Repairing Trauma & Reclaiming Authentic Self:
An Approach to Trauma Recovery
If you are a children’s mental health worker aware of the developmental trauma of the parents/caregivers  you work with, or if you provide services to adults, and you want to be sure that you can identify and respond to developmental trauma in the most helpful way, this training is for you.  

Engaging a parent/caregiver/adult  who struggles with issues related to their own early life trauma can be very challenging. The result of such trauma can have an adverse impact on their current family system specifically on the child/parent relationship, the co-parenting relationship, and the marital dyad. Parents/caregivers/adults  often feel that they are being confronted and blamed for this impact. This training will provide participants with a starting place in having these difficult conversations using a non-confrontational, non-blaming approach. This training brings focus to the importance and benefit of treatment interventions that will engage the parent/caregiver/adult  in “doing their work” so that healing and repair can happen for the individual and their relational/family system. 

This two day training will  provide an  outline of the  psychoeducational underpinnings of trauma including  amygdala reactivity, survival brain states, the impact on psychosocial development due to attachment trauma and a discussion of the acquired voice and the authentic voice.  This conceptual framework for understanding trauma highlights what is meant by Borderline Personality Disorder, Developmental Trauma, PTSD, CPTSD.  The primary symptoms of trauma will be reviewed.  The role of assessment as a means to formulating effective treatment interventions will be outlined. A group treatment approach ( Waiting for the Bomb To Drop: and not knowing what to do when it does) will be presented. This approach is aimed at managing the symptoms of trauma and address the deficient sense of relational safety and lack of coherent personal identity and competence many parents/caregivers/adult trauma survivors struggle with.

Participants  will be introduced to assessment tools, structured interviewing, pre and post measures. They will be  provided with both theory and skills in order to facilitate a trauma group for parents/ caregivers/adults impacted by trauma.  Participants will learn more about the theory and research to date that informs this bottom-up approach to trauma treatment. 

Learning Objectives:  
1. Differentiate between PTSD, CPTSD and Developmental Trauma. 
2. Discuss the shifting perspectives on BPD. 
​3.Overview of developmental trauma in parents/caregivers/adults: impact on the brain, attachment and psychosocial development, and the key presenting symptoms. 
4. Assess for Trauma in Adults. Note: Access to the measures presented requires proof of clinical status. The website to request access will be provided.   Examine the role of assessment  in treatment planning.
5. Become familiar with the skill content provided in the three module format of WFTBTD.
6.Hands on practice with facilitation and application of  these skills.  

Workplace Traumatic Stress: Prevention and Intervention for Frontline Staff and First Responders
This one day workshop has been designed for a wide range of professionals who, by the nature of their work, are often exposed to traumatic experiences. Participants are provided with an overview of Workplace Traumatic Stress exploring the barriers to addressing WTS, the progression of burnout to PTSD, indicators/symptoms, strategies for prevention,  and treatment interventions.       
                               
 Learning Objectives:
1. What is  meant by Workplace Traumatic Stress.
 2.Gain awareness of the indicators/symptoms.
3.Review prevention strategies. 
4. Review interventions for treatment
  
CPCC can customize workshops to meet the needs of professionals wanting to address mental health challenges in  families, children, adults and corporate settings.     

​Other workshops offered:
A Trauma Informed Approach to Wellness
Trauma Informed Practice: Expanding our Lens
The Impact of Trauma on The Family  System
Understanding Ethics and Boundaries in Mental Health practice
Psychosocial/Systems Perspective on Personality Organization 
A Family Systems Perspective on Grief and Loss   
True Colors Personality Inventory 


Workshop Feedback: 

Waiting For The Bomb to Drop , Group Therapy (group participant feedback)  
"Relief at last"
"It  helped me to realize I wasn't responsible for the past"
"Every night the material taught me something"
"It has changed my entire way of looking at things"
"I feel that I still have a long way to go, but not as long as before this course"
"The material was mind-blowingly relevant"
"It has changed my life - I feel better about myself"
"I am reborn"
"Surprised at how relevant it was"
"I feel I have some tools to apply to my life"
"This group was life-changing"

​Adult Survivors of Developmental Trauma: A Framework for Assessment and Intervention   
​​"I would highly recommend this training to others who support adults/parents in their work"
-Carizon staff
"What a great workshop...Ruth was extremely knowledgeable in not only providing psyched but also in sharing practical tools."
-Carizon staff
"I really enjoyed this well informed training. The instructor was very knowledgeable and I would  take an entire course just to learn from her".
-Carizon staff 
"This would be critical training for FCS. Being trauma informed is so important ."
- Anonymous  participant , Kitchener 
"Thank you for the amazing workshop."
​-Anonymous participant, Kitchener ​
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Workplace Traumatic Stress: Prevention and Intervention for Frontline Staff and  First Responders. 
"The small group lent itself to robust conversation about a topic that is often taboo.  The workshop covered all aspects of the issue including an organization questionnaire to help guide the creation and implementation of agency policies to recognize and provide support to PTSD in the workplace."
-Program Coordinator, Caledon/Dufferin Victim Services 

​"Excellent"
-Family resource Coordinator, Community Living 

"This was a great workshop. It exceeded my expectations."
-Support for partner with PTSD 

"I think it is very beneficial to be sharing and teaching about trauma. I intend on sharing all information obtained today with my team, friends, family and organization."
-Stonehenge, Addictions Counsellor  

"Very informative! Knowledgeable presenters. I am not experienced in the subject matter and I learned ALOT!"
-Master student