Trauma Informed Care and Practice - An Indigenous Approach to Developing Worker Skills
21st – 23rd June 2023
A 3 day workshop which begins to unpack ‘Symptom as
History’ providing tools to develop generational resilience
in healing from trauma and systems transformation
Developed by Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson AO and Dr Caroline Atkinson PhD and facilitated by Tracy Hardy and Kylie Marjambi Miles
This workshop unpacks the topics that are most commonly requested by people working in the Human Services field and Indigenous families who are living with trauma behaviours. It is an experiential and interactive
workshop. A safe space to talk about the issues, where sense can be made of the Number 1 question: ‘WHY IS THIS HAPPENING AND WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT IT?'
TOPICS INCLUDE (but not limited to):
- improving responses to trauma behaviours
- working with Indigenous young people & communities
- trauma audits using genograms & loss history maps
- experiential and interactive activities
- Indigenous healing practices, what do they look like
- de-escalation strategies
- exploring behaviour as language
- story mapping, how history of place strengthens
responses - unpacking cultural safety, cultural sensitivity, cultural
fitness, cultural security, cultural competency and what
they all mean - how trauma is stored in the brain and the body
- art, dance, drama, music, song, massage therapies
- strengthening integrative service responses in your
community - developing communities of care within communities of
practice - effective yarning circles & action planning
- self care practices and debriefing
- how to minimise and respond to vicarious trauma and
burn-out - physical, psychological, mental ill-health and substance use
- defining and understanding violence
Download the training brief, click here.
Download the training briefFor ticket registration and payment, email [email protected]. This workshop is open to all members of the public.
Cost: $1000 per person (includes GST)
Dates: Wednesday - Friday, 21st – 23rd June 2023
Times: From 9:00am to 4.30pm
Venue: Maroochy Arts and Ecology Centre
33 Palm Creek Rd, Tanawha QLD 4556
Max: 25 places
What is Provided:
- Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea (a nutritious and delicious morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea that both celebrates ancient ingredients sovereign to First Nations Peoples across Australia and being given a First Nations Accredited Nutritionist/Practising Dietitian of Australia’s thumbs up)
- PDF Version of Workshop resource booklet
- Two facilitators
- Certificate of Attainment
- Accommodation and travel is at your own cost.
Please note: Wattleseed Nutrition, Health and Wellbeing is Supply Nation Registered.
Contact Tracy Hardy to discuss further:
Mob: +61 0408725091
E-mail: [email protected]
Workshop Facilitators
Tracy Hardy
Lead Facilitator
Tracy is a Gamilaroi woman, Accredited Dietitian/Nutritionist, Beauty Therapist and Founder of Wattleseed Nutrition, Health and Wellbeing, a 100% Aboriginal owned business based on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Tracy is an accredited Wayapa® Wuurrk practitioner, an earth connection practice, based on ancient Indigenous wisdoms, focussing on taking care of the Earth as the starting point for creating Earth-Mind-Body-Spirit well-being. She has completed a Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Trauma and Recovery and a proud Lead Facilitator for We Al-Li’s Dadirri and Culturally Informed Trauma Integrated Care, Practice and Healing workshops. Tracy takes a personalised, holistic, culturally centred and trauma informed approach to health and wellbeing, foods, food systems and environments, applying a strengths-based, holistic and cultural lens, focussing on sustainable and healing connections, conversations and actions. She truly believes in the strength and healing power of understanding the impacts of trauma and revitalizing and sustaining connections to traditional foods, lands, and practices. Tracy believes through two-way sharing of knowledge we foster understanding and grow stronger in self, mind, body, and spirit wellbeing.
Cindi McCormick
Co-Facilitator
Cindi is a Māori woman from Aotearoa/New Zealand of Ngāti Pikiao and Ngāi Rongomai decent, currently living in Brisbane. Cindi's passion for education in healing and wellbeing sector spans 26+ years. Cindi possesses a natural ability to seamlessly weave her main stream mental health nursing expertise into the healing and wellbeing world through mentoring and her warm and inviting mindfulness, meditation and Reiki are teachings. Cindi offers a strong, culturally rich presence, which her clients experiencing during her heart-centred cultural practices such as Māori bodywork, her Elder's teachings and during cultural supervision. A professional resilience facilitator and mento, Cindi has a wealth of knowledge and wisdom to impart with a fierce, wise, loving, warm and strengthening energy.
