Create safer spaces for your students and clients and take your practice to the next level.
If you are an educator or a health professional who wants to be empowered to create greater physical, psychological, and emotional safety for your students and clients, this online masterclass will show you how.
I’m sure you chose your current profession because you wanted to help people, to help them learn and grow and achieve a sense of health and wellbeing. Sadly, whilst you might think your classroom or office is a safe place, it could potentially feel very unsafe to the people you work with especially people who have experienced trauma.
Trauma is not a rare occurrence, it is all around you! If you work in a school, health system, or just about anywhere then you are already encountering people who have experienced trauma, whether you know it or not. Many millions of people in Australia are impacted by trauma, and yet how often do you stop to consider if the person you’re meeting or speaking with has experienced it?
What’s surprising is that if you are like most professionals then your education and training didn’t equip you to understand trauma in your work. The power differences that are often set up by healthcare, community/human services, and educational systems can even be re-traumatising and many of the practices such as touching, invasive questioning, and behavioural expectations can remind a person of previous abuse or betrayal.
Hi, I’m Kerrin Bradfield
I believe that with the right support, parents, caregivers, and educators can provide quality sexuality education.
As a parent, clinical sexologist, and accredited sexuality educator with several decades experience I've just about seen and heard it all. I know how hard it can be to talk about relationships and sexuality.
For the last 6 years I've worked in a rape crisis centre and have come to understand just how important it is that educators and other professionals understand how to work with trauma as well as how to avoid doing further harm.
Research has shown that services that utilise trauma-informed practice achieve better outcomes such as improved educational achievement, and most importantly a sense of belonging and relationship.
Is this something you would like for the people you are helping?
Beginning your journey to being trauma-informed can take you from doing harm to doing healing and it doesn’t have to mean drastic changes to your practice or service delivery. In fact, once you understand trauma and the basics of trauma-informed practice you are already on your way.
"This is your chance to learn the skills to make your students or clients feel safer, break cycles of trauma by creating connection, and improve health outcomes"
Course Curriculum
Imagine...
If you could keep trauma on your radar and really begin creating safer spaces for everyone you meet, including the most vulnerable.
How much better would it make you feel if you left work each day knowing you have actively avoided doing harm through your words or actions?
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Describe what is at the heart of trauma-informed and healing centred work
- Identify types of trauma and take the brain and body’s response to violence into account
- Recognise vulnerable populations
- Use the language of trauma and healing in your own work
- Take a holistic approach and implement practical strategies for your students/clients and communities
The Mini Masterclass covers the foundational pieces of a trauma-informed practice.