Transforming Trauma & Overcoming Overwhelm with Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
Kol Chadash presents Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
20 Years of Trauma Stewardship: Transforming Trauma & Overcoming Overwhelm
Join Laura van Dernoot Lipsky for a special 2½-hour training exploring how we navigate overwhelm, trauma, grief, and loss. Drawing on two decades of Trauma Stewardship, Laura will share concrete, accessible, practical strategies to help us regain our footing, reconnect with what sustains us, and strengthen our capacity to care for ourselves and our communities.
Project Kol Chadash is thrilled to invite you to attend this special training, open to the community. Generous support by a family foundation makes a sliding scale registration fee possible. Everyone is welcome. If finances are a barrier, please connect with us here.
Register to join us in person in West Seattle OR online via zoom. Online participants will receive the zoom link after registering.
Continuing Education Credits (CEs), Continuing Legal Education Credits (CLEs) and Training Hours are available. See FAQ for details.
ASL and Spanish interpretation is available with advance registration. Please register by January 14th to request interpretation.
Co-sponsored by the Holocaust Center for Humanity
Registration closes January 26th at 5 PM.
Speaker
Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
Laura van Dernoot Lipsky is the founder and director of The Trauma Stewardship Institute and the author of Trauma Stewardship and The Age of Overwhelm. A pioneer in the field of trauma exposure, she coined the term trauma stewardship to describe a sustainable, justice-rooted approach to caring for ourselves while caring for others. For nearly 40 years, Laura has helped others navigate overwhelm, crisis, and trauma. Her early years in activism and direct service work led to a personal reckoning with the cumulative toll of witnessing suffering. That experience sparked a lifelong inquiry into how people and systems can remain engaged without losing themselves or causing harm. She has become a widely respected expert, voice, and guide at the forefront of the growing, global movement for trauma stewardship.
Presented by
Project Kol Chadash
Kol Chadash is Kol HaNeshamah’s local response to antisemitism, offering practical help, peer advocacy, and opportunities for healing and connection. We strengthen Jewish visibility, resilience, and collective wellbeing while building our capacity to act in solidarity with neighbors targeted by bias and violence.
About the Book
Trauma Stewardship, Revised and Updated: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
The trusted guide for surviving overwhelm and trauma in today’s world, now revised and updated. Trauma Stewardship is the seminal work on sustaining oneself while bearing witness over time to the hardship, overwhelm, suffering, and trauma of humans, other living beings, and the planet itself. Whether through personal caregiving, school and work, or efforts to make the world a better place, trauma exposure is ubiquitous, often experienced as burnout or compassion fatigue. This essential resource helps readers understand the toll on their nervous system, individually and collectively—including, though not limited to, exhaustion, numbness, cynicism, guilt, decision fatigue, or the sense that one can never do enough—and offers practical next steps. Drawing on four decades of frontline experience, this new edition blends the latest in neuroscience, field wisdom, emerging research, and diverse spiritual traditions to offer fresh guidance and steady companionship amid intensifying pressures. Inside: -Tools for recognizing the trauma exposure response in yourself and others -Concrete practices for staying present and whole -Proven strategies for continuing to engage in one’s community, work, and life -New Yorker cartoons, because humor is critical Trauma Stewardship offers an accessible and compassionate framework for remaining grounded, connected, and purposeful while continuing to show up—for the long haul.
Custoidar el trauma: Una guía cotidiana para cuidarnos mientras cuidamos de otros
La obra de referencia para sobrevivir el abatimiento y el trauma en el mundo de hoy, ahora revisada y actualizada. Custodiar el trauma es una obra fundamental sobre cómo sostenernos mientras somos testigos de las dificultades, la angustia, el sufrimiento y el trauma que experimentan los seres humanos, otros seres vivos y el planeta. Ya sea en tareas de cuidado, en nuestra actividad laboral o en los estudios, o en nuestros esfuerzos por hacer un mundo mejor, a todos nos afecta la exposición al trauma, que a menudo se vive como agotamiento o fatiga por compasión. Este recurso esencial ayuda a los lectores a tomar conciencia de los costos para su sistema nervioso, en el plano tanto individual como colectivo —agobio, insensibilización, cinismo, culpa, fatiga de decisión, sensación de que lo que hacemos nunca bastará, entre otros síntomas—, y ofrece ideas prácticas para revertirlos. Sobre la base de cuatro décadas de experiencia de primera línea, esta nueva edición combina los hallazgos más recientes del campo de la neurociencia, conocimientos del terreno, nuevas investigaciones y diversas tradiciones espirituales para brindar orientaciones novedosas y compañía constante en medio de las presiones que se intensifican. Dentro encontrarás: - herramientas para reconocer la respuesta a la exposición al trauma en ti y en quienes te rodean; - prácticas concretas para mantenerte presente y en integridad; - estrategias probadas para seguir participando activamente en tu comunidad, tu trabajo y tu vida; - y viñetas del New Yorker, porque el humor es vital. Custodiar el trauma ofrece un marco accesible y compasivo para seguir saliendo al mundo como queremos, durante el tiempo que sea y sin perder el eje, la conexión ni el rumbo.
FAQs
- What is a sliding scale? How do I choose a registration fee?
Generous support by a family foundation has made it possible for us to offer this training with a sliding scale registration fee. $54 covers the basic cost of producing the event. Sliding scale pricing means you choose how much to pay based on your financial circumstances--more if you are able, less if you are not. Everyone is welcome!
If you are able to pay the $54 suggested fee, please start there.
If you're able to contribute more, your generosity helps make lower-cost registration possible for others.
If a lower rate makes it possible for you to attend, please choose the amount you can contribute.
If the lowest end of the sliding scale is out of reach, please reach out here.
- How can I get Continuing Education credits (CEs) or credit for professional training hours?
Continuing Education Credits
2.5 Continuing Education Credits (CEs) are available for:
Therapists
Counselors
Social Workers
RNs
CPDs
Naturopaths
Translators
WA Court Interpreters
CEs may be purchased directly through our CE provider, Cascadia Training. Please click here to purchase CEs for this event.
Continuing Legal Education Credits
For CLE credits (2.25) for this event, please sign up here. Many thanks to ACLU for helping us offer CLEs.
- Is interpretation available?
ASL and Spanish interpretation will be available with advanced registration. Please register by January 14th to request interpretation in person or online.
- Will this event be recorded?
No. This training will be accessible in person and live online via zoom.
- I am no longer able to attend in person. Can I access the training online instead?
Yes. Please contact us to update your ticket type.
- I need to cancel my registration. What is your refund policy?
Use the "manage order" link in your confirmation email to cancel or change your registration.
90% of registration paid is refundable up to 2 weeks before the event. (The 10% is used to cover fees associated with the ticket platform.)
- Can I transfer my ticket to someone else?
Yes. Use the "manage order" link in your confirmation email to change the attendee name and email on your registration.
- How can I get a copy of the revised & updated Trauma Stewardship?
Order the 20th anniversary edition of Trauma Stewardship from your local independent bookstore, on the Trauma Stewardship Institute website, or anywhere books are sold.
Now available in English and Spanish!
Books will also be available at the in person training on January 28th.
Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity
