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Workshops for Service Providers
Trauma Informed
Klinic Community Health Centre with funding from the Department of Health developed a two-day training and a half-day workshop designed to enhance the capacity of organizations and individual clinicians to deliver trauma-informed services and individual counselling.
1) Trauma Informed Care Workshop (1/2 day)
This half-day interactive workshop leads participants in a conversation about what is trauma, what it means to be trauma-informed and how to integrate a trauma-informed perspective into our everyday interactions.
Upon Request – presented to individual service organizations and their employees
Half-day workshop: $50 honorarium
For more information and to schedule a Trauma-Informed Care workshop please contact
Cheryl Matthews - cmatthews@klinic.mb.ca or 784-4099.
At Klinic – basic information for the general public; pre-registration is required
Time: 12:00 – 4:00 PM Registration: $10.00
2011 Dates: May 25, June 15, September 21, October 19, November 23
2012 Dates: January 25, February 8, March 27
To register for a ½ day session at Klinic please contact
Leslie Debrecen - ldebrecen@klinic.mb.ca or 784-4206.
2) Becoming Trauma Informed: Mind/Body Approaches To Creating Connection (2-day)
This two-day interactive and dynamic training is for service providers with training and experience in counselling, and a basic understanding of the counselling and recovery process. The training invites participants to explore new paradigms and challenge the traditional understanding of the recovery and healing process. This training shifts the focus away from a position of "What is wrong with you?" to one that seeks to understand "What has happened to you and how can I help?" This exploration of trauma-informed counselling differs from a more traditional hierarchical/expert approach to one of curiosity, partnership and empowerment.
Building on material already covered in the "Trauma-Informed Tool Kit" (www.trauma-informed.ca), the training provides participants with a better understanding of the impact of trauma, with particular emphasis on the relationship between trauma, emotions, neurobiology and recovery within supportive relationships. Participants examine their own understanding of healing and the role they play in facilitating this process in the context of trauma. The training provides practical tools for assisting people to better understand and regulate intense emotions. Each participant will receive a DVD that provides examples of various grounding techniques as well as a resource guide on trauma. Participants learn how to talk about trauma with clients/patients and build a therapeutic relationship that empowers trauma survivors and gives them control of their own healing. Over the course of the two days, service providers learn how they care for their own emotional self and protect themselves from the affects of vicarious trauma. At the end of the training participants will feel more confident and equipped to support people affected by trauma through the counselling and recovery process.
Follow-up sessions will be scheduled to examine how participants have been able to integrate what they have learned, discuss what challenges they have experienced, and address new questions that may have arisen for them since the training.
There is a registration fee of $50 for this two-day training. Each training session will be limited to twenty participants.
Winnipeg Dates:
September 21 & 22, 2011 January 18 & 19, 2012
October 26 & 27, 2011 February 15 & 16, 2012
November 23 & 24, 2011 March 14 & 15, 2012
Rural Dates & Locations: see Information Brochure
Schedule is subject to change.
For registration information, contact Leslie Debrecen @ 204-784-4206 or email ldebrecen@klinic.mb.ca.
CLICK HERE FOR INFORMATION BROCHURE
3) Teaching Grounding Practices to Counsellors (1-day)
Prerequisite: 2-day Trauma Informed Counselling Training.
One of the most useful outcomes of the recent findings in the study of emotional and physical stress is that the quickest way to calm the mind is to calm the body. An overactive limbic system that drives the body’s physiological responses to stressors can be calmed by the breath in sitting meditation and slow movements like those practiced in yoga, tai chi, qi gong or walking meditation. These mindfulness practices can be learned relatively quickly by both counselor and their clients and, if practiced regularly, can facilitate a faster recovery from periods of high stress or reactivity.
A daylong workshop on mindfulness would focus almost entirely on learning grounding techniques by practicing them and exploring the physical and mental features of that experience. The practices would be selected from ones used by counsellors at Klinic presently with clients as well as those that are a part of an eight-week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Group process developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn. A brief rational from the neuroscience and psychotherapy literature would be offered to introduce these practices.
- Awareness of breath meditation
- Qi Gong
- Mindful Walking Meditation
- Three Minute Breath Meditation
- Yoga stretching
- Present Moment Awareness Exercise: eating, noticing environmental cues, listening, etc.
Dates: March 26, 2012 Registration Fee: $75 per person
PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
Contact Leslie at 784-4206 or email ldebrecen@klinic.mb.ca
Love and Violence: Broadening Our Lens of Abuse in Intimate Relationships
Dates: September 28 - 29, 2011
November 30 - December 1, 2011
February 29 - March 1, 2012
May 16 & 17, 2012
Session Times: 9:00am to 4:00pm Cost: $100 / person
Any service provider working with people affected by domestic violence would benefit from broadening their lens of violence in intimate partner relationships.
Klinic's Evolve program offers a two-day workshop on family violence. This interactive workshop explores the many dimensions of relationships and the complexities of family violence. The training is designed to provide service providers with an opportunity to reflect on the meaning they give relationships and how that translates into a perspective on family violence. The training looks beyond labels of victim/perpetrator to examine the multiple layers of family violence.
Service providers participating in this 2-day session will be provided with the necessary tools to construct multiple vantage points from which to have a more unobstructed and panoramic view of family violence and a greater understanding of the uniqueness of each family, person and situation. Participants will acquire skills for supporting people through this process of change and recovery.
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ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training)
Dates: November 9 & 10, 2011
December 7 & 8, 2011
March 21 & 22, 2012
May 26 & 27, 2012 (Sat/Sun)
Session Times: 8:30am to 4:30pm Cost: $75 / person
Session Times: 8:30am to 4:30pm
Cost: $75 / person
ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) is a standardized 2-day introductory suicide intervention training developed by Livingworks in Calgary and is put on throughout Canada, the United States, Europe and Australia. ASIST “is for caregivers who want to feel more comfortable, confident and competent in helping to prevent the immediate risk of suicide”. This basic training is mandatory for employment in many community agencies throughout Manitoba, and has been offered at Klinic since November 2006.
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Winnipeg Regional Health Authority also offers ASIST sessions. Click here for more information.
Advanced Suicide Prevention Training: Level II
Winnipeg: February 9 & 10, 2012 (Thu/Fri)
Session Times: 9:00am to 4:00pm Cost: $150 / person
Few clients challenge us more than clients struggling with suicide. Suicidal clients are dealing with deep and profound pain that can cause the service provider to feel overwhelmed and inadequate. The responsibility is great, and we are expected to assess the situation accurately, and the pressure is on us to help the client stay safe and alive. Given the gravity of the situation, it is paramount that we possess best practice and current suicide assessment and intervention information and skills. The Advanced Suicide Prevention Training (ASPT) explores these areas in-depth, going beyond the basics and towards more detailed assessment and intervention strategies to support clients on their road to healing. The training also covers the link between trauma and suicide and the importance of trauma-informed assessment. Relationship building and the impact of the work on providers is also a central focus.
Participants must have at least one of the following pre-requisites to attend the Advanced Suicide Prevention training:
- Introduction to Suicide Prevention, Klinic Suicide Prevention Series
- ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training)
- Klinic’s Volunteer Crisis Intervention Training Program
- Possess basic knowledge and practice in suicide prevention and intervention
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