Preventing Vicarious Trauma
Preventing Vicarious Trauma
16 June @ 9:30 am - 1:00 pm
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Build your resilience and learn effective self care strategies
This workshop covers all you need to know about potential reactions to distressing and stressful material at work. Take a half day out of your work to help build resilience by increasing your repertoire of prevention and self care strategies.
Join Dr Richard Cash, our trauma expert, to understand the range of potential reactions to distressing, confronting or objectionable material at work and learn about the different ways working with trauma survivors can affect you.
You will learn how to recognise and differentiate a number of responses, including vicarious trauma, burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral injury. Develop best practice strategies for prevention and learn how to identify early warning signs, implement effective self care strategies and access further support.
This workshop is for everyone who wishes to maintain their own resilient practice and for those who supervise and mentor others.
On average, participants of Preventing Vicarious Trauma report a 72% increase in knowledge, 68% increase in skills, and 77% increase in confidence. Satisfaction is rated at 9/10 on average and 100% of participants would recommend this workshop to others.
“The facilitator was engaging and incredibly knowledgeable. They employed light-heartedness and relevant examples to lessen the intensity of the topic without lessening the importance.”
Learning outcomes
- Recognise the range of ways we can be affected by exposure to other people’s trauma at work
- Recognise and understand the range of possible responses when dealing with distressing or objectionable material
- Identify burnout, vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue as potential responses
- Learn about the neuroscience of these responses
- Understand the impacts of these responses on wellbeing and functioning
- Learn effective best practice responses for prevention, self-care and accessing recovery supports
Who should attend?
This is a specialist skills workshop suitable for new, experienced, and advanced practitioners. This workshop is suitable for workers in clinical settings.
Pricing
Early bird*: $315 | Standard: $365 | Group (5+): $295ea
Facilitator: Dr Richard Cash
Date: Monday 16 June 2025
Time: 9:30am–1:00pm
Location: Online
*Early bird pricing ends 16 May