Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th July from 9.30am AEST (Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart time)

Trauma is common within society at large and is particularly prevalent amongst vulnerable populations, First Nations peoples and people with Lived Experience of disability and/or mental health challenges.

Trauma Informed Community Building (TICB) practice is a strengths-based framework that supports an awareness of the impact of trauma, when working with communities. As community development practitioners and workers, we need an awareness of the impact of trauma and trauma informed practices, to ensure we do not harm the communities we work with.

During the session we will explore Trauma Informed Community Building principles and practices to support greater community participation and ownership to encourage location initiatives.

During this 2 day workshop you will learn:

What it means to be trauma informed
Conditions of Community Trauma
How to apply Trauma Informed Community Building practices and strategies to your work
Trauma Informed Community Building Outcomes
Common misunderstandings
Lessons Learned and outgoing challenges

Who is this for?

Community development practitioners, NDIS workers, academics, youth workers, disaster recovery, local government, school chaplains, community workers; anyone working in community

"Really great workshop. Facilitators were super knowledgeable and friendly. Highly recommend! Also great for team building especially during COVID times." City of St Albert, Canada

About your facilitators:

Through her down-to-earth style, Dee Brooks from Jeder Institute brings people together in dynamic ways to realise and engage the full potential of their networks and communities. Over 20 years, her work has inspired people at hundreds of events and workshops worldwide where she offers community engagement and development training and also provides professional co-design, facilitation and keynote addresses for conferences, forums and events.

Michelle Dunscombe is based on Taungurung land in rural Victoria, Australia and is an enthusiastic community development practitioner, facilitator and trainer. She is passionate about strengthening regional and rural communities particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, to discover possibilities, develop community leadership capacity, build community resilience and support community led projects.