Training Opportunities

TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES

For details of training and professional development opportunities within our network, please click here

For other training opportunities, please click here

For updates of training opportunities for ISVAs (Independent Sexual Violence Advisers), please click here

TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN OUR NETWORK

CIS'ters training seminar
Wednesday 31st March
How to listen so children will talk
This training seminar will explore isues relating to how children try to communicate with those around them that things are not ok
Times: Registration 9.30am
Start at 10am
Finish at 4.30pm
Where: Eastpoint Centre, Burgoyne Road, Southampton, SO19 6PB

ABOUT THE SEMINAR:
How to listen so children will talk ! Children and Young People try to tell or communicate in many ways, many of them not including speech. Adults need to be able to be with a child in a way that enables the child or young person to feel comfortable and heard on many levels. It should not be the child or young person's fault if the adult fails in this and the child or young person is not able to tell or to be heard.
It will include information about how children and young people tell, what stops children and young people from telling, neurobiology, blame, shame, ‘telling' behaviours and attachment. This will include how to listen when a child or young person has no speech.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
This seminar will benefit anyone who works with or cares for children and young people, whether a parent or a professional. It will be particularly useful for: social workers, teachers, police, staff working within CAMHs or Connexions or SureStart or Youth Advisory Services, child protection leads/agencies, psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists and counsellors working within the statutory and non-statutory sector.

EVENT ORGANISERS:
CIS'ters Training Office
Tel: 023 80 338080
Email: admin@cisters.org.uk or gfinch@cisters.org.uk

ABOUT THE TRAINER
Norma Howes is a Social Worker, Child Forensic Psychologist and Sensorimotor Psychotherapist. Norma is involved in training police, social workers, health and education staff on all aspects of childhood trauma and abuse. She has a private practice working with adults and children most of whom have experienced severe childhood trauma. She has worked in the field of trauma, mental health and dissociation for more than twenty years and has researched the impact of dissociation on memory and the implications this has for both civil and criminal court proceedings. Norma was also a member of a Child Trauma Team one day a week for twelve years where she was involved in both assessment and therapeutic services for children who had experienced Type 1 and Type 2 trauma. She has a special interest in the impact of trauma, abuse and dissociation on attachment and consequent behaviours following child abuse and domestic violence.

Please click here for more information and a booking application form

Grimsby and Scunthorpe Rape Crisis & The It's My Right Service
Annual Conference 2010

THE IMPACT OF DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE ON THE MENTAL HEALTH OF MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN

Monday 29th March 2010, 9am - 1pm
Reeds Hotel, Barton upon Humber, North Lincolnshire, DN18 5RG

Keynote Speakers
Davina James-Hanman
Director - Greater London Domestic Violence Project
Davina was the first local authority domestic violence co-ordinator in the UK. From 2000-08 she had responsibility for developing and implementing the London domestic violence for the Mayor of London. She has also worked as a consultant for many public and voluntary sector organisations and is a lay inspector for HMCPSI, a member of the attorney-generals diversity advisory group and acted as the specialist adviser to the home affaires select committee inquiry into domestic violence (2007-08) she recently completed a year long secondment at the home office to assist with the development of the first National Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy.

Gillian Finch
National Development Officer - The Survivors Trust
The Survivors Trust has been recognised by the Department of Health, Home Office and Ministry of Justice - as a national voice for agencies within the specialist voluntary sector that are providing support to victims/survivors of rape and/or sexual abuse. Gillian is also the founder and National Co Ordinator of CISters which provides emotional support for females (age 18+) who were sexually abused, as children (including rape) by a member of their immediate or extended family. She has been a member of a number of national steering/stakeholder groups, the most recent has been as a member of two sub groups associated with the soon to be published 'Health Aspects of Violence and Abuse Against Women and Children'.

The event will also include information on the services offered by Grimsby and Scunthorpe Rape Crisis and The Its My Right, Independent Domestic Violence Advocate (IDVA) and Independent Sexual Violence Advisor Service (ISVA) including new referral pathways.

