Description
Gerald Kiesman, owner/facilitator has developed a Trauma Support Training Manual for Indigenous, First Nations, Inuit and Metis community workers, managers, and caregivers. Gerald
Kiesman has spent 17 years providing trauma training to many community workers, caregivers and
managers throughout Canada. He has developed trauma training material that is essential to community workers who work with trauma survivors.
The Trauma Support Training Manual is a resource for community workers, caregivers, managers, to build the necessary skills to better support and work with community members who are trauma victims/survivors.
The Trauma Support Training Manual Provides the following information:
- Provides a clear understanding of how trauma is
created in the mind (brain structure) and body (muscles and organs). - Understanding how childhood trauma impacts the development of the brain structure, health, independence, developmental factors and behavior.
- An Understanding of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
- Learn how to provide a client personal/clinical assessment.
- Includes healing exercises and a self-regulation exercise.
- Understanding of the impact of colonization and how it has impacted the brain structure, parenting, self-identity, independence and well-being.
- Understanding of vicarious, secondary, complex and collective trauma
- Understanding of Adverse Childhood Experiences and how it impacts the brain structure and developmental factors.
- Provides a Trauma Communication Model that can be used in working with trauma survivors, to witness and guide a client to release the traumatic stress/emotion from the body. And provide the participants with a theory of imprints of trauma that they can use to educate trauma survivors. And a self regulation exercise “Trauma Stress Release Exercise that can be used to teach trauma victims and survivors how to release the traumatic stress and emotion from the body in a safe way.
