The training series will help people understand more about trauma, its impact on the people we work with (including carers, people who use services and colleagues), how to recognise and respond when someone is traumatised and how to look after ourselves.

If you’re an adult living in Surrey and Northeast Hampshire who would like an insight into trauma and trauma-informed approaches please visit the Recovery College

What order should I do the training in?

Whilst there is no specific order in which to do the training, there are modules that would be more helpful for staff to attend first. If you are new to trauma-informed approaches or would like a refresher, we would recommend starting with the Understanding Trauma-Informed Approach and the Understanding Trauma modules. These will give you a good foundation with which to start thinking about how to use the trauma-informed principles in your work, with your teams and service and will mean the other modules will make more sense.

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Foundation modules:

Understanding Trauma

Understanding Trauma is an interactive, co-produced workshop aimed to increase staff understanding of:

  • What we mean by trauma and why it is relevant to everyone

  • The prevalence of trauma in today’s society

  • The impact trauma has on people and those around them, which includes:

  • The impact of childhood trauma and attachment

  • The impact of trauma on the body and the brain

  • How people might cope with trauma (including dissociation, self-harming behaviours and more)

  • And recovery from trauma

“I found it all really interesting. Particularly the subjective nature of trauma and reflecting on the idea that trauma can come in many different forms and can be ongoing rather than one off. It was also interesting to learn how this relates to various outcomes including mental health diagnoses” 

Understanding Trauma-Informed Approach (TIA)

This is an interactive, co-produced workshop aimed to increase staff understanding of:

• What is a Trauma-Informed Approach (TIA) and why it is relevant to you and your service

• The 4 key assumptions and 6 principles of a TIA

• How to adopt a Trauma-Informed Approach (TIA) in the work you do

• The benefits of Trauma-Informed ways of working to clients, staff, and wider systems

• The barriers to adopting a TIA and how to overcome them

We recommend attending the session on “What is Trauma” first if you do not already have a good understanding of the causes of trauma and its impact on individuals.

“The delivery of the training helped my understanding of what trauma is and how this can impact significantly on the service user and families we support” 

Advanced modules

Leading & Influencing Trauma-Informed Change

The workshop will be highly interactive and include input from an independent specialist, small groups and whole-group conversations to share insights and ideas:

• Psychological dimensions of change and transition

• Identifying key people who can influence success

• Influencing engagement with the trauma-informed care agenda

• Applying transformational tools and techniques

“I felt the day was very informative and inspiring, has given me confidence and space to consider the direction of discussion” 

 

A Trauma-Informed Approach with Refugees and Asylum Seekers

This is an interactive, co-produced workshop providing learning around:

• A recap of key points on understanding trauma and Trauma-Informed Practice

• The types of trauma Asylum Seekers and Refugees may have experienced

• The impact of trauma on Asylum Seekers and Refugees, including how people might present when traumatised

• How professionals can take a Trauma-Informed Approach to support Asylum Seekers and Refugees

• Local and national sources of support for Asylum Seekers and Refugees, and people supporting them

“Today's training was very informative and helpful to think around the prejudice for asylum seekers and displaced people” 

All Interactions Matter

This is a module about those momentary interactions with others (it could be staff, people who use services or carers) that we all have daily, why they matter so much and how to apply Trauma-Informed Approach (TIA) Principles in all of the interactions that we have.

These interactions might be short in nature, challenging in some way (e.g., distressing phone calls, managing appointments, interactions in passing/ public spaces/ waiting rooms), very impactful and possibly the most important interactions of someone’s day.

This is a highly interactive and co-produced workshop that aims to help people understand:

  • What momentary interactions are in your own roles
  • The significance these interactions can have on a person (inc. yourself)
  • How you can use the Six Principles of a TIA to overcome common challenges creatively
  • Why a TIA is relevant in all situations and can be used by all people (regardless of role)

“I thought this was a really helpful, thoughtful and important session...everyone should attend!” 

Trauma-Informed Approaches to Risk Assessment and Management

This workshop aims to help you:

  • Realise how trauma can lead to risk
  • Recognise risk behaviours through a trauma-informed lens
  • Recognise how risk assessment can be re-traumatising
  • Recognise aspects of risk that are challenging for staff to manage
  • Respond to risk assessment and management using TI principles
  • Manage risk in a TI way to resist re-traumatisation

“Very relaxed presentation and really interesting discussions.  So helpful to have people from a range of services giving opinions” 

Trauma-Informed Supervision

This interactive training aims to support staff to understand:

  • Why trauma-informed supervision is relevant to you
  • The importance of trauma-informed supervision for staff, services and organisations
  • Ways you might already be supervising in a trauma-informed way

What would trauma-informed supervision look like, including consideration of:

  • Creating a safe supervisory environment
  • Acknowledging trauma and its impact on the supervisor, supervisee, and clients you might be discussing
  • Approaching challenges in supervision in a trauma-informed way
  • Obstacles you might experience in following trauma-informed principles in supervision, and how they may be overcome

 

A Trauma-Informed Approach with Carers

This is an interactive, coproduced workshop aimed at increasing your understanding of trauma-informed practice, in your workplace, to support carers.

  • Who and what is a carer: the facts, hidden nature and prevalence of caring in society
  • The types of trauma somebody in a caring role may have experienced and be experiencing
  • The impact of trauma on people in a caring role and what this might look like
  • How we can use a trauma-informed approach to work with and support carers
  • What difference a trauma-informed approach can make on an individual, team, organisational and systemic basis

The session will include information relating to children and young people, and adult carers of working age and older.

Trauma-Informed Approaches for supporting Autistic people

This is an interactive, coproduced workshop aimed to increase staff understanding of:

• What is trauma, trauma-informed care and autism (brief recap)

• The interplay between autism and trauma

• The types of trauma autistic people may have experienced

• The impact of trauma on autistic people

• How professionals can take a trauma-informed approach to support autistic people, and the value of doing so

“Thank you, it was really useful to have time to re-focus on this. I work with learning disabled and autistic young people, but as professionals we can get so busy that we do not always reflect on HOW work is offered / completed as much as we should. Thank you!” 

Responding to trauma and resisting re-traumatisation

This workshop aims to help you:

  • Consider the 2 assumptions of a trauma-informed approach: “respond” and “resist re-traumatisation” and why these are important
  • How to respond using trauma-informed principles
  • Explore how services can re-traumatise (unintentionally)
  • How a trauma-informed approach can reduce re-traumatisation

“The training is fantastic! These have been really helpful for my role.” 

Applying trauma-informed principles to ourselves and our teams

This is an interactive, co-produced workshop aimed at increasing your understanding of trauma-informed practice and its application to yourself and your team.

  • What is well-being and working hard?
  • The impact of the role on staff
  • Recognising vicarious trauma/compassion fatigue/burnout
  • Why change is difficult
  • Applying Trauma-informed principles
  • Control and Influence

“Extremely helpful, validating and thought-provoking training that has left me feeling cared for and valued” 

Further information about the training modules

Duration:  

  • online workshops are 3.5 hours 
  • face-to-face workshops are 7 hours.

Format: Unless stated, the session will be held via Microsoft Teams or Zoom, the link will be emailed to you a week before. 

Booking: Please submit an application form to request training.  You will receive an email with the outcome and information on how to book your place when we have reviewed your application. 

Please book your space using the name and contact details of the person attending, using a work email address. Multiple bookings made under the same details will be cancelled.