Training and events
With ‘trauma’ becoming ever more present in the news film, tv in its’ many forms, and music now is the time to understand what is meant by trauma, how does it affect us and what are the implications on us, our community, and the world.
The world has experienced a global trauma, a pandemic and everyone has been affected in one way or another. Our hope and future possibilities have been affected. We have lived with uncertainty and do not know when it will end.
All training is for those who would like to know more about trauma and its effects, including educators, social workers, youth workers, youth justice workers, police, nurses, counsellors, other mental health practitioners, parents, adoptive parents, foster carers, and those in the community
The aim is to obtain a greater understanding about us as human beings, how trauma affects us and how we can connect with understanding and creativity to enable traumatic growth, both in the individual and society.
There is a saying that it takes a child to raise a village, understanding trauma increases compassion and creates belonging
Understanding Trauma - working towards Recovery Introduction
Free training session for those who work or live in the Haverhill area
This training is an introduction to trauma, introducing the concepts of us as human beings, how trauma affects the body and the mind, why we do what we do, and what is needed to aid recovery This training is for all who would like to know more and have a greater understanding about us as human beings.
It is not only the difficulties, but also the beauty of traumatic growth that brings forth hope and future possibilities.
Dates Times
Mon 18th September 2023 6pm-9pm
Weds 18th October 2023 9.30am-12.30pm
Mon 13th November 2023 6pm-9pm
Weds 6th December 2023 Cancelled
Mon 15th January 2024 6pm-9pm
Weds 14th February 2024 9.30am-12.30pm
Location Room4... Haverhill
Seeking Equilibrium - Recovering from Trauma
The 4 day Understanding Trauma training looks at the current concepts of how trauma affects the body, the mind and the sense of identity, along with what is needed to for restoration of who we truly are. This training is designed to work alongside any foundational training or understanding, professional or personal.
Through sharing this understanding we're able to aid healing and recovery to the traumatised and source equilibrium. We aim to help them unleash their potential and find their super-powers, allowing them to thrive as opposed to survive.
The 4 days include
- Understanding our needs as human beings
- The ‘T’ word and what is trauma?
- The body and the impact of trauma
- Regulation
- Developmental trauma – understanding the arrest that trauma has on development.
- Impacts of trauma
- Physical and emotional health
- Trauma and the internal systems
- Indirect communication, unspeakable trauma.
- The three step approach - working with safety
- Recovery – What is needed, what can we do
- Traumatic growth
- Self-care
- Exploring secondary trauma
- Trauma in external systems
- Toxic stress and healthy living whilst working with the traumatised
Training Dates
Saturday 13th April 2024
Saturday 18th May 2024
Saturday 22nd June 2024
Saturday 6th July 2024
Cost - £350
20% concession discount for self funders
Location Room4... Haverhill
To book email info@room4.org
Reaching the Hard to Reach – A therapeutic trauma recovery approach
This 10 day training is focused on how to work from a trauma recovery perspective for working with the hard to reach. It looks at the current concepts of how trauma affects the body, the mind and the sense of identity, along with what is needed for restoration of who we truly are. The aim is to aid healing and recovery to the traumatised, helping them to unleash their potential and find their super-powers, enabling thriving opposed to surviving. Experiential, it uses creativity in many different forms to meet young people in their world to make meaningful connections, lowering defences and healing trauma.
The 10 days includes the 4 days above with the additional 6 days covering
- Effective listening and youth work skills
- Using conversation to make a difference.
- Creative therapeutic techniques
- Stories and Metaphor
- Understanding the importance of stories to engage with the hard to reach and heal trauma
- Identity – Who am I?
- Working with parts, building the team and how to do it through play
- Recovery plans.
- The wisdom of trauma,
- Creating the therapeutic trauma toolbox
- Safeguarding and trauma
- Ethics and boundaries.
- One day with guest trainer David Taransaud, author of 'You Think I’m Evil’. and presenter of 'Rage for Life' below
Training dates
Saturday 21st September 2024
Saturday 19th October 2024
Saturday 23rd November 2024
Saturday 18th January 2025
Saturday 8th February 2025
Saturday 1st March 2025
Cost for 10 days £850
20% concession for self funders
Location Room4.... Haverhill
To book email info@room4.org
Training Event
One day Training event
We at Room4... are very proud to welcome back David Taransaud!!
Self-Harm and Hidden Despair: Working empathically with CYP who cut themselves.
“We need to understand self-harm as a solution rather than a problem […] When we accept the behaviour as the young person’s best attempt at surviving, we open a dialogue that can lead to finding different solutions” L. Martin
Hurt people don’t just hurt people, they’re also very good at hurting themselves. Like most human behaviour, self-harm has meaning, it only seems senseless or meaningless to the extent we are unable - or unwilling - to comprehend it (Diamond, 1996).
Self-harm is a subject that makes many, if not most, feel uncomfortable. It typically elicits negative responses that range from shock and horror to disappointment, disgust, fear, and anger. As a result, many children and young people who self-harm are labelled as attention seekers, manipulative, crazy, or suicidal (Martin, 2010). Yet, research shows that the way we respond is crucial in determining whether we will increase their deep sense of shame which in turn will increase their self-harming behaviour, or whether we can help them make sense of their experiences and safely explore with them the underlying issues that have led them to self-injure as a way of coping.
