Community Teaching/Training Options:
- Understanding Trauma Responses and Responding in a Trauma-Informed Way
Learning Objectives: As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
- Identify the brain and body’s normal response to trauma (even when it seems paradoxical or weird)
- Connect normal trauma behaviors with physiological explanations and not necessarily bad choices.
- Describe the signs of flashbacks, hyperawareness, and hyperarousal and know the difference between crisis and trauma.
- Practice techniques for responding to persons in crisis in an empowering, trauma-informed, survivor-centered method of active listening.
2. Imagining Healing after Trauma
Learning Objectives: As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
- Identify how stories and narratives help survivors feel seen and heard.
- Describe the importance of various methods for healing that involve the body and brain in pre-verbal ways and do not require active problem solving or analyzing (at first).
- Understand the importance of the faith community in healing as those who bear witness, hold the story, validate, and empower.
- Practice techniques for bearing witness to the stories of survivors in ways that hear both the agony and the resilience in order to form a new narrative/meaning
3. Let’s Play! Practicing Healing Activities
Learning Objectives: As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
- Recognize what happened in the trauma experience that changed the body and brain.
- Understand the difference between healing after a cold/flu and thriving after trauma.
- Identify ways to practice healing that begin in the space of trauma, before language is assigned or there are any words for the pain.
- Practice healing methods that utilize the body’s normal response system to trauma to facilitate thriving.
For Faith Communities:
Responding to Survivors in the Faith Community: Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault 101
Learning Objectives: As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
- Understand key concepts such as: trauma, abuse, survivor-centered care, trauma-informed, agency, consent, and autonomy.
- Identify how power and control plays into violence and how regaining power (being empowered) is important for healing.
- Know the key components of the Power and Control Wheel and how they are used as a tactic for control.
- Practice techniques for responding appropriately to survivors when they disclose violence and abuse.
Teaching and Training:
Sample Presentation Slides: Dr. Christy Sim’s Basic PPT Presentation
Sample Agenda for Crisis Response Training: DrChristySim Day Training Schedule
Links to Christian Feminism Today’s Speaker’s Bureau):
- Ethical and Healing Responses to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
- Mental Health and Self-Care: Responding to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault with Art and Writing
- The Voice and Role of Faith Communities Responding to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
Sample Civil/Social Training Options:
- Understanding the Science of Trauma and Healing: What is happening in the brain and bod
Learning Objectives: As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
- Identify the brain and body’s normal response to trauma (even when it seems paradoxical or weird)
- Connect normal trauma behaviors with physiological explanations and not necessarily bad choices.
- Describe the signs of flashbacks, hyperawareness, and hyperarousal and know the difference between crisis and trauma.
- Practice techniques for responding to persons in crisis in an empowering, trauma-informed, survivor-centered method of active listening.
2. Professional’s Guide to Taking Care of Yourself During Someone Else’s Crisis
Learning Objectives: As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
- Identify the warning signs of secondary trauma.
- Think critically about what kinds of triggers or particular situations might be more difficult for them.
- Practice using tools to minimize and mitigate secondary trauma responses.
- Create a self-care plan (both personal self-care plan and organizational self-care plan).
3. Healing After Trauma: Mindfulness in Art, Writing, Body Movement, and Awareness Exercises
Learning Objectives: As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
- Identify the reasons why particular healing tools work for the body and brain after it responds to trauma.
- Understand the various methods (art, writing, movement, and awareness) and how they can practically be used.
- Practice techniques and healing methods to bring back to your own setting.
Information on Speaking Topics:
Samples:
- Anger and Violence: Transforming Anger like Chemistry Class (first presented at the Talking Taboo book signing event at St. Paul’s School of Theology).
- Priscilla the Land Shark: What does Healing Look Like? (first presented at the Evening of Empowerment for Crime Victims in Collin County).
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