This is one-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: $199 per person
• Max Capacity: 50 persons
• Length: 1 Day
• Date(s): October 17th, 2024
• Venue: The George Wright House  - 989 Young Street
• Start Time: 9:00 a.m.
• Facilitator: Sonya Warga 

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.