This training will support participants
in developing tools and strategies to strengthen their relational competence
when working with system-involved youth and families or youth at high risk of
system involvement. Through a somatic-based approach, participants will explore
how increased awareness of their own bodily responses can support greater
presence, regulation, and relational attunement in high-stakes and relationally
complex situations. Participants will examine how somatic
awareness can support stable relationships, and reduce harm when engaging with
youth, and families. Through guided reflection and collective practice,
participants will explore how working from the body can support more effective
communication and relationship-building, particularly when responding to
stress, conflict, trauma, and other experiences that may affect children's
functioning and well-being. Participants will leave with concrete somatic and
nervous system support strategies to increase their capacity for presence,
regulation, and relational attunement when working with children, youth, and
families. Participants will learn how awareness of their own nervous system
responses can strengthen relational competence and communication skills,
support healthy relationships and child safety, and inform trauma-responsive
interactions.
Training Objectives:
? Participants
will be able to acquire knowledge about the definition of what somatics and
somatic practices mean, and explain 1-2 ways that body-based awareness can
support culturally competent, trauma-informed practice in child welfare
settings.
? Participants
will be able to understand the importance of repetition and practice in
becoming more embodied and regulated while working with system involved youth,
and will be able identify 1-2 examples of how their body has responded under
stress when working with youth who are system involved or at high risk of
system involvement in order to increase relational competence
? Participants
will explain 2-3 daily grounding practices that they can utilize to increase
their own somatic alignment, as well as identify practices that they can
utilize when feeling under pressure or stress while working with system
involved youth in order to support child safety and trauma-responsive
interactions when working with youth and families
How can participants
utilize their new skills and knowledge after the training to reinforce their
learning?
? Participants
can utilize and practice somatic strategies in their daily life and with system
involved youth or youth who are at high risk of system involvement to support
culturally competent and trauma-informed communication in child welfare
settings
? Participants
can share their somatic responses and regulation practices with others to
foster effective communication skills and build more emotionally attuned
relationships with coworkers, and system- involved youth and families.
