Vicarious Trauma — Building Resilience & Vicarious Growth Training Session - Hobart

The Trauma-Informed Training Program is designed specifically for the Tasmanian housing and homelessness sector. This intensive, yearlong training package offers a cohesive, sequential learning experience grounded in an Action Learning framework. Rather than a one-off training, the 5-block targeted capacity-building training program embeds Trauma-Informed practice through ongoing learning, reflection, application, and peer exchange, recognising that meaningful practice change occurs over time.

Participants may enrol in individual blocks or complete the full program.

We are pleased to continue the trauma informed, capacity-building training schedule with Block 4 Vicarious Trauma — Building Resilience & Vicarious Growth sessions for the Housing and Homelessness Sector. These face-to-face sessions will be facilitated by Dr Carly Cameron, Director and Principal Psychologist at Bend Consulting.

About the Training

This full-day, face-to-face workshop is the Vicarious Trauma — Building Resilience & Vicarious Growth of the 2026 Trauma-Informed Training Series. Designed for frontline workers, team leaders, and managers across the housing and homelessness sector, the training provides a shared language and framework for Trauma-Informed practice.

Building on the foundational training and online modules, this full-day, in-person workshop explores the impact of vicarious trauma on individuals, teams, and organisational systems. Participants will deepen their understanding of how trauma exposure accumulates over time and identify both risk and protective factors at multiple levels. The session moves beyond harm prevention to also explore the concept of vicarious growth, highlighting opportunities for meaning, resilience, and professional sustainability.

Key areas of focus include:

• Recognising signs and impacts of vicarious trauma

• Strengthening individual and collective resilience

• Supporting healthy, connected, and reflective teams

• Organisational strategies that buffer against trauma exposure

The day integrates theory, reflection, and practical tools to support long-term workforce wellbeing.

Suitable For:

• Housing & homelessness professionals

• Front line staff

• Team Leaders

• Program Coordinators

• Program Managers

• Managers

About the trainer:

Dr Carly Cameron is the Director at Bend Consulting. Shelter Tas has previously worked with Carly to deliver training sessions that received extremely positive evaluations, where 100% of participants stated they would recommend the training to others.

She has worked for twenty-five years as a psychologist in Australia and the UK in community-based settings, secure psychiatric services, child protection, foster and kinship care and private practice, providing consultation to individuals and organisations on trauma-informed practice.

Carly has a passion for delivering high quality evidence-based training and workshops, and has extensive experience working in, and managing teams that work with people from backgrounds of complex trauma.  Her research was in the area of Attachment and Psychopathology, with a specific interest in exploring the link between childhood adversity and the development of psychiatric disorders.

Location:

South (Hobart).

This workshop will also be held in the North (Launceston) on Friday 16th October 2026.

Online Follow-Up Session: Vicarious Trauma – Building Resilience & Vicarious Growth

Available only to participants that attended the Resilience & Vicarious Growth face to face sessions.

Participants will be invited to attend a complimentary facilitated online 60-minute follow-up session to reflect on their learning from the full-day workshop and share their experiences of implementing strategies and approaches in their day-to-day practice.

The session provides space for:

• Sharing what has been effective in strengthening resilience

• Troubleshooting barriers and challenges

• Coaching-style support to identify practical next steps

17 November 2026 | 10:00am – 11:00am

Participants will be invited via a Zoom link after the face to face sessions.

Eligibility and Available Places

Places are subsidised and exclusively available for employees of eligible Shelter Tas member organisations, Specialist Homelessness Services and Community Housing Providers. Total numbers at each session will be strictly capped in order to ensure quality of training.

More information:

If you have any further questions, please email Trish at training@sheltertas.org.au