Education
one & three hour adoption & trauma intro
This course is useful as a presentation to schools, churches and other organizations looking to help staff, volunteers and members understand how to engage with foster and adoptive families in a way that provides supportive continuity, kind and encouraging language, and safe, understanding interaction. This can be presented as a brief one hour introduction which covers the highlights, or as a longer seminar with more interaction. If you have more specific needs in terms of timing, feel free to connect.
The Family Loss
When we look at the children in our care who are from hard places, the things they have been
through can sometimes seem so significant that it’s hard to even acknowledge the personal impact on us as parents, of walking alongside them in their trauma.
However, research shows that those in intensive caregiving roles frequently sustain secondary trauma, sometimes known as vicarious trauma. In simple terms, if we want to bring our best to the work of supporting and raising children from hard places, we too need room to grieve, and space to process our own legitimate sorrows, frustrations, disappointments, and losses. We often also need to support other children and family members in our homes, affected by this good but challenging work.
In this seminar, we look at the griefs and losses of foster and adoptive parents and discuss tools for confronting our own work of mending, so we can continue to show up healthy and whole for our children and our lives.
Trauma competent Care:
Tools for Supporting Children from Hard Places
Are you looking for insight into how your child has been affected by their circumstances prior to becoming part of your family? Do you find yourself in need of practical, actionable tools for how to respond when your child's past wounds surface in the form of emotional surges and challenging behaviors?
This nine module series will give parents a chance to take a more in-depth, sequential look at trauma; what it is, how it shows up and how we can respond in ways that promote good outcomes for your children and family.
There aren’t simple, pat solutions for how to walk with a child from hard places, but there is clarifying information and proven tools that can support children from hard places, and where needed, begin to change disheartening patterns in our family dynamics which move toward hope and healing.
This training has nine modules and can be presented in three full consecutive days or over nine once/week sessions.
Restorative Embodied Yoga Principles for Trauma & secondary trauma recovery
Learn some basic principles for how to guide yourself or your family members through small daily habits and practices aimed at helping us regulate our nervous system, reduce dissociation and reconnect and integrate mind/body/spirit
This course looks at integrating ideas and modes from Trauma-Sensitive Yoga into the daily habits and routines of children recovering from trauma and abuse. We discuss small skills, language, and awareness practices that fit into daily rhythms. We look at safe ways to invite children to reconnect with their present experience without overwhelming them, thereby helping them to regain their agency in self-regulation. Our goal is to empower parents with tools for noticing, understanding, and supporting learned helplessness, C-PTSD & PTSD, and dissociation common to a trauma experience.
One-on-one advocacy.
Sometimes we need deeper, one-on-one connection and support as we navigate grief, manage traumatized behaviors, work to develop strategies for building felt safety in our family, and come to terms with secondary/vicarious trauma. We all have times where we need a space where we can be heard with unconditional acceptance, and support from people who understand the journey.
Schedule
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