Please click here for a booking form

For further information please call Katie Hornsby on 01724 853953 or email katie.rapecrisis@btconnect.com

HATE CRIME - THE WAY FORWARD. ARE WE NEARLY THERE YET?
30 MARCH 2010
DERBY UNIVERSITY
KEDLESTON ROAD, DERBY DE22 1GB

VOICE UK invites you to take part in a thought provoking and informative day at
Derby University, the outcome of which is to develop a proposal on hate crime.

Keynote speakers include:

Superintendent Paul Giannasi, Office of Criminal Justice Reform, Race, Confidence and Justice Unit

Professor John Grieve, Professor of Criminology, Portsmouth University

Assistant Chief Constable Drew Harris, Police Service, Northern Ireland.

Complete the booking form here as soon as possible to secure your place.
For further details, contact Rebecca Sumpter, Administration Manager, on 01332 291042 or email voice@voiceuk.org.uk

Bristol Crisis Service for Women
WORKING WITH PEOPLE WHO SELF-INJURE WORKSHOPS

On Tuesday 20 April and Wednesday 28 April 2010 we are running informative and participative one-day workshops:

• Of interest to workers from statutory and voluntary sector agencies, who work with people who self-injure or who want to learn more about the issue
• A chance to discuss and share experiences
• An opportunity to learn from our extensive work with women who self-injure

Topics covered will include:
• Why do people self-injure?
• What are their needs?
• What issues does self-injury raise for workers?
• Responding helpfully

Cost:
Includes lunch and refreshments.
£125 statutory, independent and large voluntary organizations (10+ employees)
£95 other voluntary organizations and individuals

Further information and booking form can be found by clicking here or contact: bcsw@btconnect.com or: 0117 927 9600

Training Opportunities with Fylde Coast Men's Support Association

Wednesday 17th March 2010. (Self-Harm Awareness) This workshop looks at the issue of Self-Harm / Injury, and how to provide support to people that Self-Injure.
Time 10.am till 4.pm. Held at: Trinity Baptist Church, Poulton Road, Fleetwood, Lancashire, FY7 7AA. Costs per delegate = £15.00, Reductions for Un-waged, Volunteers and Students. (includes refreshments - but not lunch.)

Wednesday 21st April 2010. (Supporting Male Survivors) This one day workshop looks into the issues that Male Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Rape and Domestic / Partner Abuse face, and how best to support / help them.
Time 10.am till 4.pm. Held at: Trinity Baptist Church, Poulton Road, Fleetwood, Lancashire, FY7 7AA. Cost per delegate = £15.00, Reductions available. (includes refreshments - but not lunch).

Wednesday 19th May 2010. (Understanding Depression) This training day looks into the issues of Depression, Stress and also Anxiety, and how to support people with these problems.
Time 10.am till 4.pm. Held at Trinity Baptist Church, Poulton Road, Fleetwood, Lancashire, FY7 7AA. Cost per delegate = £15.00, Reductions available. (refreshments included - but not lunch.)

To book your place, please contact: Fylde Coast Men's Support Association. PO Box 126, Fleetwood, Lancashire FY7 6WN. or Tel: 07932 898274 or email: fcmsa@yahoo.co.uk

CIS'ters C.I.S. Training Course
3 Linked Workshops (9.30am-4pm)
£150

Session 1 - Thursday 11th March 2010
What is sexual abuse
Prevalence
Myths & Stereotypes
Abuser theories
Prevention & Detection

Session 2 - Thursday 25th March 2010
Survival Skills (including self-harm)
Counting the Losses
Crime & Memory

Session 3 - Thursday 22nd April 2010
Managing Disclosures (Adult Survivors)
Retraumatisation/Revictimisation
Unresolved Issues
The Reality of Letting Go

Target audience. All sectors. Individuals working with/supporting child victims or adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. These workshops are linked, providing delegates with an opportunity to discuss/explore core issues. The training team will include survivors. Lunch is not provided. Venue: Eastleigh, Hampshire

Click here for more information

We can also provide bespoke training (contact admin@cisters.org.uk for more information)

Eaves' Scarlet Centre in south London offers advice, support, counselling, and other services to women from across London. We've got an exciting range of free workshops and events coming up this autumn, including:

• Free and low cost qualifications advice - Hillcroft College at Eaves
• Understanding and managing panic attacks
• Complementary therapies for women affected by violence
• Communicating with confidence
• One to one computer training for beginners
• Weekly yoga and meditation
• How to access health services
• Moving on and managing change
• Healthy body, healthy life - Health day extravaganza
• Scarlet centre grand launch party - details to be announced!

