VAADA - Trauma Responsive Practice

This is a full day workshop with Jen Thompson, a psychotherapist and trainer passionate about creating welcoming, hopeful, and trauma informed service systems.

Trauma Responsive Practice is foundational training for AOD and Mental Health workers that builds on the Introduction to Trauma Informed Care e-learning.

This workshop will explore the following concepts and will bring them to life with experiential exercises and discussion:

• Creating safety and the felt experience of safety

• Understanding trauma in the context of substance use

• Bringing body awareness into our work

• Understanding trauma informed care principles and applying to our work

• Understanding Polyvagal Theory

• The Zone of fabulousness

• Collective Care and Solidarity Teams

   

This training is open to workers employed in a Victorian State-funded Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) and Mental Health service only.

Students on placement or internships and AOD/MH workers outside of Victoria.