Trauma Informed Care and Practice
–An Indigenous Approach to
Developing Worker Skills

A 3 day workshop which begins to unpack ‘Symptom as History’ providing tools to develop generational resilience in healing from trauma and systems transformation.

Developed by Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson AO and Dr Caroline Atkinson PhD and facilitated by Rayleen Councillor and Carina Frew.

This workshop unpacks the topics that are most commonly requested by people working in the Human Services field and Indigenous families who are living with trauma behaviours. It is an experiential and interactive workshop. A safe space to talk about the issues, where sense can be made of the Number 1 question: ‘WHY IS THIS HAPPENING AND WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT IT?’

TOPICS INCLUDE (but not limited to):

• improving responses to trauma behaviours
• working with Indigenous young people & communities
• trauma audits using genograms & loss history maps
• experiential and interactive activities
• Indigenous healing practices, what do they look like
• de-escalation strategies
• exploring behaviour as language
• story mapping, how history of place strengthens
responses
• unpacking cultural safety, cultural sensitivity, cultural
fitness, cultural security, cultural competency and what
they all mean
• how trauma is stored in the brain and the body
• art, dance, drama, music, song, massage therapies
• strengthening integrative service responses in your
community
• developing communities of care within communities of
practice
• effective yarning circles & action planning
• self care practices and debriefing
• how to minimise and respond to vicarious trauma and
burn-out
• physical, psychological, mental ill-health and substance use
• defining and understanding violence

Presenter/s:

Rayleen Councillor – Lead Facilitator

Carina Frew – Support Facilitator

This course counts towards 12 hours of category A CPD.

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