Understanding The Long Limbs Of Trauma – 16th and 17th of October

Day 2 – ‘Caring for Myself’ – addresses the parallel process of health professionals caring for themselves personally and professionally, whilst simultaneously educating and guiding their clients towards embodied self-care.

Outcomes of Day 2 – participants will:

• Identify principles for self-care, reducing burnout and vicarious trauma professionally.
• Demonstrate awareness of ‘bottom up’ and ‘top down’ strategies for self-regulation and their impact on neurobiology
• Expand their knowledge on the science of habits, becoming aware of how integral new habit development is to long term healing and neuroplasticity
• Build personal interoceptive awareness as well as gaining strategies to assist clients in connecting to their own capacity for interoception
• Understand the need to establish a ‘SEEDS’ approach to the foundation of self-care – with this training including knowledge and experiential exercises addressing all components (Sleep, Exercise, Education, Diet and Social Connection).
• Gain knowledge about the causes of flashbacks and 90/10 reactions – including practical means of managing and lessening their impact and frequency.
• Be equipped with knowledge regarding settling the nervous system somatically through breath work, shaking, intentional sighing and Shinrin Yoku.