Trauma Informed Practice Training

Learning objectives

An understanding of:

how brains develop, how trauma can damage that development and how resilience can help a person heal from trauma

• what are adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), what is their impact and their relationship to trauma
• the underlying principles behind trauma-informed approaches
• how to implement trauma-informed approaches when engaging with clients and colleagues
• how to boost personal resilience and practise self-care in the workplace and beyond

Typical core modules would cover:

• Brain development: How our minds develop and how this affects us today
• Trauma: What it is and the long-term impacts it can have
• Trauma-informed approaches: Principles and how to apply them in practice
• Self-care: Building resilience in the workplace
• Training procedures: How to make this change sustainable

The content of the day would include, but may not be limited to:

• Introduction to brain development and trauma
• List of traumatic events; positive, tolerable and toxic stress
• Impact of trauma on young people; lifetime impacts of childhood trauma
• Impact of trauma on clients; what trauma does to the client’s worldview
• Impacts of trauma and fear on interaction between the client population and authority
• How trauma behaviour looks from the provider’s perspective
• Protective factors, resilience and relationship with a key adult
• Trauma-informed practices in service delivery; why providers should know about trauma-informed care
• Successful examples of trauma-informed care, communities and services
• How to set up trauma-informed care: principles, framework, language
• Risk of re-traumatisation
• Vicarious trauma and care for staff; staff development in a trauma-informed care system
• Organisational assessment in trauma-informed care; what recruitment and training systems are required to set up a trauma-informed workforce

Trainer Biography

George Hosking, CEO and founder of WAVE Trust, will oversee the workshops. In addition to being a trained Clinical Criminologist with experience of working with victims of trauma both in prison and in the community, he has an Advanced Diploma in the Management of Psychological Trauma and degrees in Economics and Psychology. He has decades of experience delivering presentations and workshops in both the corporate world and the third sector, having worked previously with major companies as a business strategist focused on corporate turnaround and management development.