Preventing Vicarious Trauma
Audience:
East Midlands:
Resettlement Team Leader, Officer, Refugee Support Worker, UASC Team Manager, Social Worker, Personal Advisor.
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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.
For further enquiries please contact Anna Anderson at SMP@emcouncils.gov.uk
