Facet One: Dynamic Psycho-Educational Training
This core skills training is a prerequisite for any advanced training.
Cost: $ 1,250.00 for a half-day training, $2,500.00 for a full day training
We raise awareness through training that teaches workers to track secondary trauma in themselves and others. These are half-day and full-day training sessions which focus on both cognitive and experiential learning. This can be provided for an entire staff or work force. We have worked with groups from 6 up to 75 people.
In this training you will learn how secondary trauma impacts the entire brain and body structure, and secondary trauma interventions that are designed to have maximal effectiveness in targeting all of the zones that are impacted by the induced trauma. This includes:
Increased awareness of the body and conscious body practices
The development of boundaries between personal and professional world and the self and the client
The development of supportive group processes in the work environment that legitimates the ubiquitous nature of secondary trauma.
We have organized these resources into a Toolbox of Resiliency. Resiliency is the goal of secondary trauma work. It is key to recognize the essential traumatic nature of doing effective human service work and then to develop a set of individualized resources that allow workers to effectively be resilient in the face of this traumatic onslaught. Resiliency does not just limit the toxicity of trauma, but it creates the potential to transform toxic distress into strength. The goal of resiliency practice is to create post-traumatic growth, meaning that the life and body of the worker is enhanced and strengthened, not merely salvaged from the toxicity of trauma.