Trauma-informed practice

This interactive training will explore trauma, vicarious trauma and trauma-informed practice through a social justice lens and strength-based lens. Participants will consider the fundamentals of trauma (brain, body, nervous system), explore and reflect on trauma-informed approaches and tools to use in their work and in building confidence to interact with diverse persons and communities that have experienced trauma. 

Participants will be encouraged to analyze the ways trauma overlaps with chronic and systemic experiences of oppression and racism and how their own lived experiences might impact their work.  Participants will gain trauma-informed skills to support themselves, their teams and clients.

Learning objectives:

Be able to reflect and gain insight into one’s own individual trauma experiences

Insight into ways to politicize and de-pathologize trauma

Gain a deeper understanding of how trauma impacts the body (brain, body, nervous system)

Develop insight into connections between oppression and trauma

Gain confidence in applying trauma-informed tools and strategies