Interventions
"We encourage people to explore the lens through which they see the world so they can understand how trauma distorts our vision and ability to achieve”
Overview
We believe that the key to change lies within every individual, our strategies and interventions take a self-development approach to understanding why people do what they do, offering new strategies to cope with, and eventually overcome emotional pain.
Our Dignifi Recovery Programme is bespoke to the cohort we are supporting but works on 3 key areas. Developing safety, connection and purpose for everyone who engages. We deliver a minimum 6 sessions that support people to question their internal belief systems and the lens through which they see the world. By delivering psycho-education sessions we help people to understand the changes that happen inside their bodies following experiences of trauma.
When people have suffered significant trauma, the world can feel unsafe, people can seem unkind, and we can feel as though we have lost all sense of belonging, purpose and direction. These trauma symptoms don't require clinical support, they require practical strategies that support people to overcome their feelings about themselves and the world around them. Addressing these issues at an early stage can prevent the development of more significant mental health issues later on.
Would you like Dignifi staff to strengthen your team?
We have a range of service delivery offers that we can work with you to develop. For more information on what this could look like, get in touch.
Dignifi Recovery Programme
The 13 elements of the Dignifi Trauma Recovery Programme
We deliver the Dignifi Recovery Programme to service users who agencies are struggling to engage with, or whose support needs appear too complex for practitioners. Working from the basis of our 13-element recovery programme, a range of prevention and rehabilitation sessions are delivered in a bespoke way, tailoring each meeting to the individual’s immediate needs and what has been happening in their life in the preceding week.
Helping people break out of survival mode
Left unaddressed, childhood or complex trauma leaves people hyper-alert to threat – struggling to judge whether people/situations are safe or threatening. They are therefore easily triggered into fight, flight or freeze responses, which means that they are likely to struggle to engage with most services/practitioners – as they perceive strangers and new environments as threatening. So, we see the vicious circle of living in ‘survival mode’, summarised in the diagram below:
When people have suffered significant trauma, the world can feel unsafe, people can seem threatening and we can feel as though we have lost all sense of belonging, purpose and direction. These trauma symptoms don't require clinical support, they require practical strategies that support people to overcome their feelings about themselves and the world around them. Addressing these issues at an early stage can prevent the development of more significant mental health issues developing.
The Dignifi® Recovery Programme helps people to move out of this ‘survival mode’ that trauma creates. We support clients to stop experiencing fight/flight/freeze responses and to begin developing the capacity to respond to situations calmly, without immediately reacting to painful triggers.
We can deliver our programme on a one-to-one basis, or in groups - as appropriate. Our Dignifi Recovery programme is bespoke to each person/cohort we support, but works on three key areas, developing safety, connection and purpose for everyone who engages with our interventions. We deliver a minimum six sessions that support people to understand their personal experiences of trauma and how it is impacting their life, and to question both their self-limiting belief systems and the lens through which they see the world.
We also provide a three day training programme to support practitioners to deliver this programme.
Train Your Team
Would you like to train your team to deliver our specialist self-development programme?
Proven to support people with complex trauma to become more regulated and move on from the past.
This 3- day specialist practitioners course helps practitioners to feel confident and competent to work with people who have experiences trauma in all its forms. More information on our generic recovery programme can be found on our Training Courses page.