Intro: Healing Emotional Triggers & Strengthening Relational Resiliency

WORKSHOP DETAILS:

DATE: Sunday May 15, 2022

TIME: 9:00AM am to 12:30PM PDT (Vancouver BC time).

ONLINE ( Using Zoom. Participants will be sent Zoom link prior to the workshop start time)

Additional workshop dates: Trauma-informed Practice Trainings

Advanced version of this workshop : Healing Psychological Triggers, Beliefs and Intergenerational Trauma: Advanced

This is a Foundational/introductory trauma-informed training workshop and open to all. It is suitable for anyone interested in strengthening emotional awareness and understanding a growing body of trauma-informed knowledge; particularly in the areas of healing emotional/psychological triggers and polarization, and strengthening relational and somatic resiliency. No pre-requisite is required.

Certificate of completion will be provided.

Background:

Today, in the midst of tragic news events, the impacts of the Covid19 pandemic, and increasing societal and individual polarization, it is more important than ever to gain an understanding of the components of psychological and emotional health and resiliency.

This introductory workshop is grounded in research and focuses on understanding and providing practical, effective, tools for: healing emotional triggers and trauma-based beliefs, understanding psychological projection/transference, strengthening the skill of relational attunement, and building resilience.

This workshop is adapted from an advanced Trauma-informed Practice training provided to mental health practitioners, and provides an easy to understand, and highly useful foundational understanding of the same key concepts for non-therapists. Research shows that psycho-education is a critically key tool in healing emotional dysregulation, trauma healing, and building resilience. This workshop helps builds skills to work more effectively with others within the conscious and unconscious layers of communication that occur in all relationships.

A practical, clear, step by step process for identifying and healing emotional triggers and trauma-based will also be provided.

Please note, if you are a mental health therapist, an advanced version of this workshop is available here: Healing Psychological Triggers and Trauma-Based Beliefs: Advanced

The workshop is grounded in research, and informed by the work of experts including: Dr. Allan Abbass, Dr. John Briere, Dr. Steve Cole, Tara Brach, Dr. Susan David, Dr. Ale Duarte, Dr. Diana Fosha, Dr, Linda Graham, Dr. Chris Germer, Prune Harris, Dr. James Hollis, Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad , Dr. Donald Hoffman, Dr. Rick Hanson, Diane Poole Heller, Thomas Hubl, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Byron Katie, Dr. Peter Levine, Nick Ortner, Dr. Susan Pinker, Dr. Stephen Porges, Dr. Isabelle Mansuey, D. Monica McGoldrick, Dr Resmaa Menakem, Nick Ortner, Dr. David Richo, Dr. Allan Schore, Dr. Daniel Siegel, Dr. Diana Schiller, Dr. Elizabeth Stanley, Dr. Michael Unger and Dr. Allan Wong.

This workshop is suited to both personal and professional interest, and may be of particular interest to mental health therapists, parents, coaches, organizational leaders, educators, medical professionals, and healing practitioners.

*Please note - if you would like to attend this workshop but are unable to due to experiencing financial hardship, please contact the organizer.

Certificate of Completion will be provided.

In this workshop you will learn:

• What is trauma, and how does it impact our view of self, other and world
• The neurobiology of trauma and the continuum between stress and trauma
• How does emotional upset, grief, and other emotional wounding differ from experiencing trauma.
• What is meant by being trauma-informed, and trauma-informed care/practice
• The basic neurobiology of trauma and how traumatic memory is stored.
• What is meant by our nervous system's "window of tolerance". How is it widened?
• Understand emotional triggers, how they are formed and healed
• Gain a clear understanding of the following important concepts: psychological Projection, Transference, Displacement and Projective-identification, and their connections to emotional triggers and unresolved trauma. Tools for identifying these within ourselves and others, and tools for healing.
• Understand implicit memory, and its role in the formation of trauma-based beliefs and emotional triggers.
• How trauma-based beliefs are formed, and healed
• Why do we hold on to beliefs that keep us suffering
• Learn a very clear process to quickly identify the specific trauma-based belief (s) underlying an emotional trigger, and learn the steps to healing these beliefs. Demonstrations provided during the workshop.
• How to identify triggers which may be associated with world events, the Cov19 pandemic, and climate change events; and tools for healing
• Learn several additional commonly used tools for healing emotional triggers (demonstrations and case studies provided)
• How to avoid re-triggering others and what to do, if this happens.
• What are emotional resilience, and vicarious resilience
• How the brain and nervous system develops resilience.... or doesn't
• How to develop/recover/strengthen relational resilience and somatic resilience
• Overview of the concept "neuroception"; and the role of the vagus nerve in emotional regulation.
• Understanding the skill of attunement and its role in trauma healing and preventing re-triggering
• Learn practical attunement skills enabling you to work more effectively with others within the conscious and unconscious layers of communication that occur in all relationships.
• Understand the concept of 'co-regulation' and its importance and role in self-regulation and healing
• Learn resourcing and self regulation skills/tools; and tools to widen your window of tolerance.
• An overview of therapies, tools, modalities, including somatic and expressive arts methods used to emotional dysregulation, and trauma
• Understanding post-traumatic growth. Questions to ask to help foster growth following the Covid19 pandemic.

FACILITATOR:

Trish Walsh BA, MTC

Trish is a Master Therapeutic Counsellor, Instructor, teacher, and workshop facilitator, located in Vancouver, British Columbia,  the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.   From 2008 - 2016 Trish was the Executive Director of the InnerChange Foundation; a Canadian foundation with the mandate of increasing funding, education and awareness in the area of addiction and concurrent disorders.  In Trish’s clinical practice her focus and training are in the area of Transpersonal Psychology, which integrates eastern philosophies within the framework of modern psychology.

Since 2016 Trish has focused on developing and facilitating strength-based trauma informed trainings for university students along with health and mental health professionals who working in the field, and who are interested in updating their knowledge and skills in the area of trauma healing.  Trish also provides trauma-informed, and resilience-informed, trainings and workshops on healing intergenerational trauma, collective trauma, compassion fatigue, secondary trauma, and moral injury, to front line workers, school teachers/school administrators, organizations, and the general public.

In addition to Trish’s counselling practice, her work over the last 20 years has focused on knowledge translation: specifically, conveying research findings in medicine and mental health care to government decision makers, and to physicians, mental health professionals, allied health care providers, along with corporations, community groups and the general public. She has also consulted for several organizations to bring health information to their staff, stakeholders, and the general public. Trish has a particular passion for conveying research information in an engaging and easy to understand way, aiding decision makers in their funding and public policy decisions, and helping individuals to learn practical strategies for better health, happiness, and personal success. 

Trish also provides training in Trauma-Informed Coaching and Transpersonal Coaching, for professional coaches.

For more info please see: www.trishwalsh.ca