Session 3 - Supporting those experiencing trauma

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Elements of this session include:

• Principles and Practices of T-I-C: Showing the evidence-based reasons why we all need to learn the symptoms, know the 'signs of wear/overwhelm/burn out, and know how to implement Self Care and Care for Others (peers, colleagues, and community)

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• Self Care under pressure and after trauma: Immediate on-the-spot Triaging (eg. Tag Teaming with colleagues when you're overwhelmed on the job); Knowing it's OK to 'Cry For Help;' and having pre-identified 'Safe People' you can go to whenever you're 'going under' to the effects of trauma

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• Getting together with Others and Avoiding Isolating: Intentional Practices and Routines that prevent falling back into old habits and isolating, or 'kidding yourself' that you're OK when you are clearly not

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• Finding your Bigger Picture, Higher Power Guides to Positive Futures: We all need to place ourselves in a bigger Universe, to get beyond the entrapment that can happen while carrying around the weight of 'My Trauma Story;' this is Narrative Therapy 101 - How to shrink your entrapment story by listening to others and sharing yours

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• Sustaining yourself longterm, incl. by Helping Others: Outside of the circumstances that gave rise to the trauma there are Relationships of Care that can offer you Reciprocal Nurture - by exchanging care, empathetic listening and proactive mutual imagining of alternatives.​​​