Full details can be found by clicking here, call 020 7840 7142 to book now!

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES OUTSIDE OF OUR MEMBERSHIP NETWORK

CPD Programme re working with complex trauma and dissociation
Compiled by ESTD UK Training Faculty

Overall aim: To collaborate with relevant organisations in the development of CPD training in this specialist areaof practice .
Overall learning objective: To enable practitioners from a range of disciplines and levels of experience in the helping professions to provide trauma-informed care for persons suffering from complex post-traumatic conditions and dissociation.

If you would like to see any of the courses detailed below run in your locality or organisation, please contact Sue Richardson by phone ( 01642 817658) or email SueRichardson1@compuserve.com

Courses

2 day workshop on dissociative processes and therapeutic use of self: Part 1
Trainer : Val Wosket
Learning objectives: By the end of the course, participants will:
• Understand the links between trauma and dissociation
• Be able to identify and respond to a range of dissociative presentations
• Understand the basic psychophysiology of trauma and dissociation
• Understand the stage oriented approach to working with trauma and dissociation and practise a range of stage one strategies for stabilisation and symptom reduction
• Develop awareness of issues impacting on the establishment of an effective working alliance with dissociative clients
• Explore the impact of the therapist's self on the client's process and develop ways of enhancing the intentional and effective use of self with dissociative clients
• Understand the limits of their own competence and the importance of attending to their needs for supervision, training and support in working with trauma and dissociation

No previous experience or working with complex stress and dissociation is required for this course.

1 day workshop: Understanding Dissociation
Trainers : First Person Plural
Learning objectives:
By the end of the day, participants will have:
• Raised their awareness of dissociation and its role in surviving trauma
• Considered the impact on the survivor of non- recognition
• Been introduced to screening tools
• Gained practical ideas for supporting person suffering from dissociation
• Expanded their understanding of all of the above from the survivor's perspective
This course can be freestanding or act as a linking course to Val's Stage 2 . No previous experience or working with complex stress and dissociation is required.

1 day workshop: Introduction to dissociation in children
Trainer: Renee Marks
Learning objectives:
By the end of the day, participants will understand:
• The development of self in the infant.
• The impact of the disorganized attachment on the developing self
• The impact of childhood trauma with specific reference to complex trauma.
• How children defend themselves against the disorganized attachment and childhood trauma.

No prior knowledge and experience of dissociation is required for this course. It is complements all the introductory level training and is suitable for:
• anyone wanting to an introduction to the origins of dissociation in childhood
• those who work with or care for traumatised children
• those who work with or care for traumatised adults
• those who work in fostering or adoption.

3 day workshop on dissociative processes and therapeutic use of self: Part 2
Trainer : Val Wosket
Learning objectives: By the end of the course, participants will:
By the end of the day, participants will:
• Understand and be able to recognise different degrees of trauma and dissociation
• Make an informed judgement about whether a client would benefit from a formal assessment for complex dissociative disorders, including dissociative identity disorder (DID)
• Understand the importance of establishing and maintaining an effective therapeutic frame
• Explore boundary issues and understand the importance of maintaining appropriate therapeutic boundaries with trauma clients
• Recognise patterns of secure and insecure attachment central to the client's experience
• Identify and respond appropriately to commonly experienced transference and counter-transference experiences, including the use and mis-use of self-disclosure
• Explore how to respond appropriately to issues of touch, holding and sexual material when working with dissociative and trauma clients
• Facilitate negotiation and communication between split off parts of the person (including alter personality states)
• Gain knowledge and understanding of how to effectively pace trauma narratives
• Gain a working knowledge of the SIBAM model of integrating traumatic memories
• Have some understanding of when the client may have sufficient experience of integration and/or co-operative communication with split off parts to move towards the third phase of therapy.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of their current arrangements for supervision, self-care and further training and think proactively about enhancing these where necessary.

