Time: 9:00am to 4:30pm
(Registration from 8:45am)
Lunch, morning and afternoon tea will be provided.

Cost

Early Bird Price - $310

Group (3+) - $300

Professional Member** - $290

Standard Price - $330

*The early bird price applies to all bookings for workshops made 8 weeks or more ahead of the training date.
**You must be logged in as a Blue Knot Foundation professional member to be eligible for this price. Click here to become a professional member.

Trauma Awareness in Practice 

This practical training focuses on the implementation of all five trauma-informed principles and builds on the Foundations in Trauma Awareness.
 
The importance of connection and collaboration between worker and client is key for resilience and recovery. Building safe relationships with worker and service is critical. Embedding the trauma informed principles into everyday practice creates the safety for healing to begin.

This program looks at practical skills to create a safe base to work from and to understand signs of potential trauma and apply the foundational knowledge of complex trauma to your work.

By participating in this training program, participants will:

• Explore dimensions of safety and its applications
• Discuss ways of introducing trauma sensitive conversations 
• Identify key skills needed to apply a trauma lens when working with our clients
• Apply the five trauma informed principles to the workplace and identify key areas to build upon in practice 

The Foundations for Building Trauma Awareness is a prerequisite for registrants so as to ground themselves in the understanding of trauma and its impacts. Alternatively registrants must have attended a similar training with this as previously gained knowledge. 

Material presented in the training will draw on research including from Blue Knot Foundation's Practice Guidelines for Treatment of Complex Trauma and Trauma Informed Care and Service Delivery and other relevant research. 

Who should attend?

This training program is not clinically focussed and will suit those who provide services to people who have experienced trauma. It is applicable to diverse sectors including, but not limited to, health, mental health, alcohol and other drugs services, community, legal, justice, domestic and family violence, child protection, emergency, disability, housing, settlement, and employment services.

It is suggested that participants attend Foundations in Trauma Awareness to ground themselves in the understanding of trauma if this is not previously gained knowledge or for a timely refresher.

We are happy to announce online chat to handle your inquiries regarding Education and Training, available during the hours of 9 am -  5pm AEST / AEDT Monday to Friday. Outside these hours an email will be sent to our training support team, or you can directly email training@blueknot.org.au.