Trauma Informed Self Care for Professionals
25 June, 2025 at 10:00am - 1:00pm
Online
Expert-led Practice Session co-delivered with Jay Vaughan, Somatic Experience Practitioner & Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapist and CEO of Family Futures
Who this is for
Adoption practitioners and managers (Voluntary Adoption Agencies, Regional Adoption Agencies, Local Authorities, and independent social workers), children’s social care services, children and family social workers, foster carers, kinship carers, designated teachers, and other professionals working with children and families.
Details
Our work as professionals with children from the care system and their foster, SGO or adoptive families inevitably means we are working at times with high levels of trauma. Just by being human our bodies and nervous systems are going to be impacted by this. The pandemic has added to our stress levels, and working online does not resource us or give us the sense of connection which helps many of us manage stress.
This morning’s workshop recognizes the need for us, as helping professionals, to both heighten our awareness of the impact of stress on our bodies and find ways of looking after ourselves and resourcing our nervous systems. Understanding the impact of trauma only goes some way towards helping us make sense of our bodily responses. What is needed when supporting ourselves to manage is for our bodies to be listened to. It is the body, as Van der Kolk says, that ultimately ‘keeps the score’.
The body needs attention and this workshop will focus on helping the ‘carer’ (professional) learn to care for themselves, find ways to resource themselves and manage their stress responses. The workshop offers a combination of research information and psycho-education as well as practical strategies to look after ourselves.
Learning Outcomes
- To think about vicarious trauma and the risk of this for all helping professionals
- To help participants understand their own stress responses and heighten awareness of triggers
- To support participants in looking at how to resource themselves and take care of their bodies and nervous systems
About the trainer
Jay Vaughan
Jay Vaughan, M.A., is a Somatic Experience Practitioner. Jay is also a state registered Dramatherapist, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapist and certified Theraplay therapist and supervisor as well as a Theraplay trainer. Jay is the Clinical Director at Family Futures CIC and is also the agency’s Responsible Person. Jay has an MBE for her work with children and young people.
Jay has been working with traumatised children since qualifying as a Dramatherapist in 1989, and passionately believes in the use of arts, play and body-based approaches in helping traumatised children and their families heal.
Instructions
A member of staff will be in touch with attendees one week prior to the event to share a pre-event delegate pack.
If you have any questions regarding this webinar, please contact us at info@cvaa.org.uk. We will aim to answer your query within two working days.
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