Training for Educators
- Resiliency: The Hope of Overcoming Adversity
- Promoting Resiliency in Students and Staff
- Developing Psychological Hardiness
- How to Stay Positive While Working With Difficult Clients
- The Challenge – Caring for Self while Caring for Others: An Interactive, Experiential Workshop
- Worker Resiliency – What Organizations can do to support Staff who work with Traumatized Populations
These workshops are available by request.
If your organization or group is interested in any these workshops please contact: Sandra Marshall – Coordinator, Training and Development
training@ckmconsultation.com
Resiliency: The Hope of Overcoming Adversity
Length: 2 hour presentation
Description:
Pain, grief, hurt, loss, betrayal, trauma – these are some of the challenges that are part of the tapestry of our lives. How is it that some survive their painful experiences and others are crushed? How can we use these experiences as opportunities to learn about ourselves and connect with others? In this service we will explore the qualities we can nurture in ourselves and in others to transform pain into something useful, to live life with resiliency.
Who should attend:
Anyone wishing to learn more about how people who are faced with sometimes almost insurmountable obstacles are able to overcome and thrive.
Promoting Resiliency in Students and Staff
Description:
Educators are at the forefront of assisting youth. Many youth struggle with more than the normative issues of growing up. Some youth are facing difficult family problems, addictions, and a pull to join gangs or engage in other anti-social behaviour or have been the victim of any number of kinds of abuse and violence. Some face issues of poverty, homelessness and racism.
This workshop will address:
- how educators and others who work with youth can assist them in learning the skills that will enhance their resiliency.
- as youth learn best by example, this workshop will also explore how staff can utilize the same principles to enhance their own outlook and be a role model for students.
Who Should Attend:
Educators who want to understand how they can promote resiliency skills.
Developing Psychological Hardiness
Description:
New workers to the field often find their first years of practice unsettling. While most training programs have prepared the new worker to manage difficult clinical situations, workers find the stresses of full time practice challenging and often struggle to maintain a psychological equilibrium.
The recent research on work place stress and wellness promotes the ideal of workers learning to create a psychological hardiness in order to be able to endure the rigors of mental health work.
What are the practices that all workers should incorporate in order to protect their mental health and minimize the incidences of secondary trauma?
This workshop will address:
- the issues that are pertinent to new workers in the first years of their practice.
Who Should Attend:
This workshop is designed for workers who are just starting out. It specifically addressed their difficulties and shock of being exposed to certain experiences for the first time. New workers will b e encouraged to establish a life long practice of skills to ensure psychological hardiness.
How to Stay Positive While Working With Difficult Clients
Length: 1 full day
Description:
We are challenged to help children and families with many serious issues and problems. Our clients’ styles of coping and their resultant behaviour will stir up powerful feelings in the staff who try to help them. Their behaviour can elicit anger in us, leave us frightened, overwhelm us or result in us being over connected or under involved. When these feelings when not acknowledged and processed it can result in inappropriate or ineffective treatment responses. Further, because each staff is unique in his or her personality, life experiences and life cycle, effects will be different on each person.
In this workshop participants will:
- examine the defenses that staff can employ while working with difficult clients
- learn to identify personal triggers and biases that can lead to negative interactions
- understand the importance of self care and management of workers feelings and reactions and the potential influence on maintaining a positive therapeutic stance
- gain an understanding of the defenses clients use to cope
- develop skills to stay positive and effective with clients
Who should attend:
Staff who are working with difficult children and families who are searching for ways to stay positive and maintain a beneficial therapeutic relationship with clients that they find challenging.
The Challenge – Caring for Self while Caring for Others: An Interactive, Experiential Workshop
Length: 1 full day
Description:
Research on secondary trauma has confirmed what every trauma counsellor and caretaker experiences….you are affected and changed by the work you do.
Every day that you go to work, you know there is a good possibility that you will be asked to listen to experiences of abuse, suffering or trauma. You will be asked to engage with compassion, sensitivity and warmth to people's experiences of pain and despair. At times, the work may leave you feeling cynical, weary, depleted and devoid of hope.
Trauma counsellors/caretakers experience many of the same symptoms that trauma survivors face: psychic numbing, despair, cynicism, and intrusive imagery. For some counsellors, this may lead to depression, addictions, inappropriate reactions and a loss of interest in work. Secondary trauma can also impair work with clients when the counsellor responds with denial, minimization or over-involvement. These reactions can make counsellors vulnerable to professional mediocrity and possible complaints of professional misconduct.
Through interactive and experiential exercises, this workshop will examine:
- “How does one care for oneself while caring for others?”
- how to ameliorate, mitigate and transform the impact of secondary trauma personally and professionally
- explore realistic strategies for maintaining a balanced, self-resilient lifestyle
Who Should Attend:
This workshop is for those staff working in the human services sector and want a more experiential workshop about how to work with their own secondary trauma difficulties.
Worker Resiliency – What Organizations can do to support Staff who work with Traumatized Populations
Length: 1 full day
Description:
The essence of most work in human services is enhancement of quality of life. Most of our clients have experienced abuse, deprivation, loss or marginalization. A major source of stress for those in the helping professions is constant proximity to great pain. This dynamic can take its toll, both personally and professionally, and managers need to support workers, while ensuring that clients' needs are being met.
Organizations and professionals who do not acknowledge and prepare for the psychological impact are vulnerable to poor work performance, high turnover, boundary violations, ethical breaches, poor interpersonal work relationships, addiction, illness and difficulties in personal relationships.
This workshop will examine:
- how to recognize the impact of working with stressful individuals and institutions
- the risks of unrecognized secondary trauma
- ways to enhance worker resiliency within organizations and develop an integrated approach to enhancing psychological hardiness
- common psychological phenomena that play out in the workforce
- how organizations can minimize negative effects
- principles that encourage resilient organizations
- how accountability can enhance resiliency in workplaces
- a model of how to minimize the stress of organizational change
Who Should Attend:
Managers, administrators, executive directors. This training focuses on organizations and how through the development of practices, policies and procedures