The workshop offers foundational knowledge on trauma and trauma-informed practice for service providers. Topics include the Integrative Trauma Framework; neurophysiology and embodiment of trauma at multiple levels; interruptions of fundamentals: safety, agency, dignity, and belonging; and, pathways to healing.
Learning Objectives
- Explore and define trauma using the Integrative Trauma & Healing Framework.
- Learn about embodiment and fundamentals: safety, agency, dignity, and belonging.
- Learn pathways to healing and strategies for rebuilding fundamental needs.
Facilitator Bios
Leslie Briner
For over 20 years, Leslie has served families experiencing homelessness, youth with developmental disabilities, youth in the foster care system and, since 2005, has worked with commercially sexually exploited (CSE) youth. She has designed, implemented and directed services for sexually exploited and trafficked youth and developed comprehensive training on the topics of sexual exploitation and trafficking. To date, she has trained over 7000 people as well as providing substantial technical assistance and consultation on these issues in Washington State and across the country. Leslie works as a consultant with YouthCare and operates Social Strategies, a training and consulting practice based in Seattle, Washington as well as being Associate Faculty at the University of Washington, School of Social Work where she earned her Master’s in Social Work (MSW).
Teddy McGlynn-Wright
Teddy currently directs the Trauma Informed Schools Train the Trainer project in New Orleans. He is also a Belonging-Based Facilitator, politicized healer and award-winning professor, formerly of the UW School of Social Work. Recognizing that all interpersonal violence happens in the context of structural violence, Teddy takes a body-based approach to healing and clearing secondary trauma in individuals and collectives, whether the trauma is racialized or gendered, interpersonal or institutional. Teddy supports those on the frontlines of anti-violence movements including domestic violence and sexual assault advocates, anti-racist organizers, and prison abolitionists.
This training will be recorded.
CEUs available.
For questions about registration or this training, contact Nykki Canete nykki@endgv.org