This course is for participants who have undertaken workshop 1 on ‘dissociative process and the therapeutic use of self' or who have good understanding, experience and/or training in the phase-oriented approach to working with trauma and dissociation.

1 day workshop on assessment of dissociative conditions
Trainer : Remy Aquarone
Learning objectives:
By the end of the day, participants will:
• be able to evaluate the severity of dissociative symptoms in clients/patients
• diagnose any of the 5 Dissociative Disorders under DSM IV
• make realistic recommendations for treatment based on the assessment.
This course is for participants with or without prior experience of working with trauma and dissociation. It complements all of the introductory training courses above and is especially suitable for those whose role includes the assessment of mental health conditions .

1 day workshop on the supervision of complex trauma and dissociation
Trainer : Sue Richardson
Learning objectives:
By the end of the day, participants will have:
• Explored an attachment -based perspective of the supervisory process
• Examined the impact of traumatic material on professional caregiving and careseeking as a supervisor and/or supervisee
• Considered challenges to ethical and practice frameworks posed by work with complex trauma
• Been provided with peer support and consultation
Some experience of working with or supervising work with complex stress and/or dissociation is required for this course. No previous knowledge of attachment theory is necessary.

1 day workshop on working with complex trauma and dissociation: Impact on the practitioner
Trainer : Sue Richardson
Learning objectives: By the end of the day, participants will:
• Understand the concept of secondary traumatic stress as a natural response to working
with traumatised and troubled clients.
• Be able to explain the differences and similarities between secondary traumatic stress
compassion stress, compassion fatigue, burnout, PTSD and vicarious traumatisation.
• Have undertaken a self assessment
• Have tools for preventing the development of secondary stress symptoms

This course complements all of the above proposals.

1 day workshop: Attachment and Dissociation
Trainer : Sue Richardson

Learning objectives: By the end of the day, participants will:

• understand the developmental origins of dissociation in childhood from an
attachment perspective
• have explored different attachment patterns common to traumatised children and adults
• be able to identify attachment patterns in a dissociated person
• informed their practice with an attachment-based definition of dissociation
• Been introduced to ways of repairing attachment trauma by:
- therapeutic approaches to the dissociated self as a careseeking and caregiving system
- ways of addressing effective and ineffective external and internal careseeking and caregiving
- working with attachment to the perpetrator(s)

This course is for participants who have undertaken some prior training in working with trauma and dissociative process. It complements the 4 day training on Affect Regulation and the Use of Self (below). No previous knowledge of attachment theory is necessary.

4 day course : Affect regulation and the use of self ( 2 x 2 day blocks)
Trainer : Remy Aquarone
Learning objectives:
By the end of the course participants will:

• have a sound clinical framework for working with dissociative clients.
• understand fundamental issues of boundaries, transference and counter transference
reactions
• be able to facilitate internal communication within a dissociative inner world.
This course extends the workshops on ‘dissociative process and the therapeutic use of self'. It requires participants to be working with a dissociative client.
Complementary training resources available in collaboration with the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation ( ISSTD) and members of its UK training faculty

Note: These training modules are usually restricted to 12 -15 participants

ISSTD introductory seminar course: Complex PTSD
Length: 6 x 2.5 hour seminars at monthly intervals
Trainer : A member of ISSTD UK Faculty ( Sue Masters, Sue Richardson or Val Wosket)
Learning objectives:
By the end of the course, participants will have:
• Reviewed the history of trauma studies and explored the effects of abuse, terror, captivity, and neglect on the developing mind.
• Reviewed diagnostic categories and symptoms of acute and post-traumatic stress disorders and the dissociative disorders.
• Surveyed the neurobiology of trauma and dissociation and the role of infant attachment in developmental trauma and dissociation.
• Reviewed trauma and the organization of a dissociative self.
• Understood memory in the aftermath of trauma, phase/stage oriented trauma treatment, and working with delayed recall of memory of abuse.
• Described typical transference and counter-transference constellations, vicarious traumatization, enactment and therapist self disclosure and non-disclosure.
• Learned how to identify and maintain clinical boundaries and manage suicidal and parasuicidal behavior.
• Surveyed the legal and ethical issues in trauma treatment.
• Been provided with a brief overview of specialized treatment methods: cognitive-behavioral treatments, hypnosis, EMDR, somatic approaches, interpersonal, intersubjective, and psychodynamic approaches.

