Work-related Stress and Vicarious Trauma
Doing work where you support people who have been harmed by other people perpetrating violence, abuse, or oppression, can be a source of strength and enrichment. It can also be challenging for our minds, bodies and spirit.
- Thursday 1st May, 2025
- No prior knowledge required
- 6.5 Hour course
- For practitioners working with people harmed by violence, abuse or oppression
This workshop provides a unique opportunity for practitioners to explore and reflect on how this work can offer both welcome and unwelcome changes within ourselves, how our responses are shaped by social, cultural and political landscapes, and the importance of individually and collectively finding ways to connect with values, meaning, safety, and care. In this workshop, you will have space to reflect on actions you and your team/organisation can take, which may be protective in the face of work-related stress and vicarious trauma.
What will you learn
- Understand and delineate between the different types of stress in undertaking complex trauma support
- Identify physiological, psychological, relational and spiritual signs, symptoms and changes that can occur when experiencing work related stress and trauma
- Identify personal and collective risk and protective factors in work related stress and trauma
- Identify personal and collective strategies that may be protective against work related stress and trauma
