Safer Professional Touch

Fundamentals for a Trauma informed practice. Professional training.

This program is perfect for you if...

You are in clinical practice, allied health, or complementary touch therapies (including sex work), and looking to enhance your practice with a trauma-informed approach?

Join me somatic distance learning event where we will explore an embodied approach to understanding trauma, how it impacts our clients, how to notice the signs and symptoms of a trauma response, and how to be with a person experiencing them.

Why this workshop?

I believe that if you work with bodies you will, at some point, have had a client experience a trauma response in your clinic or on your table. Not because you were working incorrectly in your field of expertise, not because you broke any ethical code, simply because many people live with the ongoing effects of trauma.

When this happened, it’s my premise that, one of three things followed:

  • You can recall witnessing it happen – great, well done for spotting the signs, did you know what to do next?
  • You can’t recall it happening and you never heard from the client – you probably never will.
  • You can’t recall it happening but the client (or friend of the client) reported it to you afterwards.

This course will focus on helping you make scenario 1 become more common for you, and give you tools for what to do next.

It moves beyond blame and focusses on the relationship, between practitioner and client, as the key factor that differentiates between a trauma response that is retraumatizing, and a trauma response that can form part of building trust and healing.

In this 9 hour interactive training you will learn about:

  • The neurobiology of safety and trauma, through the lens of two main scientific models; Stephen Porges’ Poly Vagal Theory, and Dan Siegel’s Window of Tolerance
  • The benefits and scope of a trauma-informed practice
  • The anatomy of the brain through visual, kinaesthetic and metaphorical learning lenses
  • Consent; moving beyond yes & no, and disclaimers
  • How power dynamics and individual lived experience affect the way we practice our profession
  • The symptoms and signs of nervous system dysregulation
  • The power of co-regulation and coming back to safety together
  • Repairing ruptures in the relationship and gaining clients’ trust and loyalty
  • How you can improve your own nervous system awareness to benefit yourself, your clients and the world.

What to expect

This training takes place online, over three x 3 hour sessions, held one week apart. This allows for learning to integrate in between classes, as you implement it in your life and practice.

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You will receive a Supplementary Course Handbook 48 hours before the start of the sessions. You are not required to read it all before the sessions, but you may if it suits your learning style. We will refer to in session so printing may be beneficial. It is yours to keep and revisit and support your learning.

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As this is an interactive training, not a webinar, we ask all participants to intend to have their cameras on, to the degree this is comfortable for you. If you need to take space off screen, this is also welcome. You will be invited to engage in small group activities, so far as you feel comfortable to do so. No one will be asked to do anything they do not want to.

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The facilitator, Jules, will be available for 15 minutes after each training session should any participants wish to debrief their experience of the content.

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