Developing Your Trauma Toolkit – 7th & 8th May, 2020
This 2-day workshop will introduce the central principles of trauma-informed practice & help therapists develop confidence in working with clients’ trauma. Combining current trauma research, experiential exercises, skills practice & taking a somatic approach, it will explore some of trauma’s neurological aspects, develop familiarity with interventions that address these aspects & help in trauma work and aid the practitioner in developing their trauma toolkit.
Course Content
- Key components, sources & symptoms of psychological trauma;
- Window of tolerance – the importance of regulation and how to use it in therapy;
- Fight/Flight/Freeze responses;
- Three phase/stage approach to working with trauma and the therapist’s role in each;
- Trauma’s brain-body link & the relevance of a body-based approach to working with it;
- Some dynamics of attachment trauma;
- The importance of the therapeutic relationship using a polyvagal lens
- Some stage-specific practical skills and interventions to help in your work to:
- Help clients expand their window of tolerance and learn to regulate
- Bring a client back from a hypo/hyperaroused state
- Help clients identify their feelings and behaviours
- Start to process traumatic memories using the body
- Help clients develop resources, re-orientate to & appreciate their strengths;
- Begin to integrate their experiences and make meaning of their trauma.
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Dates: 7th & 8th May, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm To book tickets please visit: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/developing-your-trauma-toolkit-2-day-workshop-tickets-85376071127 For further information contact: traumainsights@gmail.com |
Facilitator, Patricia Allen-Garrett, BSc (Hons) Psychology, Dip Counselling & Psychotherapy (MIAHIP, ECP)
