Waypoint Training

Trauma Informed Practice

Introduction To The Course

This course offers an in-depth introduction to Trauma Informed Practice and is ideal for professionals working with individuals with multiple, or multi-layered, disadvantages.

It explores the experience of witnessing emotional distress or trauma as a professional and looks at how we can provide space for others to express their experience while promoting self-care.

This mindful method looks at the value of embodying the role of witness when working with people experiencing emotional distress and trauma, while being conscious of the socially produced perspectives in which we view the world, including socially disadvantaged groups.

Instead of asking “what is wrong with you?”, we emphasise the importance of exploring “what has happened to you?” in trauma related discussions.

Within this mindset, it teaches the witness to resist offering solutions to change or fix another person’s experience, allowing the subject to reflect upon their experience in a safe space while preventing harm to those who witness it.

It provides an opportunity to consider “how we work with ourselves” to promote self-care as well as the creation of a space which honours the experience of another. This encourages the witness (or professional) to acknowledge their personal responses to another’s suffering, aiding the maintenance of emotional boundaries.

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What you will learn

Aims of the training:

  • To explore the experience of witnessing emotional distress and trauma
  • To develop ways of providing a space for others to express their experience
  • To promote self-care in the context of trauma work
  • To gain an understanding of the principles of Trauma Informed Practice and of the Power Threat Meaning Framework

Skills for Professional Development: 

  • Understanding the impact(s) of intense emotional engagement
  • Reflective practice – willingness to explore personal vulnerability
  • Reflective practice – awareness of the need for and methods of self-regulation
  • Self-care and sustainable practice
  • Communication – asking for help and support
“Really helped me think about my approach when working with the people I support.”

Interested in this course? We can we can tailor this course specifically to suit your organisation. See our Bespoke Training page.

Have you tried our free Trauma Informed Practice Taster? This 1-hour online session introduces you to the basics of trauma informed practice and is useful pre-learning for this course.

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We are attentive to what’s going on for our learners and always encourage them to be up front with us about what they need. We model what we teach so you can expect a compassionate, collaborative and safe response from us. This is tailored to the person so varies widely.

We would offer ongoing emotional support as suited to your progression with us on a course, whether it’s specific learning needs, confidence, motivation or anxiety and would help you access additional support if needed. You are always welcome to contact us in advance if you want to discuss your particular needs. We will always try to flag up if a section of a course might be more upsetting for some people.

We offer a range of courses relating to personal development and actively encourage a diversity of experiences. Often people who use services want to see what it’s like “from the inside” and are interested to understand a little more formally what the various approaches might have been that they experienced while accessing a service so we’d encourage that (again, if suitable for the individual).

Sometimes, it can be a little unsettling for staff to have people who use services on the same training as them and we make it clear is a course might not be suitable for a given individual. The best thing to do is talk to us if you’re considering this.

Occasionally we get funding to cover costs so it’s worth keeping an eye out on our website. Generally, we are unable to source costs for individuals. They might be able to claim expenses from your own organisation of course.

Oh, yes. We send out attendance certificates at the end of the course. If it’s an accredited course, you’ll get a fancy certificate (or two!) from the Awarding Body.

Several courses are accredited – see the Accredited Courses section for details.

You will never have to disclose anything you do not wish to disclose and we will ensure no pressure is put on you to do so. A key way we learn, however, is to draw on our own experiences and all our courses will ask you to think about how you make sense of some ideas or ways of behaving that we’ve been discussing.

You’ll be invited to share your thoughts sometimes in pairs or small groups and we often have whole group discussions where, again, you would be welcome to explore your ideas. We know that training can be a bit scary sometimes and we do our utmost to get the level of challenge just right for everyone. This means we might have different approaches with different people on different occasions.

We will give you information about how many hours study has been involved. We are not allied to any particular professional organisation for CPD.
Get in touch and tell us what works best for you. We will do everything we reasonably can to make the training as accessible to you as it is to anyone else.
In our attempts to save the planet, we try to minimise our use of paper so we make materials available electronically when we can. Also, it’s a great idea not to spend all your time with us taking notes so we tend not to give PowerPoint handouts until after the event. If you need them beforehand, just let us know.
Generally, 10 am to 4.30 pm. Half days are typically 10am to 1pm or 1.30am to 4.30pm. If we’re doing some specific training for an organisation, we go with what they are wanting.
Probably. Get in touch if you have any concerns or queries.
It depends. Some courses say clearly that they have particular prior learning requirements. For example, most skills-based courses will require you to have good counselling skills. Apart from our introductory counselling skills courses!
Some courses build on firmly established skills, knowledge and/or attitudes. This is clearly indicated in the relevant course descriptions.

Only in the Caribbean or New Zealand. (Just kidding!) Give us a call and we’d love to work out what’s best. Online courses can generally be easily accessed from abroad.

We’re based in Yorkshire but travel all over the country.
If there’s anything specific, it’s mentioned in the particular course description. We’ll make this clear when confirming your place. Some courses do require prior learning too.

For skills-based course, we keep the ratio of 12 learners to one trainer. We often train larger groups with a suitable number of trainers. If it’s not a skills-based course, we tend to limit it to 20 but training can be very successful with very large groups and so we adjust the learning activities to suit the size of the group.

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