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Online Modules
- Creative Heart Healing provides training for health professionals, educators, support workers and carers through the Understanding and Working with Survivors of Childhood Trauma online modules. Learn how childhood trauma impacts the brain and why creative strategies work to heal trauma.
- The introductory modules cover the science of how trauma impacts the brain and basic strategies for stabilising and supporting clients and students with trauma and creative ways to support their recovery.
- Modules 1 & 2: Effects of trauma on the brain
- Module 3: Attachment and relationships
- Module 4: Trauma informed practice
- Module 5: Strategies and tools for stage one of recovery
- Module 6: Vicarious traumatisation and self-care
- The advanced modules provide more indepth information on how trauma impacts individuals and communities and more extensive creative strategies for working through trauma.
- Advanced Module 1: The impact of trauma on genetic expression
- Advanced Module 2: Intergenerational trauma and First Nations People
- Advanced Module 3: Phased treatment of trauma
- Advanced Module 4: Bottom-up tools and therapies for stage 2 - processing
- Advanced Module 5: Top-down tools and therapies for stage 2 - processing
- Advanced Module 6: Creativity and self-care
Participants work at their own pace to complete the modules. The introductory online modules are equivalent to 10 hours of continuing professional development, and the optional Advanced Modules are a further 8 hours. Certificates for professional development points are available after verification of satisfactory completion of the modules.
Purchase both sets of modules together to receive a $56 discount.
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Face-to-Face Workshops
The face-to-face workshops present the same material as the online modules. Face-to-face workshops can be delivered at your workplace or externally. Contact difrost@creativehearthealing.com.au for further information and to discuss your requirements. Minimum number of staff participants is 15.
Understanding and Working with Survivors of Childhood Trauma workshop is designed for carers, support workers, therapists and educators who work with children, young people and adults with challenging mental health issues or behaviours that have arisen as a result of childhood trauma.
Working with survivors is demanding due to their often high levels of reactivity, difficulties with self-regulation, problems with trust, numerous triggers and sometimes low self-awareness. Complex trauma also has one of the lowest rates of recovery success across many therapeutic modalities and trauma practitioners are prone to frequent burn out or vicarious traumatisation.
This workshop brings the good news that recovery from childhood trauma is possible when survivors are empowered and understand and have people around them who understand what's happening in their brains and who also have a range of useful tools and strategies that can help survivors calm their nervous systems and re-wire their brains.
Day 1 - Introductory Workshop
Day 1 of the workshop provides carers, support workers, therapists and educators with the latest research on brain science and focusses on applying trauma informed principals to assist survivors build more trusting relationships and calm their nervous systems. Day 1 content includes:
- The effects of childhood trauma on brain development including past and recent research into how dysfunctional environments and traumatic events in a child's life influence reactive brain wiring and brain chemistry, affect physical health through the vagus nerve and set the mold for a mistrusting brain
- The impact of early attachment on how the child, young person or adult relates to others including how the pattern of insecure, disorganised attachment style develops in trauma survivors and the importance of developing a trusting relationship with your client or student
- The five principals of Trauma Informed Practice - Safety, Trustworthiness, Empowerment, Collaboration and Choice (Fallot and Harris, 2009) and how these can be applied in your work with survivors
- Strategies and tools for assisting your clients to calm their nervous system and improve self-regulation including creative right hemisphere strategies targeting trauma wounds stored in the right side of the brain
- The difference between vicarious traumatisation and burnout and the importance of proactive self-care
Day 2 - Advanced Workshop
Day 2 of the workshop is for carers, support workers, therapists and educators who would like more in-depth knowledge of the impact of trauma on individuals and communities as well as strategies and tools to support survivors towards recovery. Day 2 builds on the content of Day 1 and includes:
- The impact of trauma on genetic expression (epigenetics) and how trauma effects can be passed on to future generations
- The intergenerational impact of the trauma of colonisation on Indigenous communities and community based recovery strategies
- The 3 phases of trauma treatment - Safety and Stabilisation, Processing the Trauma and Integration (Judith Herman, 1997)
- The use of creative strategies to assist in Phase 2 of recovery (processing the trauma)
- Therapeutic treatment of trauma including a range of different strategies and therapies that have found to be helpful for recovery.