Course Description
This course aims to empower professionals to understand, identify, and build resilience, recognise and manage secondary trauma, and implement effective self-care strategies. Participants will also learn to critically assess and enhance system-level resilience within their organisations. It is half a day online or f2f and can be delivered to all professionals.
Course Content
By the end of this session learners will:
- Be able to define resilience.
- Understand how to know when your resilience is low.
- Understand how to build resilience for risk areas for stress.
- Understand what is meant by self-care and how to look after ourselves when working in a front-line role.
- Be able to critically assess the system-level resilience at your organisation.
Delivery
This can be delivered as an interactive webinar or as a classroom-based session. Learner resources include:
Workbook; Powerpoint slides; Information packs; and follow-up resources.
Who's It For?
All staff.
Learning Objectives
This workshop explores resilience, trauma and the secondary effects of trauma with a view to improving our ability to take care of ourselves and build our resilience skills.
Be able to define resilience.
- Know definitions of resilience.
- Understand that how we interpret resilience is individual.
- Be able to define different types of resilience and know what they look like.
Understand how to know when your resilience is low.
- Be able to define secondary trauma, vicarious trauma, burnout and compassion fatigue.
- Understand why we might experience secondary trauma, including how resilience and secondary trauma relate to our Window of Tolerance.
- Understand the possible impacts of secondary trauma and what it looks like.
- Recognise responses in yourself and others that might indicate secondary trauma.
Understand how to build resilience for risk areas for stress.
- Identify risk areas for stress in your role.
- Understand how to work to restore choice and control in these areas.
- Know how to use and offer social supports at work more effectively.
Understand what is meant by self-care and how to look after ourselves when working in a front-line role.
- Understand what is meant by self-care.
- Understand what the areas of self-care are and techniques that help to build resilience for each.
- Recognise barriers to effective self-care for you.
- Plan for your own self-care.
- Evaluate your commitment to self-care.
Be able to critically assess the system-level resilience at your organisation.
- Be able to define system-level resilience.
- Understand the role of an employer to build and support system-level resilience.
- Identify examples of system-level resilience at your organisation.
- Identify areas, policies and procedures that could further build system-level resilience at your organisation.
