Delivery: Face-to-face | Duration: One day
Trauma is a natural response to an event that is beyond an individual’s capacity to cope, and while not everyone responds in the same way, the impacts can be all-encompassing, effecting a person’s physical, mental and social wellbeing.
More and more government, business and community services are learning about trauma to help inform the way they do business, and as individuals delivering these services, it is important that we understand the impact that we can have on others.
The first in a series of three one-day trauma-informed learning workshops, Introduction to Trauma will help you to begin understanding how and why people are affected by trauma, as well as why having an understanding of trauma is so important to the services you deliver.
During this workshop, you will get introduced to trauma and will then have the opportunity to continue building your awareness of why understanding trauma, and laying a trauma-informed lens on your processes can help to improve outcomes for yourself the business and the community.
What you will learn:
In this session, you will explore what trauma is, how it develops and what it does to a person living with trauma. Let’s go beyond the diagnostic criteria and talk about poly vagal theory, the relationship trauma has with epigenetics, the common impacts on a person’s brain and body and how that plays out in terms of behaviour, social skills, self-regulation and more.
What you will walk away with:
- an awareness of trauma and just how prevalent it is
- an awareness of the different ways trauma can develop and how it changes a person’s body and brain, behaviour, social skills, self-regulation and more
- the opportunity to learn more and think about how trauma might show up in your workplace through colleagues, clients, stakeholders, and the way you work
- an understanding of trauma through an intersectional lens
Presenter - Holly Davies-Freeman (Lifeline Tasmania)
Holly has many years of experience working in counselling, nursing, and training roles where she has consolidated and aligned her skills and knowledge with the most up-to-date research in all areas of behavioural sciences. As well as working for Lifeline Tasmania, Holly has her own consultancy business that specialises in behavioural change and chronic disease management, as well as holistic, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing.
Who should attend?
This workshop is for anyone who wants to learn more about trauma and its impact on individuals, families, communities and organisations. Participation in this workshop is strongly encouraged for anyone who leads other people, works in a front-line service role, write policies and/or works closely with the community.
Please note, this workshop must be completed before attending other courses in the trauma-informed learning series - Trauma Informed Practice or Trauma Informed Organisation.
Upcoming sessions
 16 April 2024
|  Launceston
|  09:30am - 04:30pm
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| 29 May 2024
| Hobart
| 09:30am - 04:30pm | |
Not seeing the session dates you want?
You can register your interest in another session below or request an in-house session just for your team.
If anything raises issues for you or someone around you, you can reach out to the following services:
- Your agency’s Employee Assistance Program provider
- Lifeline – 13 11 14
- Beyond Blue – 1300 224 636
- 1800RESPECT – 1800 737 732
- Suicide Call Back Service – 1300 659 467
- MensLine Australia – 1300 789 978
- If you are experiencing an emergency: call 000