Vicarious trauma and its’ impact on helping professionals’ relationships
3 – 3.5hrs
Learn more about this workshop:
- Explores the physiological and psychological impacts of repeated exposures to trauma
- Factors of trauma (why some people are impacted differently than others)
- When what you do overtakes who you are – how this happens and how to reclaim what you’ve lost
- Impact on relationships
- Finding your way back to one another
- Reslience and post-traumatic growth
Stress. Leave it, Live it, Love it
1.5hrs
Learn more about this workshop:
- What is stress?
- Internal/external impacts of stress
- Handling it (APR)
- Acknowledge
- Process
- Respond
- Making stress work for you
Mental health for first responders – Hazards and Healing
2.5hrs
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- The physiological and psychological risks of becoming a first responder
- The life hazard assessment
- Hazard proofing our hearts and rewiring our brains for success and awesomeness
A change is gonna come
6.5 – 7 hrs
Learn more about this workshop:
- Values, ideals, and what you thought you signed up for when you joined this field
- Barriers to change
- the words we use and what they “mean”
- understanding stuckness and why Tarzan was a smart guy
- rethinking resistance and the revolvong door
- Empowering change
- stages of change
- a few ideas on what helps change happen (common factors theory)
- “action” and also bamboo plants
- How challenge can change us
- for worse or for better
- A change is gonna come
- STO (smal things often)
Pie in the sky, well run dry, and the life space inbetween
6.5 – 7 hrs
Learn more about this workshop:
- Values, ideals, and what you thought you signed up for when you joined this field
- Stress and trauma – part of the package?
- define, compare, contrast
- Red, blue, and the paper towel (neuroscience stuff)
- the physiological and psychological impacts
- Where did you go?
- the impact on our relationships
- Here I am! There you are!
- Prevention and treatment
- workplace practices
- relationship practices
- self-care practices (what it really is)
TLC – a couples connection workshop
Two full days
Learn more about this workshop:
Day one – focus is on communication
- What makes a relationship work (myths and realities of real relationships)
- Why we need eachother
- Communication patterns that push us apart and pull us together
- Getting to know your partner differently
- skills and tools to be seen and heard and to be seeing and hearing
- Reducing stress
- Intro to conflict
Day two – focus is on conflict resolution
- When your partner has trauma, anxiety, or depression
- When we are stuck – overcoming conflict
- Sex, parenting, money, and more
- Planning to make love last
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