Online

Delivered over two days, this live programme will start a conversation about how trauma and adversity affects people and the appropriate responses service providers can implement and offer. It will also examine how others’ trauma experiences may affect those providing services – vicarious trauma - and examine how professionals, volunteers and peer workers can embrace a trauma informed approach, including self-care.

This Trauma Informed Practice training aims to help people working in the provision of care to become trauma aware. The programme does not train participants to become trauma therapists. The purpose of this blended learning training is to start a conversation about how trauma and adversity affects and has affected those who use the services we provide and the appropriate responses we can implement and offer; to reflect on how others’ trauma experiences may affect those of us providing services – vicarious trauma and; to examine how we, as professionals, volunteers and peer workers, can embrace a trauma informed approach, including self-care, within our practice.

Learning outcomes

• Increased understanding of trauma and vicarious trauma
• An awareness of the approaches assisting how we might respond as trauma-informed practitioners - both in practical terms and in terms of encouraging agency responses - bearing in mind that trauma informed training requires a longer process than the duration of this programme
• Increased awareness of Trauma Informed Care & Trauma Informed Principles 
• Greater awareness of the presence of trauma in participant's workplace
• Better self-care awareness
• Increased understanding of the relationship between trauma and addiction

Part 1: Pre-recorded Module topics

• Overview of trauma, vicarious trauma and self-care using art images
• Exploration of types of trauma, ACEs and the role of substance use in trauma
• Implementing trauma informed practice in an organisation

Part 2: Live Workshop Content

• Where we meet trauma in our daily work and how it impacts us
• How trauma expresses itself in the people we work with
• Self-care and how we do it
• Trauma specific services
• Examining our own workspace as a trauma informed space.

Participants will receive the pre-recorded modules (with expiration date), an emailed copy of the presentation plus other supporting documents and links to relevant literature by email which will enable them to develop their understanding of Trauma Informed Practice appropriate to this level. In the live session participants will have the opportunity to observe and participate in role-plays and discussions via Zoom.

Participants should have some work experience.  Suitable for: Therapists and Counsellors (please note: this is not designed for experienced therapists), early childhood Educators and Care Professionals and those working in Social Care, Youth and Family Care, Nursing Practitioners, Addiction Services and Homeless Agencies.

This training is also suitable for those working with or meeting service users including support staff, reception staff, canteen staff, managers, Board of Management etc.

Note: Attendees will be expected to have their cameras on during the live training.  This helps generate engagement and interaction with their trainer and other participants.  Please let us know in advance if special circumstances mean that a participant does not have access to a working camera or may have to turn off their camera occasionally.  It is not permitted to record this workshop.

See target group.

See course website for more details https://www.thelearningcurve.ie/courses/remote-learning-trauma-informed-practice-workshop

Where appropriate, The Learning Curve Institute will also distribute a unique pre-course questionnaire to each attendee in order to ensure the training meets the needs of everyone in the room and is tailored to a suitable level while also covering specific situations or scenarios as highlighted by the group.

The Learning Curve Institute also offers a bespoke post course support system whereby participants are provided with the contact details of the lecturer and are free to contact him/her with any questions they may have