Responding to Acute Distress Debriefing Facilitator Training
The increase in acute distress that human service workers are exposed to demands that we have a group of debriefing facilitators ready to respond effectively and in a timely way.
This training seeks to create effective debriefing teams within agencies and communities to support the humans who do effective human service work. The current models of CISD (Critical Incident Stress Debriefing) are not informed by the most current neurobiological information about trauma and the way that it impacts workers at both the physiological, emotional, relational levels. Often, these are presented as single incident experiences that are disconnected from prevention, education, and follow up efforts.
This two-day training embeds the debriefing process in the same core principles that are taught to workers in our STAR-T Facet One resiliency training. This allows for an integration of experience and builds on prevention skills which allow the debriefing work to be done more effectively.
It is a prerequisite for this training to have attended a STAR-T Facet One training.
This training focuses on leading a debriefing process that is dynamic, embodied, and regulatory. It demonstrates how to track the trauma responses that each of the participants in the debriefing are experiencing and make accurate follow up referral. The training develops the four core skills that are necessary to lead debriefings and provides opportunities to practice the STAR-T 90 minute debriefing protocol.
Workers from many different professions and practice levels can be trained in the protocol and it is not necessary to be a licensed behavioral health clinician to effectively benefit from this training.
Skills learned in this training process:
How to identify the need for CSID and distinguish which forms of acute distress demand response. Define a timeline for response.
Understand that CISD is part of a larger trauma informed/engaged responsibility (response ability) for human service agencies. Understand that secondary trauma is more than a single incident acute event.
Reflect on how you seek to deliver this support to your community. Inter Agency vs. Inner Agency Response
Understand the changing nature of trauma theory and interpersonal neuro-biology that impacts how we view secondary trauma
Identify the level of willingness you have to create the risks of relational connection, body awareness, and movement work in this STAR-T protocol
Increasing the ability to recognize and practice body awareness as a way to reduce secondary trauma.
Teaching and modeling resiliency skills in conjunction with debriefings that are well suited to the unique aspects of secondary trauma intrusion to each employee.
Practice how to create dynamic group process that models effective attachment response and resonance.
Experiencing the real presence quality of each trainee and how to access this in leading a group process.
Learn how to provide responses to acute distress that are regulating and integrating.
Integrating narrative and embodied processing during a debriefing.
Accessing understandings about the evolution of human communication to use communication resources that access the traumatic states and provide opportunities for resiliency.
Inter-agency collaboration to create community-wide support for acute distress.
INNER AGENCY TRAINING MODEL
Two-day Training: $ 5000.00
This two day training is effective for between 12 and 20 participants. The agency identifies individuals interested in being debriefing team members. The training is an initial deep exposure to what is required for them to function in this role.
This is both a content-driven and process-oriented training which will assist trainees in developing the skills and the ongoing support necessary to provide CISD.
Development of an internal structure to respond to acute distress and generalized secondary trauma needs inside the agency will be explored.
Follow-up consultation groups are an additional cost and can be negotiated with the STAR-T facilitator.
Retreat costs such as space rental, food, and lodging can be arranged through the STAR-T team depending on the setting at an additional cost.
COMMUNITY (INTER AGENCY) TRAINING MODEL
Two-day Training: $ 5,000.00
This training will also be available in a two-day, multi-agency training format for trainees from specific communities who will come together from diverse agencies to experience the training process and be responsible to help create the integration plan for their community.