workshop

Introduction to Trauma Informed Practice

November 16, 2022

We take a decolonial approach to setting the foundation of this work together, engaging our minds, bodies, emotions and relationships. We focus on learning through experience, and will connect with larger socio-political and historical contexts as well as your own inner world. In this interactive workshop, you can expect to:

// Explore how a trauma-informed approach has roots in Indigenous practices of resistance and resilience

// Connect with your own practices, from your own traditions, in order to do trauma-informed work from a centered space

// Learn how trauma impacts the body and brain – greater knowledge of this enables us to ground ourselves and respond constructively to those who’ve been triggered

// Generate your own “map” of embodied practices that help you find an internal place of connection, safety and dignity

// Explore questions relevant to your setting and context with your peers and experienced practitioners

Details

The session will be held by video-conference (ZOOM).

DATE: Wednesday, November 16, 2022

TIME: 9:00am-1:00pm (Pacific Time)

FEE: $229 (+ GST) per person

Register by November 9 and receive a 10% discount

We encourage participants to schedule some time for reflection, integration of learning and self-care after the workshop.

Who this is for

Enrollment is open to anyone who is interested in increasing their learning in trauma-informed practice. There are no prerequisites for this workshop. Past participants have included: union representatives, human resource professionals, health care workers, counsellors, lawyers, mediators, tribunal members and staff, university administrators, human rights advocates, workplace investigators, those working front-line in high conflict situations, those exposed to vicarious trauma, teachers, policy makers, First Nation partners, and life-long learners.

CPD

Continuing Professional Development credits for this workshop are available with the B.C. Law Society. Please email us if you would like to obtain CPD credits with another regulatory or professional body.

Content advisory

In this session, we will directly explore definitions of trauma and share some examples of personal trauma, including child apprehension, intimate partner violence, and attendance at Indian Residential Schools, including direct and indirect/inter-generational impacts. This information may remind participants of their own experiences and elicit strong emotions. We will provide information for seeking support, and will include regulating and grounding practices within the session to support well-being. We encourage everyone to participate in the workshop at a level they feel comfortable with, including taking a break, seeking emotional support, and re-joining as needed.

meet your teachers

Karen Snowshoe

Karen Snowshoe is a lawyer, mediator, adjudicator and educator. Since 2009, Ms. Snowshoe has provided Adjudication services (claims of first instance and appeals) and Mediation services across Canada. Her clients have included the Indian Residential School Adjudication Secretariat, the Northwest Territories Human Rights Adjudication Panel, the Workers’ Compensation Tribunal, the BC Human Rights Tribunal, Law Society of British Columbia Tribunal, governments (Provincial, Municipal and Indigenous), post secondary institutions, unions, health authorities, social service agencies and non-profit organizations.

Ms. Snowshoe is a leader in providing trauma-informed and culturally sensitive investigations. As senior counsel with the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirited People (MMIWG2S). Ms. Snowshoe built, trained and led a national team of statement gatherers who conducted trauma-informed interviews across Canada.

Ms. Snowshoe is a highly sought after educator in trauma-informed practice. Her customized workshops on Indigenous Reconciliation and Trauma Informed Practice have garnered widespread acclaim for inspiring participants to engage in reconciliation in a way that honours the humanity and dignity of all.

In 2018, Ms. Snowshoe was elected as a Bencher (Governor) of the Law Society of British Columbia. Having served two terms, Ms. Snowshoe brought a unique perspective to the governance of the Law Society. Ms. Snowshoe is the first-Indigenous woman to be elected as a Bencher in the Law Society’s history.

Ms. Snowshoe has been a long-time resident on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, today known as Vancouver. She also lived and worked in Canada’s north (the Yukon and the Northwest Territories) for 14 years.

Thoko Moyo

Thoko Moyo [Pronounced: Toh-Coh Moi-Yo] has a masters degree in Counselling Psychology and is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the B.C Association of Clinical Counsellors. The foundation of her practice is centred around Anti Oppresive Practice, Intersectional Feminist Theory, Trauma Informed and Narrative Theory. That means, that as a black, queer, gender fluid, able-bodied person, she practices entirely through a world view that understands the value of empowerment and radical self-love for those of navigating current oppressive societal systems.

Telling our stories, re-telling our stories and learning about the history of the past generations of our stories she has always known that merely existing in the counselling world as a Black Queer Person would be an act of radicalization and resistance, and it has been an empowering and expansive experience to say the least. She is here to dismantle and disrupt the oppressive ways in which counselling, education and consulting currently exists.