Creating a Trauma-Informed Workplace
January 18th, 25th, and February 1st: the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits is offering “Creating a Trauma-Informed Workplace”:
“Acknowledging and effectively intervening in stress and trauma builds a resilient workforce better able to manage crisis in our lives, organization, and community. But what does it mean to be trauma-informed, and how can nonprofits build such an environment for their own teams?
In this workshop, participants will:
- Learn a shared vocabulary of trauma-informed language
- Define and learn research-based strategies to prevent vicarious trauma (including second-hand trauma exposure for indirect service staff)
- Develop skills around individual coping and resilience
- Explore what it means to be a trauma-informed workplace through a community care model
- Apply principles of trauma-informed workplace to your organization
- Identify and implement the 8 components of Trauma-informed supervision
- Implement all of these concepts and skills in a strengths-based framework grounded in the understanding of and response to the impact of trauma to approach relationships
This workshop is geared toward supervisors looking to build their skills in recognizing and managing stress responses.
Please note that this training takes place over the course of three days, January 18, 25, & February 1, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. central each day.“