Reducing Vicarious Trauma Potential - The things they never taught you

Ways to Reduce Vicarious Trauma Potential

This is a workshop to reset your nervous system and lighten the emotional load of work for those working in any type of service which comes across trauma or overwhelming and hard to hear information about others. This may range from carers, emergency workers, social workers, therapists of any type, lawyers medical practitioners, vetinary front line workers and anyone exposed to other people trauma in a work capacity.

This workshop is designed to help professionals gently release emotional buildup, reconnect with themselves, and reset their nervous system — without the overwhelm of too much theory or clinical speak.

What you’ve got here isn’t just another training.

It’s a real-world, practical and proven approaches to vicarious trauma  potential reduction. These methods ha ve been used by military, by therapists and by those working in hard core social work front line jobs such as homelessness and domestic violence and sexual violence. These practical methods are not only proven but they are presented in ways that actually makes sense for frazzled stressed brains.

You won’t find dry PowerPoints or jargon-heavy handouts.

What you will find are practical, creative, movement-based and metaphorical ways to reduce stress and process the emotional residue that sticks around after  viewing or hearing traumatic or intense work in your job or after stress build up.

We get it: trauma doesn’t go well with information overload.

So we designed this workshop to be memorable, practical, and grounded in what helps — not just what sounds good in theory. We keep theory to a minimum and actual healing and processing to a practical application. In fact, we don’t even go into the definitions of vicarious trauma, burnout, or compassion fatigue — because honestly, you can Google that. Knowing the difference doesn’t stop the spiral. And it doesn’t heal what’s stuck in your system. You need the tools we teach for that.

We focus on physical and creative ways to:

• Reduce the stress load

• Process images and emotional residue

• Support your nervous system in real time

• Learn the ways to recover faster from challenges around vicarious trauma before it reaches blow out proportions.

This is not a PTSD recovery program — it’s designed for people who don’t yet have PTSD, but are starting to feel the cracks, weight, or exhaustion creep in. If you already have PTSD, check out our Trauma Management Workshop, which offers smaller group sizes and focuses on post-trauma recovery and care.

What You’ll Learn

• 🧠 How vicarious trauma can impact your body, emotions, and energy

• 💃 Rhythmic and movement practices for emotional reset using bilateral processing

• 🎭 Symbolic expression for the things words can’t hold

• 🤝 Co-regulation techniques to soothe, connect and settle

• 🎨 Creative strategies you can take back to your work and life

• 🏢 A conversation around workplace culture and the politics of change — because it’s not just personal, it’s systemic

What You’ll Need to Bring

• An open mind

• A quiet space (if attending online)

• Comfortable, non-restrictive clothing (no high heels)

• Glasses if you need them

You’ll Also Receive

• A digital workbook to guide you during and after and a link to the theory behind it if you need to know that or love learning by reading.

• A take-home pack with tools and prompts to keep practicing

• Ongoing access to follow-up resources

Good to Know

• 🧠 No musical or artistic skill required — this is about expression, not performance

• 🫶 Safe, neuro-affirming and non-clinical space

• ☕ Tea + snacks included for in-person sessions

• 📍 Brisbane + Online delivery (you’ll choose during booking)

  → Want it in your city? Join the waitlist — once we get the numbers, we’ll come to you anywhere in Australia

• ⏳ Two-day live group workshop or 16 hours of on line footage to work through at your own pace.

• 🧾 All materials provided — nothing extra to bring

Who This Is For

This workshop is open to any profession — whether you’re a:

• Lawyer

• Emergency services worker

• Support worker

• Therapist, nurse, case worker, carer

• Anyone in a frontline or caring role

The only prerequisite? You need to be able to regulate your own emotions and calm yourself when needed — as this isn’t a trauma-processing or crisis-intervention space.

Want to Book This for a Team or Workplace?

Yes, we do custom versions for organisations!

If you’d like to bring this workshop to your team, workplace, or organisation, reach out. We’ll tailor the content to suit the stressors, culture, and trauma exposure specific to your field.

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