Event
April 2008
Friday, April 25
A Mind-Body Approach to Trauma Resolution: Practical Skills for Caregivers on the Front Lines
| Time: | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm |
| Speaker: | Beth Wheeler, LICSW and Alaine D. Duncan, M.Ac, LAc., Dipl.Ac |
| Description: | Trauma has both emotional and physical effects. This workshop will address the relationship between trauma and the body. Participants will learn: * A basic understanding of what happens in the body's nervous system in trauma - when "too much, too fast" happens. * An orientation to work from "the body up" -- helping your clients complete and resolve trauma responses physiologically, mentally and emotionally. * Practical skills for more effective, and less stressful interactions with clients, ranging from improving intakes, managing crisis intervention and deepening ongoing long-term therapy. * To create a context for healing that embraces the systems clients live and work in -- their families, workplaces and communities as well as their natural environment. In the midst of working with trauma, it is easy to forget our own self-care as caregivers. We will offer suggestions of how to better self-manage and self-regulate as a caregiver, in the midst of traumatic information and stress. |
| Category: | Professionals |
