This training is for schools, businesses, universities, and other industry professionals who wish to learn and apply the central tenets of a trauma-informed approach to their professional roles. Being trauma-informed is essential to establishing strong working relationships with supervisees, colleagues, and leaders, and promoting a healthy workplace. In this interactive session tailored to your team, you will learn about trauma and how its consequences might manifest in the work environment, identify healthy leadership qualities, and learn ways to respond effectively and empathically. Learn how to prevent burnout by implementing boundaries and self-care, and improve your confidence as a trauma-informed supervisor and/or employee.

Most trained mental health professionals know the signs and symptoms of post-traumatic stress, and how to address it in therapy. This presentation dives deeper on the neuroscience of trauma – what happens in and to the brain during and after a traumatic event. You will be able to define trauma and the various types of traumatic experiences, understand the nervous system and threat response, learn the major areas of the brain that are affected by trauma in the short and long-term, and even learn about the effects of traumatic experiences on memory. Healing, recovery, and post-traumatic growth will also be covered.

This training discusses traumatic events, experiences, and aftereffects of trauma on the brain, body, and belief systems. Therapists will learn about trauma and the emotional brain, and how traumatic memories are formed, stored, and reactivated. You will gain a deeper understanding of how these memories lead to mistaken beliefs (felt sense beliefs) following trauma. Memory reconsolidation is a powerful process that can help individuals update these painful, traumatic memories so that they no longer trigger high emotional reactivity or the same mistaken felt sense beliefs they once did. Participants will learn the research behind memory reconsolidation along with the necessary components and steps required to update and resolve traumatic memories. In addition, this training will introduce, explain, and demonstrate various memory reconsolidation interventions and techniques from the cutting-edge professionals doing this important work. Clinicians will walk away with increased confidence in how they can adapt their current therapeutic approach to incorporate these highly effective memory reconsolidation techniques, and help their clients achieve lasting transformational change.

Sexual violence is a painful traumatic event that affects young adults at alarming rates. The trauma of sexual violence is like a rock thrown into calm waters – causing vast ripple effects to an individual’s physical, emotional, psychological, and interpersonal life. However, healing and recovery is the norm following trauma exposure, and clinicians wield the knowledge, power, and skills to help victims and survivors move toward healing. In this training, participants will learn the scope of the problem of sexual violence among adolescents, college students, and young adults, and examine the common symptoms, consequences, and aftereffects of these traumatic events. This training will illuminate how recovery and healing from sexual assault trauma is a multi-faceted, multi-stage process that requires a holistic, trauma-informed, and evidence-based framework. Participants will be able to identify, learn, and apply multimodal therapeutic interventions - including an opportunity to practice with a clinical tool co-developed by the presenter - that they can immediately begin integrating into their clinical work.