What's Resilience-Based Trauma Training about? Resilience and trauma are two sides of the same coin. Building resilience is a key trauma-resistance and recovery strategy. It's what helps us handle life's trials, tests and setbacks, and acts as a stress buffer and preventative. Treating trauma and building resilience are essential for healthy workplaces, healthy teams and a healthy life. Whether slow or sudden and whatever triggers it – accident, work-load stress, toxic work culture, natural disaster or other anxiety-creating events – trauma distresses and disconnects us, drains our resilience and well-being, and plays havoc with our nervous system and ability to function effectively. Trauma ignored and left to fester untreated can keep on triggering distressing physical, emotional and mental side-effects that make life and work hard-going and can damage us and impact others around us. [ Read more about resilience and handling trauma at work ] The idea of Resilience-Based Trauma Training (RBTT) is to turn the tables on trauma. The conventional approach has mostly been to let people get traumatised, see if they handle it, then help those not coping to deal with it afterwards, post-trauma. A resilience-based approach aims to give everyone an idea of what may happen to them with trauma, then help them build resilience and learn a few trauma-handling resistance strategies, as a buffer or preventative. It normalises trauma reactions, effects and behaviours that have customarily been seen as abnormal. Instead of thinking: "What's wrong with me?" a resilience-based approach asks: "What happened to you and what strengths and resources can you call on to help get you through this? Fortunately, resilience skills can be learned. Understanding the link between what goes on in potentially traumatic situations and how we typically react can become a first line of defence and self-help. Learning a few Trauma Resistance First-Aid Strategies enables you to manage yourself better in the face of trauma and be able to also help others spend more time in their 'resilience zone' and less time out of it in trauma.

Building Resilience – Resisting Trauma... We can all learn ways to train our brain to strengthen resilience – to get more in the tank to cope with hard times, unanticipated incidents and acute stress at work. RBTT helps me learn to manage my own reactions by providing tools and personal strategies to use to get me out of trauma back into my 'resilient zone' and to regain my emotional balance. It's emotional self-managing. RBTT helps managers and supervisors in their role as emotional care-takers, reflect on how our culture handles acute stress and trauma and learn some simple ways to be able to talk things over and assist staff and colleagues who may be having a hard time of it.

Compelling reasons to come along to this hands-on clinic

	You recognise that work-based trauma is a drain on your people and productivity
	You care about the well-being of your staff, colleagues and mates and want to help them
	You want to better fulfil your role as emotional caretaker and trauma-support
	You want to make it safe for anyone feeling the effects of trauma to feel safe to step up and ask for help
	Learn a range of brain-based strategies to manage, resist and reduce trauma by building-up your resilience

Resilience Based Trauma Training -- What does it cover? There's a few jobs that probably aren't listed in your job description as a supervisor or manager. Handling trauma - toxic emotions and troubled behaviour that often comes along with it, and helping staff get through and recover from it, are some of them. This targetted 1-day program aims to increase your awareness about trauma and resilience and learn some ways to decrease some of the potentially draining and harmful effects trauma can have on you and others. It gives you a set of valuable trauma first-aid tools, tips and strategies to reduce and resist trauma reactions, build-up your own reserves of resilience and strengthen your leader role as emotional caretaker and trauma-supporter! Resilience-Based Trauma Training can help you: Understand and carry out your role as emotional care-taker and trauma-support Be alert to signs of trauma and better able to identify those who might have picked up a bit Assist you to talk over, guide and help people who may be suffering a touch of trauma Show people ways to get back into their Resilient Zone when trauma knocks them out of it Facilitate people to use a few Trauma Resistance Management Strategies to help them stay afloat and keep functioning Encourage people to build their resiliency and put together a Trauma Resistance Action Plan Identify when to refer people to more specialised trauma-counselling services   Note: This is a first-aid clinic for trauma-support and is not intended as a substitute for professional trauma-counselling

Resilience Based Trauma Training -- What does it cover?

A crucial outcome of this clinic is helping leaders learn a few practical tools to be able to assist staff and colleagues who may be having a hard time of handling trauma and stress at work....

We'll show you 5 self-help Trauma-Resistors and Resilience-Builders you can use to help you feel more in control and assist others more effectively. You'll also learn about:

Resilience and Trauma at Work Trauma triggers, types, events and 'at-risk' factors Bodily alarms and nervous system overload Using the Resilience-Zone tool to self-monitor Using the Resilience-Tester Tool to track yourself Trauma-Mapping: how brain, body & emotions react Trauma-Tracker self-check: tell-tale signs & symptoms Trauma first-aid - 5 self-help resistance strategies Re-grounding, recollecting, re-balancing, refocusing Support-seeking, engagement & staying connected Preparing a Trauma Resistance Action Plan

 

  You receive a Trauma Self-Help Toolkit and Leader's Support Handbook.

  You also get a chance to purchase copies of our Trauma First-Aid Pocket Guide for Handling Trauma and Building Resilience for your staff back at work.

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