Preventing Vicarious Trauma

Overview of Course

Develop insight into how to manage stress and be effective when helping highly traumatised people

For anyone working or volunteering with traumatised people

This training is run by our Clinical Director, Dr Katherine Cox

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’.

Outline

• The need to take care of ourselves in order to support others.

• What is vicarious trauma and ‘burn out’? What neuroscience tells us.

• Become more aware of how you and other people are feeling as a means to help develop a calmer atmosphere.

• Exploring how to establish and maintain a trauma informed workplace for yourself and others.

• Explore how past upsetting experiences can trigger us to feel the same thing is happening in certain similar situations. Find strategies to cope.

• Building resilience at work and outside. Exploring how we can expand our resilience.

• Connection and a calmer nervous system – considering how we can do this for ourselves as well as for our clients.

• Avoiding ‘burn out’- boundaries and strategies that allow you keep well over time.

Past Trainees Said:

• “The trainer was knowledgeable and passionate and able to talk around the topic and offer further opportunities to read or learn”.

• “Brilliant!”

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