top of page

IN-PERSON: OCT 8,9,10 - 2024

3 Day Training | Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

Starts Oct 8
1,300 US dollars
Mount Vernon Canyon Club, Golden, CO 80401

Available spots


Course Description

TIME: 8:30AM MT - 4:30PM MT TRAINERS: Henry Tobey, Ph.D. & Co-trainer TBA COST: Discounts or scholarships may be available to qualifying agencies and individuals, please contact Tami.Hinesh@VitalHearts.org for eligibility before registering! DAY ONE Unit 1: Introduction of Vicarious Traumatization Objective: To honor and bring awareness to the commonality of participants’ care-providing experiences; to foster an open and safe environment for participants to share their Secondary Traumatic Stresses. Unit 2: A Normalized Appreciation of Secondary Traumatic Stress Objective: To help participants normalize their personal stress reactions; to reduce the shame some care-providers feel about suffering these consequences of their work; to bring awareness to how trauma is also a body-centered experience. Unit 3: Attachment to the Outcome of the Work Objective: To help care-providers shift their work style away from an over-personalized involvement; to find less self-critical ways in which to perform this work. DAY TWO Unit 4: Acknowledgement of Multiple Motivations: Why do you do what you do? Objective: To recognize how unexamined multiple motivations and sought personal growth benefits make care-providers vulnerable to vicarious trauma reactions. Unit 5: Time Line Mapping of Careers Objective: To help care-providers understand their career history in order to invigorate their present work capacity; to appreciate what triggers their vicarious trauma reactions. Unit 6: Empathy vs. Compassion Objective: To appreciate the costly misuse of empathy and teach care-providers to learn instead to work from a place of compassion. DAY THREE Unit 7: Self-Care Plan Objective: To create a powerful self support tool for managing the stresses of caring for the traumatized. Unit 8: Personal Resiliency Within Healthcare Organizations Objective: To appreciate how your organization supports its professionals and, regardless of its limitations, to understand the need for personal resiliency. Unit 9: Tolerating My Great Worth Objective: To overcome barriers that keep providers from receiving the full measure of self esteem available from their work. Unit 10: Trauma Service as a Life Path Objective: To appreciate the special human implications of caring for the traumatized.


Course Dates


Cancellation Policy

Please ensure that you have approved work coverage for this three day training. A $100 fee will be charged to participants who register but do not attend the training. Any cancellation, regardless of scholarship status, within three business days of the training start date, will not be issued a refund.  You may elect to send an appropriate substitute. ​ ​If you cannot attend the Secondary Trauma Resiliency Training, your obligation is to find an appropriate substitute.


Contact Details

303-987-3000

contact@vitalhearts.org

930 South Butler Way, Lakewood, CO 80226, USA


Using a Touch Phone

Join Our Mailing List

Work life balance paper on keyboard

Training Overview

apply-for-a-scholarship

Apply for a Scholarship

bottom of page