Spring/Fall 2010 Basic 2-Day Trauma First Aide^TM Trainings

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	Location	Training Facility	Training Date	Instructors	Local Organizer
	Austin Texas	The Austin Centre	Sept 11-12th	Geneie Everett	Janet Everett
			Registration Information
	Santa Fe New Mexico	IHM Retreat and Conference Center	September 24-25 Registration Information	Kristin Sagert Meg Deutsch-DiMari	Janet Everett
	San Diego California	NTC Promenade @ Liberty Station San Diego	Oct 1-2 Registration Information	Geneie Everett	Janet Everett
	San Francisco California	The 'Log Cabin' at the Presidio	Oct 7-8 Registration Information	Geneie Everett	Janet Everett
	Portland Maine	Youth Alternative Ingraham Family Center	Oct 23-24 Registration Information	Geneie Everett	Janet Everett

TFA Basic Class Objectives:

*  Recognize and identify 3 or morephysiological/behavioral indicators of acute traumatic stress 

*  Identify the 3 divisions and basic functions of the brain and their relationship to trauma

*  Define "explicit memory" and "implicit memory" and their relationship to trauma

Who Should Attend?

This training is recommended for individuals who work in high stress environments or in volatile situations including: nurses, therapists, doctors, EMTs/Paramedics, firefighters, law enforcement, military, veterans, teachers, crisis counselors, PT/OT, clergy, educators, Employee Assistance Program managers, risk managers, mediators and disaster workers.  

TRAUMA FIRST AIDE^TM (TFA) is a stabilization model bridging physiology and psychology. Developed as a short term model, TFA teaches skills to reduce symptoms of acute traumatic stress and to stabilize the nervous system in high arousal and urgent situations. TFA is useful for complex trauma, first response, disaster settings, and as a self-care model. TFA skills help health professionals assist their clients reduce their trauma symptoms, giving them a greater sense of self-control. The TFA approach provides direct access to the dysregulated nervous systems of people who have experienced traumatic situations. This allows the establishment of a bridge in the nervous system between survival mode and a return to normal functioning. This workshop explores the nervous system s role in trauma, differences between cognitive and somatic approaches and the effects of trauma beyond mental health. Viewing typical acute traumatic stress symptoms as a dysregulated mind-body system response, we work directly with the trauma symptoms, using an integrative approach. Our focus in TFA is on trauma education, early intervention and the reduction/prevention of secondary traumatization by building resilience in the nervous system.

Current research shows that trauma contributes to more than mental health problems including an array of physical syndromes involving altered pain processing and increased disease in cardio vascular, nervous and gastrointestinal systems.  Recent trauma therapies include working with the nervous system, reestablishing the mind-body connection because trauma is in the nervous system NOT the event!  

TRAUMA FIRST AIDE^TM is also very useful to help reduce or prevent secondary traumatic stress ('compassion fatigue') in helping professionals. Those most susceptible to this reaction are providers that work with traumatized clients and in traumatic settings including: hospitals, first response situations, disasters and battle zones.  The high burnout rate seen in helping professionals may very well be the effects of secondary traumatization. TFA self-care skills are reinforced through practice throughout the class.

TRAUMA FIRST AIDE is based on current research on the impact of trauma on the brain and body and on new findings in somatic psychology, neurology and endocrinology. TFA is inspired by the burgeoning field of mind-body therapeutic interventions including: biofeedback, EMDR, yoga, imagery, meditation and Somatic Experiencing?. TRAUMA FIRST AIDE was developed by Dr. Geneie Everett and her colleagues after working with survivors of the Asian tsunami in Thailand and Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast.

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