Learning the Language of Trauma

This half day workshop is designed for frontline workers such as Police, Emergency Department staff, Paramedics and Fire Officers.
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Renowned Trauma specialist Dr Bruce Perry tells us that people experience psychological trauma in relationship and therefore trauma needs to be healed in relationship. It would be unusual for a person to travel through their life without experiencing a traumatic event. There is a difference however between experiencing a traumatic incident and being traumatised. What creates the situation where an individual becomes traumatised by a traumatic incident? It is the response of the people around them that can either create the environment for harm rather than healing.
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This short workshop provides practitioners with an overview of the neuroscience of trauma and how trauma develops. It is not enough though for frontline staff to be trauma informed however, they need to know how to be trauma responsive. Angharad will teach participants some key language and ways they can respond quickly to patients and victims in order to lay a foundation for healing from trauma.
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This workshop is interactive and will provide participants with hands-on skills they can apply.