Primary Health Tasmania has recruited We Al-Li to deliver training to enhance trauma-informed practice skills in Tasmania’s primary health workforce. We are pleased to be supporting facilitators Ash Dargan and Jem Stone to deliver two-day training entitled ‘Trauma Informed Care and Practice – An Indigenous Approach to Developing Worker Skills’.
The training begins to unpack ‘Symptom as History’, by examining constructs of collective, historical, complex, developmental, and generational trauma evident in many Indigenous (and other) populations. The workshop places emphasis on developing skills to create culturally safe healing environments, through building culturally competent professionals. It presents tools for developing safe story work through geno-grams or story maps to help map generational stories that provide insight for both client and worker care into traumatic distress and generational resilience in healing or recovery from trauma. Using the construct of circle work or yarning circle, it opens opportunity to establish ‘what’s in the field’ in the client group, as well as what’s in the workplace. Vicarious trauma can be a possible outcome of working with distressed clients so the concept of the intersection between communities of care and communities of practice in responding to vicarious trauma, across the organisation, in the workforce and in communities is considered.
Key subjects to be covered will be: Cultural safety; Trauma (developmental, complex, generational trauma) and their impacts; knowing and naming what the issues are through yarning circles (using yarning circles as structured healing circles); constructing genograms; ensuring selfcare as care of the other; conducting an evaluative ‘Elder’s Circle’.
This training will be available and fully funded for up to 25 general practitioners and allied health professionals per region in the south (Hobart), north (Launceston) and north-west (Devonport) of the state. Morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea will be provided for participants on both days. Available places in this training are limited, so we recommend registering as soon as possible to avoid missing out.