• Alice Springs, Northern Territory Australia
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2 Day Interactive Workshop

Trauma Informed Care and Practice
An Indigenous approach to developing worker skills.

A 2 day workshop which begins to unpack ‘Symptom as History’ providing tools to develop generational resilience in healing from trauma and systems transformation.

Developed by Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson AO and Dr Caroline Atkinson PhD and facilitated by Dr Caroline Atkinson , Tyson Carmody and Cherisse Buzzacott.

This workshop unpacks the topics that are most commonly requested by people working in the Human Services field and Indigenous families who are living with trauma behaviours. It is an experiential and interactive workshop. A safe space to talk about the issues, where sense can be made of the Number 1 question: ‘WHY IS THIS HAPPENING AND WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT IT?’

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Kings Narrative

Topics include – but are not limited to

  • Improving responses to trauma behaviours
  • Working with Aboriginal young people & communities
  • Trauma audits using genograms & loss history maps
  • Experiential and interactive activities
  • Cultural healing practices, what do they look like
  • De-escalation strategies
  • Exploring behaviour aslanguage
  • Story mapping, how history of place strengthens responses
  • Unpacking cultural safety, cultural sensitivity, cultural fitness, cultural security, cultural competency and what they all mean
  • How trauma is stored in the brain and the body
  • Strengthening integrative service responses in your community & developing communities of care and of practice
  • Effective yarning circles & action planning
  • Self care practices and debriefing
  • How to minimise & respond to vicarious trauma and burn-out -physical, psychological, mental ill-health and substance use
  • Defining and understanding violence
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Facilitators

Lead Facilitator

Tyson Mpetyane Carmody

Tyson Carmody is a trusted narrative therapist, community leader, proud Arrernte man, father, and the founder and managing director of Kings Narrative. His vision at Kings Narrative is to support Aboriginal men to be the authors of their own story and build a proud future for his sons to inherit. Anyone who has worked with Tyson knows the patience, generosity, and knowledge he brings to everything he does. His work now is firmly grounded in systems change, strong communities and nurturing black excellence. He is highly sought after as a speaker, facilitator, and mediator.

Tyson has held many lead positions throughout Mparntwe (Alice Springs) across youth and community development including roles as Coordinator – Reconnect Program at The Gap Youth and Community Centre, Head of Wellbeing – St Josephs’s Catholic Flexible Learning Centre, Director – Centralian Senior College Clontarf Academy, and Head of Health and Wellbeing – Children’s Ground Central Australia.

Lead Facilitator

Caroline Atkinson

Carlie (Caroline) Atkinson is a Bundjalung and Yiman women and an accredited Social Worker with a PhD (Charles Darwin University, 2009). Associate Professor Atkinson is an international leader in complex and intergenerational trauma and strengths-based healing approaches in Indigenous Australia. She has focused her career on the interplay between trauma and violence in Aboriginal peoples in Australia, has developed extensive community and practice-based experience through her collaborative co-designed resource development work, and developed Australia’s first adapted, culturally sensitive, reliable and valid Aboriginal trauma assessment measure.

She is the CEO of her family organisation, We Al-li, designing and coordinating delivery of Culturally Informed Trauma Integrated Healing Approaches (CITIHA) training and resource development for organisations and communities across Australia focusing on systems transformation and implementation.

Co-Facilitator

Cherisse Buzzacott

Cherisse Buzzacott is an Arrernte/Katetye/Arabunna woman from Mparntwe, (Alice Springs), a mother, and a registered midwife. She works directly with Central Australian families from with Ampe-kenhe Ahelhe or Children’s Ground (CG), coordinating health promotion and health support to First Nations people, working alongside Arrernte cultural leaders and Elders.

As a midwife and First Nations woman, she has witnessed second-rate healthcare, racism, and disconnect of many mainstream services, detrimental to the long-term health of families. Cherisse is passionate about supporting communities to self determine and influence change in their own health and provide advocacy to local Aboriginal women and people, and informing them on their rights to autonomy and choice. Cherisse coordinates services and specialists to support women and babies, and enact and influence meaningful systemic change through creation of MCH programs as well as coordinating SEWB, Nutrition, and cultural and environmental health programs. This is through her current professional position and numerous other roles, including member of Red Nose NSAG, Chair of Rhodanthe Lipsett Midwifery Scholarships and member of the Aust College of Midwives Advisory Committee. Cherisse is mum to three boys and a daughter Senna (living in memory), and lives on Arrernte country.