adults who have experienced any form of childhood trauma and/or abuse. This includes emotional, physical and sexual abuse, neglect, growing up in domestic violence situation of with a parent with a mental illness, who is depressed, suicidal or abuses substances, when a parent is imprisoned or other forms of separation e.g. divorce, grief and loss.

Educational Workshop for Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma (Including Abuse)

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his full-day educational workshop provides a safe space for people who have experienced any form of abuse or other trauma in childhood to learn more about the ways in which different childhood traumas can affect people.

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he information provided can help people identify the ways in which their own experiences may have affected them and the ways in which they have coped. The workshop also helps people to make a connection between their childhood trauma or abuse and their current life circumstances.

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he workshop helps to raise awareness about survivors’ strengths and resilience, the role of coping strategies, how the brain responds to stress, and most importantly research which shows that recovery is possible. Participants will gain information which may help them build on their strengths, understand their reactions and ways of coping better and begin to identify strategies for positive change. Participants will also receive information about finding and engaging good support, accessing helpful resources and self-care strategies.

Who should attend? Adult survivors (over 16 years of age) who have experienced any form of childhood trauma and/or abuse. This includes emotional, physical and sexual abuse, neglect, growing up in domestic violence situation or with a parent with a mental illness, who is depressed, suicidal or abuses substances, when a parent is imprisoned or other forms of separation e.g. divorce, grief and loss.

By participating in this workshop, attendees will: • Learn about child abuse/childhood trauma, how common it is and how prior trauma may explain and/or relate to current challenges with relationships, self-esteem, health, wellbeing and other life issues • Identify their strengths, the ways they coped in childhood, the ways they are coping now and consider the possibility of change • Understand more about the brain, trauma and stress • Explore strategies to help steady their emotions and levels of arousal including learning about triggers and how to recognise and better manage them • Learn where to find help, how to care for oneself, how to interact in healthy ways, and explore possibilities for recovery

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