Theoretical Framework for Understanding Trauma

• Defining trauma
• How trauma impacts relationships, neurobiology, cognition, emotions, and spirituality
• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
• The difference between mental illness and a trauma response
• The window of tolerance model
• Fight, flight, freeze, faint, and fawn responses

Organizational/Systemic Forms of Trauma

• How organizational contexts can perpetuate trauma
• Characteristics of a trauma-informed/trauma-aware organization
• Organizational case studies in which participants identify problems and recommend changes based on a trauma-informed approach

Trauma-Informed Practitioners

• Specific examples of practice that perpetuate or exacerbate trauma responses
• Recognizing and responding compassionately to trauma responses
• Practically applying the principles of trauma-informed care
• Preventing burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma in helping professionals
• Direct practice case studies which participants identify problems and recommend changes based on a trauma-informed approach