CREATING TRAUMA-INFORMED STRENGTH-BASED SCHOOLS | In-house Training

In-house training: If you have a group of staff we can arrange training at your workplace. Email us.

Where Neuroscience & Psychology meet Pedagogy

This one day workshop is designed for educators including childcare, primary and secondary school, who are interested in becoming trauma informed and taking a strength-based approach to support student wellbeing and academic resilience.

This workshop covers:

• Trauma psychoeducation for school staff based on the latest understandings from neuroscience

  • Adverse Childhood Experiences, Simple and Complex Trauma, Intergenerational Trauma and Resilience

  • The impact on young people (brain and body, emotions and affect dysregulation, shame, self-concept, learning, cognitive capacity, memory, language, need for control, attachment and relationship difficulties) and how this plays out in school settings

  • Polyvagal theory in the school; understanding what happens to a young person’s nervous system and what to do to support student regulation and relational engagement

• Strategies to enhance engagement and learning

  • Understanding the window of tolerance, what this looks like in the classroom, and strategies for widening the window

  • Creating safety, including relational safety, for calm, engaged learning environments using neurobiology, mentalizing, and a PACEful approach

  • Creating contagious calm using understandings from neuroscience, attachment theory and family therapy

  • Responding to dysregulation in helpful ways that support the development of relationships and resilience

  • Providing positive, trauma-informed behaviour support

• Strength-based approach

  • Understanding the healing power of the classroom and school

  • Knowledge and understanding to support young people to develop psychological resources and growth-oriented ways of thinking

• Vicarious Trauma and Self Care

  • Understanding the impact of working with young people impacted by trauma

  • Individual and collective self-care, including hacks for educators for harnessing the power of their own nervous system

This workshop can be broken down into a series of smaller workshops to fit in with school professional development schedules.

Audience: for educational professionals at all levels & any professional that applies attachment theory and behavioural/developmental/neuro-science to their classrooms.