Trauma-Informed Training: Strengthening Emotional & Relational Resilience

WORKSHOP DETAILS:

DATE: Friday April 4, 2025

TIME: 9:00AM am to 12:45PM PST - Pacific Time (US and Canada).

ONLINE ( Using Zoom. Participants will be sent Zoom link prior to the workshop start time)

Additional workshop dates:

This is a Foundational/introductory trauma/resilience-informed training workshop and open to all. It is suitable for anyone interested in strengthening emotional awareness and understanding a growing body of resilience and trauma-informed knowledge; particularly in the areas of healing emotional/psychological triggers, polarization, and strengthening relational and somatic resiliency. No pre-requisite is required.

Certificate of completion will be provided.

Background:

Today, in the midst of distressing news events, the residual impacts of the Covid19 pandemic, and societal polarization, it is more important than ever to gain an understanding of the components of psychological and emotional health, and resiliency.

This introductory workshop is grounded in research and focuses on understanding and providing practical, effective, tools for: strengthening emotional resilience, healing emotional triggers and limiting beliefs; understanding psychological projection; undertanding and strengthening the skill of relational attunement; and widening our "Window of Tolerance".

This workshop has been adapted from a training provided to mental health practitioners, to provide a foundational understanding of the same key concepts for non-therapists. Research shows that psycho-education is a critically key tool in healing emotional dysregulation, trauma, and building resilience. This workshop also helps to build skills to work more effectively with others within the conscious and unconscious layers of communication that occur in all relationships.

A practical, clear, step by step process for identifying and healing emotional triggers and trauma-based will also be provided.

Please note, if you are a mental health therapist, an advanced version of this workshop is available here: Healing Psychological Triggers and Trauma-Based Beliefs: Advanced

The workshop is grounded in research, and informed by the work of experts including: Dr. Allan Abbass, Dr. John Briere, Dr. Steve Cole, Tara Brach, Dr. Susan David, Dr. Ale Duarte, Dr. Diana Fosha, Dr, Linda Graham, Dr. Chris Germer, Prune Harris, Dr. James Hollis, Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad , Dr. Donald Hoffman, Dr. Rick Hanson, Diane Poole Heller, Thomas Hubl, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Byron Katie, Dr. Peter Levine, Nick Ortner, Dr. Susan Pinker, Dr. Stephen Porges, Dr. Isabelle Mansuey, D. Monica McGoldrick, Dr Resmaa Menakem, Nick Ortner, Dr. David Richo, Dr. Allan Schore, Dr. Daniel Siegel, Dr. Diana Schiller, Dr. Elizabeth Stanley, Dr. Michael Unger and Dr. Allan Wong.

This workshop is suited to both personal and professional interest, and may be of particular interest to mental health therapists wishin for a review or to strengthen foundational key concepts; or for parents, coaches, organizational leaders, educators, medical professionals, and healing practitioners.

*Please note - if you would like to attend this workshop but are unable to due to experiencing financial hardship, please contact the organizer.

Certificate of Completion will be provided.

In this workshop you will learn:

• Understanding emotional, relational and somatic resilience
• Understanding the neurobiology of the "human threat response"
• How emotional dysregulation impacts our view of self, other and world
• The neurobiology of trauma and the continuum between stress and trauma
• How emotional upset, grief, and other emotional wounding differ from experiencing trauma.
• How memory is stored
• What is meant by our nervous system's "window of tolerance". How is it widened?
• Understanding the concept of vicarious resilience and learn tools for fostering this in self and others
• Understand emotional triggers, how they are formed and healed
• Gain a clear understanding of the following important concepts: psychological Projection, Transference, Displacement and Projective-identification, and their connections to emotional triggers and unresolved trauma. Tools for identifying these within ourselves and others, and tools for healing.
• Understand implicit memory, and its role in the formation of trauma-based beliefs and emotional triggers.
• How trauma-based beliefs are formed, and healed
• Why do we hold on to beliefs that keep us suffering
• Learn a very clear process to quickly identify the specific trauma-based belief (s) underlying an emotional trigger, and learn the steps to healing these beliefs. Demonstrations provided during the workshop.
• Learn several additional commonly used tools for healing emotional triggers (demonstrations and case studies provided)
• How to avoid re-triggering others and what to do, if this happens.
• How the brain and nervous system develops resilience.... or doesn't
• How to develop/recover/strengthen relational resilience and somatic resilience
• Overview of the concept "neuroception"; and the role of the vagus nerve in emotional regulation.
• Understanding the skill of relational attunement and its role in healing
• Learn practical attunement skills enabling you to work more effectively with others within the conscious and unconscious layers of communication that occur in all relationships.
• Understand the concept of 'co-regulation' and its importance and role in self-regulation and healing
• Learn resourcing and self regulation skills/tools; and tools to widen your window of tolerance.
• An overview of therapies, tools, modalities, including somatic and expressive arts methods used to emotional dysregulation, and trauma
• Understanding post-traumatic growth and how it is fostered

FACILITATOR:

Trish Walsh BA, MTC

Trish is a Master Therapeutic Counsellor, Instructor, teacher, and workshop facilitator, located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. From 2008 - 2016 Trish was the Executive Director of the InnerChange Foundation; a Canadian foundation with the mandate of increasing funding, education and awareness in the area of addiction and concurrent disorders. In Trish’s clinical practice her focus and training are in the area of Transpersonal Psychology, which integrates eastern philosophies within the framework of modern psychology.

