AFFILIATE LEARNING

Trauma-informed Fundamentals Workshop

Looking through a trauma-informed lens will change the way you relate to the world. In this short workshop, your empathy levels are bound to soar! If you have a family member, friend college, or employee that may have experienced trauma, you’ll start to understand their experience AND discover ways to best support them, while maintaining healthy boundaries.

Topics covered will include:
What is trauma really?
Trauma has become the latest buzzword. We will cut through the noise and get to the point.
Where is the intersection of trauma and mental health
Learn when mental health conditions may have origins of trauma and when to dig deeper.

How does trauma show up?
Discover clear markers that indicate possible trauma. We will look at physical symptoms, mental & emotional symptoms & relational symptoms.

Toxic or traumatized?
We are quick to label someone as toxic. Discover how trauma may often be behind someone’s bad behavior
How to relate to a traumatized person
Learn how to relate in ways that have ‘intent not to traumatize’ and may help de-escalate a trauma response.

We will look at three categories:
1) Anxiety attack
2) Silence & disconnection
3) Boundary breaches/misconduct listed here to find out more about how the course is structured and what is offered.

Trauma-informed Facilitation Workshop

About the Trauma-informed Facilitation Workshop:
In this online workshop, Executive Director Natalia Rachel will answer the important questions: ‘what is trauma-informed care, really?’ AND ‘As a therapist/facilitator how can I be sure that I’m engaging with a trauma-informed approach'.

You’ll leave this workshop equipped with knowledge in the following areas:
Definitions
Clarify clear definitions of trauma, relational trauma, abuse, neglect
Threat responses & their relational markers
Overview of polyvagal theory – fight, flight, freeze, ventral vagal, miscalibration & the faux window of tolerance and how to identify them in a client
Fragmentation & Dissociation
Learn what happens in the brain, body, and psyche when a traumatic event is not processed
The fawn response
Understand the tendency to seek safety through self-abandonment and how this may show up in a client or group session
Re-traumatization & regression
Understanding and spotting signs of re-traumatization and how to pro-actively avoid these
Relational resonance & boundaries
Understanding transference and the importance of a relational approach in trauma-informed care

Trauma-informed Group Facilitation Workshop

In this online workshop, you’ll learn the essential elements of trauma-informed group facilitation.

This will ensure that you can:
- Work with intent not to re-traumatize.
- Spot signs of trauma.
- Respond to individuals without disrupting the group.
- Contain the potential domino effect of trauma in groups.
- Engage with trauma-sensitive language.
- Provide supportive self-care tools to your participants.
- Understand when touch can help and when touch can harm.

These are the key areas that we will cover:
- Embodied trauma: through authentic sharing, we will understand the way trauma lives and breathes in the body, the psyche, relationships, and groups.
- Relationship as the crucible for recovery - we will explore the often relational origins of trauma and how to harness our relationship with our clients/participants as a means for healing.
- Somatics - explore the mind-body connection, the split that happens as a result of trauma, and an approach for re-integration.
- Fragmentation and unexpressed desires - working with the impulses and expressions that are not safe to express.
- Somatic shapes for safety - working with shapes/poses will help if trauma is triggered.
- Touch for safe containment and grounding - how to use touch to help if someone is triggered.
- Affirmations for safety.
- Self-care solutions for trauma triggers.
- Resources and further support - where to send someone of trauma has been triggered.
- Boundaries in groups - understanding the function of group work, interpersonal boundaries, and your boundary as a facilitator.

Trauma-informed Relational Somatics Online

Trauma-informed Relational Somatics

TIRS is an integrative somatic professional development training that focuses on attunement above all, and blends talk and touch therapy to support clients recovering from trauma, and moving into post-traumatic growth, and transformation.

Trauma-Informed Relational Somatics is the foundation training created by somatic therapist, Natalia Rachel.

Certification by Illuma Health provided, pending post-training assessment and case submissions.
 

Experiential Training

As this is an experiential training, participants should come ready to explore their own stories through vulnerable sharing and somatic exploration. As always, it is through our embodied experience, that we can best integrate our learnings and go on to share in the world!

Who would benefit from this training?

• Talk therapists/counselors seeking to integrate a trauma-informed and somatic approach to care.

• Somatic practitioners interested in deepening their touch skills and somatic listening capabilities.

• Movement & Embodiment facilitators interested in cultivating a trauma-informed practice and enhancing 1-1 space holding capabilities.

• Health professionals who want to expand their toolkit and adopt a trauma-informed approach to care.