Queering Trauma-Informed Practice: 1 day

Suitable for: Practitioners, Counsellors, Family Violence Workers, Homelessness & Housing Support Workers, Alcohol & Other Drugs Workers, Mental Health Workers, Peer Workers, Students.

This one-day training provides foundational knowledge and skills training on Trauma-Informed Practice approaches, with a focus on working with LGBTQIA+ people.

Belinda draws on an intersectional queer feminist framework, Trauma & Violence-Informed Practice, the neurobiology of trauma and somatic-based trauma response practices to present a dynamic workshop aimed at practice application. Queering TIP approaches will be embedded throughout the whole day. The workshop covers how to work with:

• Science - foundational neurobiology of trauma and its impact on the body

• Self - role of the individual practitioner in creating and accessing safety

• Systems - intersections of systemic oppression in compounding impacts of trauma

• Sustainability - worker agency in countering impacts of vicarious trauma

• Impact of Minority Stress & LGBTQIA+ experience

• Legacy of the ‘Triangle of Oppression’ - mad, bad & dangerous

• Queering responses, queering thinking, creating safety

Prerequisites for this training:

All participants are required to have previously completed:

LGBTQIA+ Inclusion Training (foundational understanding of gender identity and expression, sexuality, and inclusive safer practices for working with LGBTQIA+ people)