Since 2016 Trish has focused on developing and facilitating strength-based trauma informed trainings for university students along with health and mental health professionals who working in the field, and who are interested in updating their knowledge and skills in the area of trauma healing. Trish also provides trauma-informed, and resilience-informed, trainings and workshops on healing intergenerational trauma, collective trauma, compassion fatigue, secondary trauma, and moral injury, to front line workers, school teachers/school administrators, organizations, and the general public.

In addition to Trish’s counselling practice, her work over the last 20 years has focused on knowledge translation: specifically, conveying research findings in medicine and mental health care to government decision makers, and to physicians, mental health professionals, allied health care providers, along with corporations, community groups and the general public. She has also consulted for several organizations to bring health information to their staff, stakeholders, and the general public. Trish has a particular passion for conveying research information in an engaging and easy to understand way, aiding decision makers in their funding and public policy decisions, and helping individuals to learn practical strategies for better health, happiness, and personal success.

Trish also provides training in Trauma-Informed Coaching and Transpersonal Coaching, for professional coaches.

For more info please see: www.trishwalsh.ca

Recent Testimonials:

Hi Trish – I'm echoing Cindy’s comments below – especially the one around setting us up for the rest of our retreat – I recognized triggers in myself I wouldn’t have otherwise. It was also nice to meet you in person. We’re hopeful we get to work with you again! THANKS! - Megan Begley | Chief Operating Officer, SafeSport Officer, Nordiq Canada

"Your presentation was amazing and we’ve had nothing but positive feedback from staff. It was the perfect workshop to have before our leadership course. The two workshops were very complimentary and having the information you presented going into the leadership course made the learnings easier to understand and more meaningful. Thank you for sending us all the resources, it will be shared with all of the attendees. Thanks again!"

"Trish presented her trauma-informed workshop at our staff retreat for professional and mental health development. This workshop is incredibly helpful, informative and relevant for everyone who wants to better understand themselves and those around them whether in a corporate or social setting. It dives into the biological and psychological reasons of why we react the way we do, and provides guidance on how to manage and change behaviours. I’ve done several different corporate personality and behavioural tool analysis, and none of them has been as insightful, or as useful, as this workshop both professionally and personally. Thanks again for a great workshop". - Cindy Chetley | High Performance Coordinator, Nordiq Canada

"The workshop is filled with very relevant material that can be used directly in your therapeutic practice. Trish's delivery style and notes makes the material very accessible and clear. I appreciate her warmth, compassion and passion for this work that puts the participants at ease and generates engaging conversations" - public training survey feedback

"Trish presented her trauma-informed workshop at our staff retreat for professional and mental health development. This workshop is incredibly helpful, informative and relevant for everyone who wants to better understand themselves and those around them whether in a corporate or social setting. It dives into the biological and psychological reasons of why we react the way we do, and provides guidance on how to manage and change behaviours. I’ve done several different corporate personality and behavioural tool analysis, and none of them have been as insightful, or as useful, as this workshop both professionally and personally. Thanks again for a great workshop". Cindy Chetley | High Performance Coordinator Nordiq Canada, Canmore, Alberta

"Your presentation was amazing and we’ve had nothing but positive feedback from staff. It was the perfect workshop to have before our DEI leadership course. The two workshops were very complimentary and having the information you presented going into the leadership course made the learnings easier to understand and more meaningful. Thank you for sending us all the resources, it will be shared with all of the attendees. Thanks again! "

Hi Trish, I’m just echoing Cindy’s comments above, especially the one around setting us up for the rest of our retreat – I recognized triggers in myself I wouldn’t have otherwise. It was also nice to meet you in person. We’re hopeful we get to work with you again! THANKS! - Megan Begley | Chief Operating Officer, SafeSport Officer Nordiq Canada, Canmore Alberta https://nordiqcanada.ca/

"Trish, thank you for your wonderful presentation on Trauma-Informed Care. The feedback received from many of the participants was very positive, with many people saying it was the highlight of the 3 day conference! We found it highly valuable". - BC Provincial Health Authority

"Trish's presentation to our group was not only informative but incredibly insightful. Her warm approach, well attuned and focused presence and wonderful sense of humor made for an excellent transformative learning experience for all." -Izumi Miki McGruer, BC Regional Vice President Advisor Solutions, Canada Life

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