TARP: Working with Trauma Triggers, Activation, and the Resourcing of Parts

Understanding of the need for and benefits of Trauma-Informed Care has grown over the years, supporting clients, providers, and co-workers in preventing the inadvertent triggering of trauma responses. Realistically, though, the nervous system will still protectively activate sometimes despite our best efforts. How can we recognize and then support others when they do occur?

Objectives include:

· Understand the nervous system basis for triggers.

· Define what a trigger is and is not.

· Recognize signs of protective nervous system activation.

· Identify when “Parts” are “on the scene.”

· Define what resources are and are not.

· Learn about types of resources, their purpose, and how to use them.

About the trainer: Babette is a trauma-specific therapist in the metro Portland area. She is certified in Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) and in Level 1 Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for trauma treatment. She has also worked as a Behavioral Health Consultant in primary care and educator in the OHSU Hillsboro Family Medicine Residency program. She is passionate about the lifelong impacts of undiagnosed and untreated trauma on a person's life as well as the resilience of people and their ability to heal when proper care is provided and barriers are removed. Babette enjoys camping, canoeing, birding, and simply soaking up nature. She also enjoys vegetable and native plant gardening, food preservation including fermentation, genealogy, and handwork. She loves acoustic music and reading especially well-written mysteries and historical fiction. She has lived and worked in rural settings most of her life in eight different states but still has her Georgia accent.

Training will incur 2 NBCC / ACEP and/or NAADAC CE. Attendees must attend with camera on.