Preventing Vicarious Trauma
Audience:
East Midlands:
For any of our Local Authority members and partners working with traumatised people within our region and SMP agreed VCSE Partners list below:
- SMP_VCSE Partners Jun.25
- Commissioned by EMC member please state Local Authority when registering in additional information.
Please select the appropriate ticket when booking
Aim of the Workshop:
This workshop is designed to develop insight into how to manage stress and be effective when helping highly traumatised people.
Supporting this client group can have a serious impact on well-being and capacity to cope; work in this field can lead to vicarious trauma and ‘burn out’. There will be a PowerPoint presentation with opportunities for discussion and sharing experience of helping refugees.
Objectives:
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The need to take care of ourselves in order to support others.
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What is vicarious trauma and ‘burn out’? What neuroscience tells us.
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Become more aware of how you and other people are feeling as a means to help develop a calmer atmosphere.
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Exploring how to establish and maintain a trauma informed workplace for yourself and others.
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Explore how past upsetting experiences can trigger us to feel the same thing is happening in certain similar situations. Find strategies to cope.
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Building resilience at work and outside. Exploring how we can expand our resilience.
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Connection and a calmer nervous system – considering how we can do this for ourselves as well as for our clients.
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Avoiding ‘burn out’- boundaries and strategies that allow you keep well over time.
Facilitator:
Katherine Cox, Clinical Director at Trauma Foundation South West. Is an integrative psychotherapist and supervisor with experience and interest in working with communities experiencing multiple and intersectional oppression. I have spent most of my professional life in the voluntary sector and am committed to the wellbeing of both service users and those who work to support them.
Booking Policy:
Terms and Conditions when booking our events: EMC Event booking and cancellation Policy
For further enquiries please contact Anna Anderson at SMP@emcouncils.gov.uk
