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This is two-day workshop for counsellors, school professionals and educators, service providers, early childhood educators, and family service workers.
This workshop will integrate core principles of neurodevelopment and traumatology to inform work with children, families and the communities in which they live.
Participants will learn to help identify the strengths and vulnerabilities of the children and youth struggling with trauma histories and/or mental health and co-occurring disorders. This workshop will focus on understanding the foundations of trauma and attachment dysregulation. Participants will learn the neurological, physiological, cognitive and emotional impacts of trauma. Considerations through a trauma lens and strategies to promote emotional regulation will result in less stressed systems (both caregiving, management and above) and more supportive co-regulated environments.
- Registration Fee: $299 per person
- Max Capacity: 50 persons
- Length: 2 Days (7 hours each day)
- Date(s): November 19 & 20, 2024
- Venue: Ma-Mow-We-Tak Friendship Centre
- Start Time: 9:00 a.m.
- Facilitators: Dawn Isaac & Sonya Warga
Dawn Isaac |
Dawn Isaac is Anishinaabe-ikwe from Sagkeeng First Nation. She holds a bachelor’s degree in human Ecology and a Masters degree in applied communications. She has several years of experience in research & training with a focus on intergenerational, developmental, and organizational trauma as well as Indigenous issues in both a historical and current context. She is passionate about promoting a wide-spread understanding of trauma-informed and trauma-responsive services as a best practice approach across multiple sectors. Dawn is also committed to advancing Indigenous knowledge(s), resilience, healing practices, and creating safe spaces, as well as fostering reconciliatory relationship building. Dawn spent more than a decade working as part of an intergenerational team (grandmother-mother-granddaughter) facilitating workshops and healing sessions on intergenerational trauma and resilience. Through this transfer of knowledge, she has been part of an interdisciplinary team developing a Reconciled Healing Model as an overarching clinical framework for organizations in the healing and helping profession. Dawn has also worked closely with Dr. Sandra Bloom, to pilot Creating Presence; a new and innovative clinical approach to transform organizations and foster trauma-resilient practices. |
Sonya Warga |
Sonya Warga is the Clinical Director at Marymound, where she has worked since 2016. She obtained her Masters of Marriage and Family Therapy from U of W and had planned to grow a private practice, but after joining Marymound, she discovered a passion for working with youth. Sonya is responsible for supporting the programs and clinicians who work at Marymound by troubleshooting, problem-solving, advocating, and planning the clinical framework of the organization. She believes that every interaction with youth should be therapeutic, whether it is through one-to-one meetings or maintaining a therapeutic environment in group homes. Sonya's work is focused on creating a continuity of approach to generate solidity in the organization. |