Training & Development

We offer a range of training programs to contribute in improving engagement, wellbeing and productivity.

Our Trauma-Responsive Training supports clients to build their capacity to effectively respond to children and young people's needs.

Working in roles that support others can be deeply rewarding—but it can also take a toll. This training supports participants to build their understanding of vicarious trauma, as well as develop strategies for maintaining personal resilience, professional effectiveness, and overall wellbeing.

 

This training is designed to help parents and caregivers to deepen their understanding of children’s behaviour through a neuroscience perspective, providing tools and strategies to enhance their bond and sustain a healthy relationship along the way. 

 

Create a workplace where every brain belongs. This workshop is designed to equip you with the tools and insights to build a more inclusive, supporting and high-functioning work environment.

 

Organisational Capacity Building

Connected Self is an approved training organisation for the Responding to Risks of Harm, Abuse and Neglect training.

This is the second half of the mandatory notification training covered in the online fundamentals course, and is a requirement for staff employed in schools and children’s services in South Australia.

Transformational Leadership

Our Trauma-Responsive Leadership workshop focuses on equipping leaders with the skills to guide trauma-responsive cultures within their organisation or business.

Participants will learn how to lead with compassion, while promoting resilience and wellbeing in their teams.

Polyvagal Practices

Polyvagal practices aim to enhance physiological regulation, restore a sense of safety, and promote engagement through autonomic nervous system regulation.

This enhances social and emotional learning, including recognising and regulating emotions (from a physiological lens) and developing empathy for others.

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PACE

Developed as part of attachment-focused family therapy, PACE is a trauma-informed approach aiming to create safe, trusting, emotionally connected relationships with children and adolescents who have experienced trauma or attachment difficulties. PACE stands for:

Playfulness

  • Approaching with an open, ready, calm, relaxed and engaged attitude.
  • Not taking yourself/situations too seriously.
  • Diffusing difficult/tense situations.

Acceptance

  • Unconditionally accepting the current state/mood/behaviour.
  • Accepting that there are things unseen that lie below behaviour.
  • Acceptance supports feeling secure, safe and loved

Curiosity

  • Understanding the child gently and without judgement.
  • Supporting child to bring awareness to their inner life.
  • Wondering statements.

Empathy

  • A sense of compassion and understanding for young person’s feelings and thoughts.

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