A range of themes will be explored, including:·
- The inner world of emotionally wounded CYP· The ‘if you can’t beat them join them’ defense - AKA: ‘identification with the aggressor’·
- Issues and implications of working with self-harm and other self-destructive behaviours in CYP as means of communication·
- Understanding the origins of self-destructive/self-sabotaging thoughts and behaviours·
- How to break the ‘Self Harm Cycle’·
- The importance of human touch (physical holding)·
- The healing power of empathy (emotional holding)·
- How to communicate with self-harmers and help them explore their experiences as they take place in us rather than in themselves.
Date
Saturday 23rd September 2023
10am-4pm
Cost
£60
Location
Samuel Ward Academy, Chalkstone Way
Haverhill, Suffolk CB9 0LD
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The Rage For Life: How to connect, empathise and work with challenging children and young people
Children and young people are rarely seen in a positive light in the press and regularly find themselves at the receiving end of the ‘monster’ epithet. But these kids are not soulless savages, they are survivors of adverse childhood experiences; their ‘monstrous’ behaviour is the means by which they manage early terrors and conceal the shamed and hurt aspect of their Self. They are children who learned that love only brings pain, and intimacy goes hand in hand with abuse. They are emotional orphans who grew up expecting the worst from others, and sadly many of us exceed their expectations.
In order for us, as adults, to help them achieve their full potential for growth and happiness, we need to dare to look into the abyss and venture into the lair of this ‘monster’, the inner den of the so-called ‘feral’ youth, befriend his raw energy and find the beauty within the beast.
So, on the day, we will embark on an exciting venture into an unknown world, a voyage into the uncharted inner landscape of the emotionally wounded child. Along the way, we will explore how to connect and communicate with hard-to-reach children and young people, and how youth culture, particularly the myth of the superhero, can give us an insight into their inner world.
But most importantly, we will discover that our greatest challenges do not hide beneath baseball caps or hooded tops but lurk deep within ourselves, and that the best place to deal with an aggressive kid is not in the classroom or in the dust of the playground, but in our own mind (Bernstein, 2001). For it is only by reclaiming all that is deep within us, and by extending our love to the estranged parts of ourselves that we’ll be able to fully open our hearts to those who have been wounded so deeply and so painfully.
A range of themes will be explored, including:
- How pop culture can help us access, navigate and negotiate the complex inner world of emotionally wounded children and adolescents.
- How to understand and work with non-verbal communication.
- Strategies to bypass the protective walls they have built around their shame and hurt.
- How to be vulnerable enough to invite a meaningful working alliance, and simultaneously, robust enough to survive intense feelings they trigger in all of us.
- How to give a voice to their unspoken hurt and help them re-author their painful life experiences into a new narrative that is no longer about shame and hurt, but about survival, hope, and triumph.
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Trainers
Hannah Power
David Taransaud
David Taransaud
Hannah is a youth worker, counsellor, and child and adolescent psychotherapist.
Hannah has worked with children, young people and their families for over 20 years, she has worked in statutory and charitable organisations, including clinical, community and educational settings.
She is the founding Director of Room4..., set up to provide trauma recovery focused therapy in the community and to share her understanding of trauma and working with those deemed hard to reach.
Hannah is passionate about all human beings and believes in their capabilities and amazing resourcefulness whilst in the face of adversity. Hannah believes in everyone's ability to not only recover from trauma, but to thrive.
David Taransaud
David Taransaud
David Taransaud
David is a UKCP registered psychotherapeutic counsellor, consultant, author, and trainer with over 20-years’ clinical experience working with young people.
He is the author of:
- ‘You Think I’m Evil: practical strategies for working with rebellious and aggressive adolescents’ (Worth Publishing - 2011)
- ‘I, Monster: positive ways of working with challenging adolescents through understanding the adolescent within us’ (Routledge – 2016)
David also works as a foreign consultant with ‘Alleviate Addiction Suffering’ in Karachi (Pakistan) and travelled to Kitgum (Uganda) where he set up an Art Therapy service in an orphanage for former child soldiers and young people affected by conflict and trauma. His travel journal, ‘Kitgum’s Orphans; Invisible Wounds’ was entered in the Social Impact Media Awards (SIMA 2013). An international documentary and educational impact media award honoring members in the independent film and global humanitarian industry.
Feedback
I would definitely recommend this course to others. It was packed full of information, delivered with great use of metaphor and video inserts, which for me is a particularly useful way of remembering course content. Group discussion was informative.
Hannah is inspirational. Delivering an extremely challenging topic in a way that we could all relate to. I felt very held and safe to explore and express my experiences and that of some of the people I work with, in relation to the topic and content.
This training ignited my passion for what I do and in my awareness of what I already know. It felt very affirming and has left me with lots to consider in how I work with people and my future work roles.
What did you learn?
The creative ways in which the information was presented kept the subject matter interesting and created a safe space to internalise challenging material. It has also enabled me to consider creative ways in which I can share this understanding with individuals towards empowerment and self-awareness in developing their self-mastery for self-regulation and self-esteem.