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Self-Regulation Skills for Helping Professionals
Challenges from work and daily life commonly impair healthy functioning, yet emergency and helping work requires the ability to maintain a state of calm, centred responsiveness. Training for helping professionals rarely includes learning how to identify and respond to indicators of disquiet within the self and research shows that emergency and helping professionals experience far greater rates of PTSD and PTSD type symptoms than the general population. This one day workshop...
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Trauma Informed Recovery Practice Toolkit
This two day interactive professional development training builds on the principles of trauma-informed care and practice. The training supports practitioners to understand and work within a relational approach with trauma survivors. A relational approach centres connection and collaboration, personal and interpersonal skills that may have been interrupted by trauma. The workshop takes account of neurobiological understandings and intersubjective values that support practitioners to...
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Narrative Therapy using the 'Heart and Wall' Tool
The heart and wall is a metaphor based on the Narrative Therapy ideas of ‘externalising’ the problem. This therapeutic tool is a visual externalisation that allows people to separate from problem saturated views of themselves which are limiting, and to re-connect or connect for the first time, with a view of themselves that gives acknowledgement and hope for the future. The ‘heart and the wall’ provides an opportunity for the helper to assist the person seeking help to engage in...
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Therapeutics of Trauma Informed Care and Management
Trauma Informed Care aims to meet the needs of trauma survivors via workers and programs becoming trauma-informed (Harris & Fallot, 2001). Maxine Harris (2004) describes a trauma-informed service system as a human services or health care system whose primary mission is altered by virtue of knowledge about trauma and the impact it has on the lives of consumers receiving services. This means looking at all aspects of work and programming through a trauma lens, constantly keeping in...
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Connecting Well During Challenging Phone and Online Communication
Much has changed over the last years in managing online and telephone communication with everchanging technology and the challenges of COVID 19. Face to face communication is often not an expected option and we are challenged to mange difficult conversations online and on the phone. This course will help you identify the key communication challenges in your work and how to address these. The pros and cons of different communication options will be explored with focusing on the...
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How am I trending? Social Media Addiction
Social media can be a powerful and valuable tool for play, communication, engagement, and promotion, offering convenience and communication opportunities in many instances. But social media can also raise questions around online safety, ethical implications (honesty/veracity) of its content, as well as problems such as compulsive or addictive use. This course will explore social media as an addiction. The scope of the course will range from social networking, social media, gaming,...
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