Training Courses
Overview
We offer a range of training courses that are prewritten and have been delivered before to other organisations. These are detailed below. However, we also offer organisations the offer of a bespoke training course that will be designed and adapted to meet the issues you would like to address and/or place more emphasis on areas. Once we have a clear understanding of your training needs and the target audience, we will develop a learning and training offer that is the best fit in terms of cost, target audience and practice development.
Training and learning are made up of a range of inputs dependant on what your teams need. We can offer:
Face to face events (conferences, seminars, workshops)
Webinars and online training session for specific professional groups as well as multi-agency audiences
Web-tutorials/workshops to support discussion and reflective practice
Pre-recorded webcasts/video
E-learning courses and/or supporting your organisation to develop your own courses
System leader events and briefings
Our Courses
We offer a range of training and support to help people understand the impact of trauma upon themselves and people who use services. Grounded in lived experience and over 25 years of supporting people with complex needs, our services promote a self-development approach to trauma recovery.
We work closely with delegates to develop their understanding of and compassion for people who have experienced trauma. We help them build more trusting relationships with people and intervene more effectively – whilst taking care of their own emotional well-being.
Course: Compassionate Leadership
Dignifi’s Compassionate Leadership half-day course explores trauma-informed and responsive approaches for managers to better support their teams. The course highlights the importance of self-compassion for managers and leaders and explores behaviours that are congruent with becoming a compassionate leader. Delegates learn techniques for regulating their own nervous systems and mapping personal resources to promote wellbeing offering tools that they can deliver with their teams. Overall, the course aims to equip managers with the knowledge and tools to lead with authenticity and compassion so they can cultivate resilient, trauma-responsive teams.
This course can be delivered online or in person.
Aims
By the end of this half day course, you will have:
Reviewed the links between trauma, secondary trauma and workforce challenges.
Understand the National and Local Context.
Explored what is Compassionate Leadership?
Understood the Role of Compassionate Leadership in Creating Psychological Safety.
Understand the importance of resourcing ourselves to do difficult work.
Course: Awareness Training (and briefings)
This one-day Trauma Awareness training (and the manual that accompanies it) provides detailed insight into trauma and the many ways it affects people over their lifetime. We examine developmental and complex trauma, the autonomic nervous system and fight, flight and freeze responses – as well as long-term symptoms of trauma and their interplay with risk and offending behaviours.
Aims
By the end of this course, you will:
Have increased understanding of trauma and how it impacts upon a person’s perceptions, thinking, emotional regulation and behaviour.
Be better able to recognise when trauma is impacting someone’s life.
Understand the links between trauma and offending behaviour.
Appreciate the need to embed trauma responsive approaches in your everyday practice.
We also provide three hour briefing sessions for managers – covering the main messages from the training so that you have sufficient awareness of trauma to be able to support your staff in the delivery of their work. These briefing sessions can also be an important starting point for considering how your organisation could become more trauma-responsive as a whole.
Course: Recovery Training
This half-day training (and the accompanying manual) helps you to develop your skills in helping service users understand and manage their own trauma. Much of that requires skilful management of your relationship with them – and so we focus on building trust and rapport, managing boundaries, compassion and reflective practice.
Aims
By the end of this course, you will:
Have an increased understanding of how trauma can be managed.
Recognise when trauma is affecting your work with service users.
Know how to manage interactions between yourself and service users.
Be able to embed trauma responsive approaches in your everyday practice.
Course: Dignifi Recovery Programme Training
This is a three day course that teaches participants about the 13 elements of the Dignifi® trauma recovery programme. Designed to be introduced and supported by practitioners working with people across a range of settings, the Dignifi recovery programme takes a self-development approach: empowering people who have experienced trauma to take ownership of their own recovery journey.
Working through the client workbook and the practitioner manual, this course provides specific activities for engaging service users, raising their awareness and supporting their personal development.
Promoting a compassionate approach to understanding people’s behaviour, the Dignifi® Programme provides resources for practitioners supporting people to undertake their own recovery journey. It offers a range of exercises, strategies and sessions that will help people to develop understanding of themselves and the world around them. It supports them to develop compassion for themselves and others, thereby reducing levels of stress, anxiety and aggression.
Aims
By the end of this three day course, you will:
Understand the multi-faceted trauma recovery journey.
Be able to deliver sessions that support trauma recovery.
Be able to assess and monitor need for trauma support.
Have the confidence to adapt sessions to each person.
Course: Positive Relationships - Recovery from Trauma in Relationships
This two-day course supports staff to develop relational practice, exploring issues around attachment, developmental trauma and early experiences of violence and/or abuse. The course has 8 modules that help practitioners to understand the issues that young people face whilst also offering a toolkit for practitioners that supports with recovery. This course is accompanied by a comprehensive e-manual. Read more about this course here
Aims
By the end of this two-day course you will:
Understand links between childhood exposure to domestic abuse and adult intimate violence.
Be better able to identify trauma symptoms that suggest childhood exposure to Domestic abuse.
Learn practical techniques for managing people’s disclosure safely.
Reduce YP’s risk of perpetrating and/or being victimised through domestic abuse.
Other Courses Dignifi Offer:
Racial Trauma, Cultural Sensitivity and Bias:
Exploring the impacts of racial trauma, intergenerational trauma, migration and displacement trauma. This course explores the many challenges people from minoritised backgrounds faces, offering practitioners a space to reflect on how they can offer the right support and understand their own bias.
Advanced Trauma Training:
A popular course with delegates, this course widens the lens to explore the multi-faceted impacts of developmental trauma and adult experiences of difference and discrimination.
Leaving Care Behind:
Understanding the issues for care leavers and care experienced people, supporting them to effectively become regulated, learn to self-parent, move on and develop meaningful lives.
Trauma, Offending and Exploitation:
A course exploring issues of exploitation, modern day slavery and county lines and the impacts to young people. This course, delivered by people with lived experience helps practitioners to see beyond the behaviour and find new ways to breakthrough to young people who are under the hold of organised crime groups.
Supporting People in Criminal Justice to Move On:
Supporting practitioners to Understand and the links between trauma and offending behaviour.