Face-to-Face/Live Training
In Person Training & Workshops
Complex Care is a lead training provider in the areas of Trauma, Attachment, Therapeutic Care and responding to complex behaviours in children, young people and NDIS participants.
Complex Care has a reputation for taking complex, contemporary research in neuroscience, simplifying it and integrating it with practice wisdom, to give participants real insight into the experiences of their clients and to equip them with practical hands-on strategies that support their client’s recovery.
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Our Training Packages
Complex Trauma and Attachment in Children – Providing Therapeutic Care
(1 day workshop or 2 hours condensed)
Self-Care for Carers and Professionals
(2 hour workshop)
Supporting young people with controlling and aggressive behaviours
(2 hour workshop)
Understanding and Responding to Sexual Behaviours in Children
(2 hour workshop)
Supporting young people with substance misuse and the neuroscience of addiction
(2 hour workshop)
Complex Trauma and Attachment in Children – Providing Therapeutic Care
Self-Care for Carers and Professionals
Supporting young people with controlling and aggressive behaviours
Understanding and Responding to Sexual Behaviours in Children
Supporting young people with substance misuse and the neuroscience of addiction
Prices (exclusive of GST)
| Workshop | Group of 0 – 100 participants |
| 2 hr Workshop | $900.00 |
| 3 hr Workshop | $1300.00 |
| Full day 9-4pm (7 hour) Workshop | $2, 500.00 |
These costs are for facilitation only. An additional minimum cost of $60 per workshop will be charged for travel.
Workshop Overviews
Complex Trauma and Attachment in Children – Providing Therapeutic Care
This one day training has been designed to assist professionals and carers to develop a better understanding of how to support children whose lives have been affected by complex trauma and disrupted attachment.
This training aims to simplify contemporary research in trauma and attachment, and through integration with practice wisdom, provide real hands-on strategies for responding to behaviours and supporting children’s recovery.
Overview of Training
Morning - Understanding the Impact of Trauma & Attachment on Functioning- Defining Trauma
- Basic Brain Anatomy
- Human Response to Threat
- Neurobiology of Trauma
- Impact of Trauma on Long Term Functioning
- Defining Attachment
- Disorganised Attachment
- Development of Empathy and Capacity to Self-soothe
- Emotional Neglect
- Impact of Disrupted Attachment on Future Relationships
- Facilitating Attachment through Relationship Based Practices (Dan Hughes)
- Changing the Brain with the Neuro-sequential Model of Therapeutics (Bruce Perry)
- Improving Cognitive Skills and Reducing Explosive Episodes with the Collaborative Problem Solving Approach (Greene and Ablon)
- Responding to Escalated Children
- Sharing Strategies and Practice Wisdom
Self-Care for Carers and Professionals
This half day workshop explores the stressors inherent in caring for children with complex behaviours and support needs, and assists participants to identify their own triggers, risks and self-care needs.
Overview of workshop
- Front-line stressors and vicarious trauma
- Impact of stress on an individual’s functioning
- Impact of stress on an organisation/system (parallel processes)
- Identifying personal triggers
- Warning signs that stress is impacting on your functioning
- Personal self-care strategies
- Processing stress and improving reflective functioning
- Maintaining relationships and a supportive work culture
- Organisational/Systemic self-care strategies
Supporting young people with controlling and aggressive behaviours
Overview of Workshop
- Neuroscience of Stress and Trauma
- Critical cognitive and relational skills
- Distorted templates for others in maltreated children
- Reading and responding to Miscues
- Identifying and Avoiding Power struggles
- Strategies for creating safety, improving emotional regulation and building secure attachments
Understanding and Responding to Sexual Behaviours in Children
Overview of Workshop
- What is normal sexual behaviour in children
- Types of Problematic Sexual Behaviour
- Reasons behind problematic sexual behaviour
- Responding to Sexual Behaviours
- Working with shame
- Integrating needs of others
- Setting Healthy Boundaries
- Ensuring children continue to receive positive connections
- Strategies for increasing safety, reducing shame and building self-efficacy
Supporting young people with substance misuse and the neuroscience of addiction
Overview of Workshop
- How drugs work (neuropharmacology)
- Why do people start using drugs
- Why are drugs addictive
- Tolerance and Withdrawal Symptoms
- Strategies for supporting young people with addictions
- Strategies for regulating emotions/arousal states and building a sense of connection to others
"Trent’s presentation on the effects of trauma on children is the best professional development workshop that I have ever attended. Throughout the workshop, Trent combines findings from neuroscience and attachment research with his practical experiences of working with traumatised children and their carers and then gives practical strategies in how to interact with and respond to these children in the educational setting. In doing so, Trent enables participants to make a paradigm shift in their perceptions and attitudes towards these children and in how to support them. Feedback from staff has been overwhelmingly positive and many are now reflecting on their practice and operating from a trauma framework. This workshop is a must for any school."
"Trent is such a captivating speaker and his personal experiences of working with kids who have experienced trauma made it very real and powerful. So many students came to my mind and backed up with the brain science it really helped me to understand. I could have listened to him all day."