School of Sound Canada ~ Core Content
Trauma Informed Workshop
Course Description
Begin your journey to becoming a trauma-informed practitioner with this comprehensive introductory workshop. Learn about trauma, what trauma-informed care consists of and how to apply it to the practitioner/client relationship and interactions. Explore how loving-kind awareness of our own trauma-responses and that of others can help us build a foundation as a trauma-informed practitioner.
Course Objectives
- Challenge common myths through learning about trauma and providing care in a trauma-informed manner.
- Learn what happens in our body/mind as a result of trauma, including how the body holds trauma.
- Learn about the window of tolerance and begin to explore what it looks like when we and others are in the window of tolerance or not.
- Identify some ways that trauma can reveal itself in the practitioner/client experience.
- Learn the foundational aspects of providing trauma-informed care.
- Begin to identify how to apply these aspects to different stages of your professional practice.
- Identify how you can continue to grow as a trauma-informed practitioner.
meet your instructor
Michelle Klein
Michelle M. Klein, a 2009 graduate of the Pennsylvania State University, is the owner of Michelle Klein Counseling LLC, located in State College, Pennsylvania. She provides holistic counseling and coaching services to adults within Trauma-Informed interventions and therapies such as IFS (Internal Family Systems), Ego-State Parts Work, Somatic and Poly-Vagal Informed Therapy. She particularly enjoys working with young adults transitioning from college to the career world. Within this area she works with students of diverse cultural, ethnic, and social backgrounds. She has particular experience with empowering her clients to maneuver the school and employment worlds as a minority, a neuro-diverse learner/thinker and/or a member of the LGBTQIA+ community in the manner that is most genuine to themselves. Prior to starting her solo practice in July of 2014, Michelle worked in Community-Based Mental Health as an Outpatient Therapist, an Inpatient Therapist and a Mobile Therapist. Additionally, Michelle worked as a fixed-term School Counselor in the Bald Eagle Area and Penns Valley school districts. Michelle’s philosophy is shaped not only by her training and experience in providing counseling services, but also by her diverse life experience as an advocate and volunteer, and within her first career as a documentary photographer. Michelle is excited and honored to teach the Trauma-Informed Workshop for Rooted in Sound’s School of Sound Medicine. She firmly believes that a Trauma-Informed world is essential to all our futures.
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