Outcomes:
This training course will equip delegates with sound theoretical knowledge as well as practical skills to provide therapeutic interventions to adult clients who have experienced trauma. Delegates will be provided with theoretical understanding of the impact of trauma on the body and how to work with the body to facilitate healing.
Objectives:
- To provide delegates with a theoretical understanding of how trauma impacts the body as well as the mind.
- To equip delegates with skills for working with the body as well as the mind to overcome the impact of trauma.
- To equip delegates with a sound theoretical knowledge base and practical skills for working with individual and community trauma using the Community Resiliency Model and Trauma Resiliency Model™ developed by the Trauma resource institute.
- To provide delegates with theoretical knowledge of the polyvagal theory and practical skills based on the work of Deb Dana to apply the theory in practice.
- To assist delegates in implementing legally and ethically sound interventions to ensure service delivery of the highest ethical standard to trauma survivors.
- To equip delegates with practical skills based on the polyvagal theory and Community Resiliency Model™ to prevent burnout.
- To provide delegates with a skills to restore nervous system regulation.
- To equip delegates with knowledge and understanding of process trauma and skills for intervening with clients who have experienced trauma of this nature.
- To equip delegates with understanding of domestic violence and to provide practical skills for working therapeutically with clients who have experienced this trauma.
- To examine legal and ethical aspects of domestic violence.
- To equip delegates with theoretical knowledge and practical skill in providing interventions for clients dealing with shame.
- To provide delegates with theoretical understanding of emotional incest and adult survivors of sexual abuse and practical interventions for working with the client.
- To equip delegates with knowledge and understanding of burnout and to provide skills to protect the counsellor.
This is an in-depth year-long training programme based on sound research on body-based interventions that will equip delegates to remain resilient and self-regulated while intervening somatically and effectively with clients who have suffered a wide range of traumas.
We are privileged to partner with leading experts in the field of trauma, namely Elaine Miller-Karas and her team making her internationally acclaimed training available to delegates at Humanitas as part of a broader training in working with trauma.