Navigating Trauma Care - Maintaining Wellbeing While Practicing Compassion and Empathy

This training explores the nature, dynamics and risks of vicarious trauma and supports practitioners to sustain their wellbeing while working with people impacted by trauma. Drawing on current research, participants will develop a deeper understanding of the early signs and impacts of stress responses that can arise in trauma-exposed work. The session introduces practical strategies across organisational, interpersonal and personal levels to help address the risks associated with vicarious trauma.

This half day (3.5hrs) training program equips professionals with information to understand the profound impact of complex trauma and how to build safe, trusting relationships with those they support. The training also delves into the impact of providing attunement and care, highlighting the importance of recognising and managing stress outcomes for long-term wellbeing.

Understanding trauma and creating safe, supportive environments is essential when working with people impacted by complex trauma. This half-day training explores the core principles of trauma-informed care, helping practitioners deepen their understanding of trauma’s impacts while developing practical strategies to support safety, trust and connection in their work.

This webinar explores how trauma-attuned practice can support safety when working with people impacted by trauma. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of trauma responses and explore practical approaches that foster trust, regulation and respectful engagement in trauma work.

This webinar explores the importance of caring for ourselves while supporting others in trauma-exposed and helping roles. Participants will examine the impacts that caring work can have on wellbeing, including experiences of moral distress, and consider how these challenges can affect sustainability in the work. The session introduces approaches that support self-awareness, wellbeing and professional sustainability, helping participants recognise the importance of caring for themselves.

This webinar explores how practitioners can sustain compassion in their work while maintaining healthy boundaries and supporting their own wellbeing. Participants will reflect on the role of presence, care and professional boundaries when working with people impacted by trauma.

Leading within complex systems requires an understanding of how trauma can shape people, relationships and organisational dynamics. This webinar explores trauma-responsive leadership and the role leaders play in fostering environments that support safety, trust and wellbeing. Participants will consider how trauma-aware leadership approaches can strengthen teams, support workforce sustainability and contribute to more responsive and supportive service systems.

This webinar explores the role of trauma-sensitive reflective practice in supporting safe, thoughtful and sustainable work with people impacted by trauma. Participants will consider how reflective practice can deepen understanding of complex trauma, strengthen professional insight and support more intentional responses in their work

This webinar explores how trauma-informed principles can be embedded into everyday interactions and service environments. Participants will build on their understanding of trauma and consider how the core principles of trauma-informed care can guide safe, respectful and responsive engagement with people impacted by trauma. While recognising the importance of diversity, culture and lived experience in shaping our responses to trauma.