Mental Health and Trauma Sensitive Training

Due to the covid -19 pandemic our event will now be held

ONLINE

November 7/8 and 14/15 on zoom

BLU MATTER PROJECT MENTAL HEALTH AND TRAUMA SENSITIVITY TRAINING

(40 Continuing Education Hours) 

PART 1: MENTAL HEALTH SENSITIVITY

Mental Health Sensitivity Training with Aaron Moore, Janey Brown, Elaine Clark, and, Elizabeth Vecchio

This 20 Hour Workshop is part 1 of the Blu Matter Project Mental Health and Trauma Sensitivity Training Certificate. It will be hosted online through zoom.

KEY THEMES
• Understanding common mental health issues such as Anxiety and Depression
• Breaking down stigma, shame, fear and guilt
• Learning the multi prong approach of treatment including yoga
• Nutrition and mental health
• Domains of a trauma informed yoga class
• Suicide prevention

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

Mental Health Awareness and Understanding

Attendees will be able to understand the nature of the stigma and shame that often accompanies mental health issues, and how it is one of the main barriers to treatment and recovery.

We will define and identify the common mental health issues of addiction, depressive disorders and anxiety disorders, their symptoms, experience, and options for treatment and recovery.

Attendees will learn common factors regarding suicide as part of a suicide prevention workshop, which will give a practical framework for preventing suicide in their community.

Attendees will gain an understanding for how these and other common mental health issues present in the context of yoga practice, specific areas of concern for yoga teachers, and how yoga can be a valuable asset in recovery.

ART 2: TRAUMA SENSITIVE YOGA

Trauma Sensitive Yoga Training with David Emerson

This 20 hour workshop is part 2 of the Blu Matter Project Mental Health and Trauma Sensitivity Training Certificate. This training is being held online through zoom.

KEY THEMES
• Understanding Trauma
• Theoretical underpinning of TCTSY
• Methodology of TCTSY

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

BACKGROUND & FOUNDATION • History of Trauma Diagnostic Frameworks - From PTSD to Complex Trauma • Attachment Theory – Intrapersonal & Interpersonal Relationships & Agency • Trauma Theory – Empowerment & Trauma informed relationships & Memory • Neurophysiology & Biology of Stress and Trauma – How trauma impacts the brain • Spectrum of Trauma Symptoms & Complex Trauma as lived experienced 

What TCTSY brings to treatment  • Tying Theory to Methodology – Understanding the TCTSY Framework • Methods, including creating Safety, the Language of TCTSY, Choice, Interception & Agency • Experience the practice • Teaching experience • Challenges • Research studies 

TCTSY RESPONSIBLE, ACCOUNTABLE & ETHICAL PRACTICE • Scope of Practice for Yoga Teachers & Clinicians • Trauma Practice vs. Trauma Informed vs Trauma Sensitive • Responsible Marketing – Managing Expectations • Adapting a general Yoga Class 

How to introduce elements of TCTYS into one’s Clinical Therapy Practice.

THE WORKSHOP IS A COMBINATION OF THEORY & PRACTICE • Seminar style with space for discussion and reflecting • Teaching & clinical examples • Includes examples from case histories, lived experience, • Small & large group discussion sessions • Practice Teaching • Time for questions and discussions

Cost $795.00  

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