This course complements Val's 2 day workshop on dissociative processes and therapeutic use of self: Part 1 by providing a more extensive grounding in theoretical and practice frameworks. It is preferable for participants to be working with complex stress or dissociation. .

ISSTD Standard seminar course: Assessment and treatment of dissociation
Length: 9 x 2.5 hour seminars at monthly intervals
Trainer : A member of ISSTD UK Faculty ( Sue Masters, Sue Richardson or Val Wosket)
Learning objectives:
• To provide participants with sufficient knowledge and skills to be able to assess dissociative conditions and to provide therapeutic help.
• To provide peer support and case discussion
This course complements Val's 3 day workshop on dissociative processes and therapeutic use of self: Part 2 by providing a more extensive grounding in theoretical and practice frameworks and case discussion. It requires participants to be working with a dissociative client.

ISSTD Advanced seminar course: Treatment of dissociation
Length: 9 x 2.5 hour seminars at monthly intervals
Trainer : A member of ISSTD UK Training Faculty ( Sue Richardson)
Learning objectives:
• To explore at a more advanced level the objectives of the Standard course
• To further develop skills in the treatment of dissociation
• To provide peer support and case discussion
Trainer : A member of ISSTD UK Training Faculty ( Sue Richardson)
This course complements all previous workshops and seminars on work with dissociation by providing a more extensive grounding in theoretical and practice frameworks. It requires participants to be working with a dissociative client and to have completed the ISSTD Standard course .

ISSTD seminar course: Working with dissociated children and adolescents
Length: 9 x 2.5 hour seminars at monthly intervals
Trainer : A member of ISSTD UK Training Faculty ( Renee Marks )
Learning objectives:
At the end of this experience, participants will:
• have sufficient knowledge to be able to diagnose dissociative symptoms and disorders in traumatized children and adolescents
• have essential knowledge and skills needed to conduct individual psychotherapy to treat complex trauma in children and adolescents
• be able to work with caregivers and to interface with other pertinent professionals in the child's life.
• have a comprehensive understanding of how to intervene with the traumatized child with dissociative symptoms to promote healthy development.
This is a new and pioneering course currently being piloted in the UK.
Compiled by Sue Richardson, Training Co-ordinator, ESTD UK .

If you would like to see any of these courses run in your locality or organisation, please contact Sue by phone ( 01642 817658) or email SueRichardson1@compuserve.com

Training Update for Independent Sexual Violence Advisers (ISVAs) and Advocacy Workers

The Survivors Trust and CRISIS POINT

Independent Sexual Violence Advisor Training Programme

The Survivors Trust and CRISIS POINT have come together to develop a comprehensive Training Programme for Independent Sexual Violence Advisors (ISVAs) and ISVA Service Managers. We would like to acknowledge the valuable advice and feedback provided by Rape Crisis England and Wales ISVA leads in the development process.

We now aim to pilot both training programmes with the ISVA Service Manager Programme taking place in 2010 and the ISVA Training Programme soon after (dates to be confirmed). Places are limited to a maximum of ten students on each pilot course, offered at a substantially subsidised rate for member agencies of The Survivors Trust.

The ISVA and ISVA Service Manager Training Programmes have been specifically designed to provide key learning and course material to ensure students are equipped to meet the requirements, demands and challenges of delivering effective ISVA practice and provision for working with victims and survivors of all forms of sexual violence and childhood sexual abuse.

Students will benefit from a range of learning opportunities, including use of case studies, role play, group discussions, observation, reflective logs, written and practical assessment.

Successful students will gain an accredited qualification at Level 3 with the Open College Network, equivalent to GCSE A level.

Please click here for further information and click here for a booking form