A Solution Focused Approach To Severe Trauma & Stress Recovery
One of Grow’s most popular workshops, this practical workshop will provide tools and techniques that can be put into use immediately by those working with victims of adult severe trauma and stress. An important message running throughout the day is how survivors can live life to the full and/or get their lives back on track.
It is an introductory workshop on working with severe trauma and stress recovery using many of the brief interventions of the Solution Focused Approach.
Many training days offering help in working with this client group are entitled, ‘Increased awareness of…’; ‘Working with…’; and, ‘Familiarise yourself with…’.
This workshop is fundamentally different. In the words of a past workshop participant: “This is the most practical, hands-on, how-to-do-it workshop I have ever attended on severe trauma and stress recovery. I can fully recommend it.”
When: 21 May 2025, 9am – 3.30pm
Where: Online via Zoom
Cost: $320 inc GST. The price stated is per person.
Contact: Faye Johnson – [email protected]
For more information and to register please visit the website and **Note our Special Offer***
NOTE – If your organisation is interested in having John present face-face as a private workshop to 12 – 40 members of your team in October / November 2025, please contact Faye Johnson for more information.
FAQs
Workshop Aims
This workshop will provide participants with easy-to-learn-and-apply solution focused tools and techniques to support victims of severe trauma and stress to get their lives back on track.
Initially, importance is placed on affirming and empowering victims of trauma to regain control over symptoms. The six fields of work - triggers, flashbacks, intrusive thoughts, sleep disturbance, ‘the lows’ and living life to the full, are examined in detail to give participants increased understanding and confidence in working with this client group in a specialised solution focused way.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
• Demonstrate an increased understanding of severe trauma and/or stress
• Know the difference between the ‘victimhood’, ‘survivor-hood’ and ‘living life well’/’thriver-hood’
• Understand the basic solution focused tools and techniques used with this group of service users
• Use a variety of specialised tools and techniques for helping those involved move towards living life well
• Recognise how the techniques can be applied to all types of trauma
• Appreciate the risks and pitfalls when working with those struggling with severe trauma and/or stress
• Highlight the most helpful and useful questions to ask
• Understand the key ways to look after yourself and do this important work
Who Should Attend
This training is designed to be relevant for any public facing role that regularly finds itself dealing with service users in distress.
Groups that have found this training very helpful include: telephone crisis line staff, psychotherapists, mental health nurses, Fire & Rescue, Ambulance crews, art therapists, veterans’ welfare agencies, civil defence teams, Police, counsellors, psychiatrists, psychologists, military personnel, clinicians, criminal justice professionals, social and youth workers.
It is for those who are new, or fairly new to the Solution Focused Approach, but will also provide those more experienced with a range of practical tools that are easy to implement into their practice.
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