Risking Connection 3-Day Basic Foundational Trauma Training
Risking Connection is a training program created to provide professionals serving trauma survivors with a philosophy and method for working with these often challenging clients. The 3-Day Basic Training is adapted from the original curriculum, Risking Connection: A Training Curriculum for Working With Survivors of Childhood Abuse (Saakvitne, Gamble, Pearlman, & Lev, 2000).
Each day of this active-learning course includes lively presentations, small and large group discussions, application exercises, and activities designed to address self-care and well-being of treaters. All participants receive a certificate of attendance at the end of the training.
Risking Connection is unique in that it maintains that respect for, and care of, BOTH the consumer and the professional are critical. Therefore, it focuses on the impact of vicarious traumatization (VT) on the treater as well as the treater’s complex responses to working with trauma survivors.
Training Overview
Day 1
- The Lifelong Impact of Childhood Trauma
- Traditional Model vs. Trauma-Informed Model
- Working Within a Trauma Framework
- Understanding Symptoms as Adaptations
- How We Were Parented and How It Impacts Our Work
- Introduction to Vicarious Traumatization
Day 2
- The Therapeutic Alliance: The Root of Healing
- Managing Frame and Boundaries with Trauma Survivors
- Strengthening Feelings Skills
- Principles of Crisis Management
- Responding to Crisis Behavior Before, During, and After the Crisis
- Crisis Work and Vicarious Traumatization
Day 3
- Understanding Our Strong Responses to Trauma Survivors
- Implementing a Risking Connection Approach in Treatment Programs
- Addressing and Transforming Vicarious Traumatization
- Making Organizations Better Places to Do Trauma Work
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