Open Access Workshops for Professionals.                              Trauma Awareness; A Family Perspective

The workshop facilitates professionals’ understanding on the experiences of families navigating health, social care and education systems and the layers of trauma they experience throughout this. It explores the factors that contribute to traumatic experiences and encourages professionals to reflect on how their service can prevent or mitigate any further trauma to families.

Informed by Lived Experiences  

The film resources in the workshop, where families talk directly about their traumatic experiences, were developed through co-production with family carers. From “this is what it feels like” to why it happens, the film connects individual experiences to systemic gaps. The facilitated discussions are strategically placed to reflect on individual actions that could prevent trauma from occurring.                                                                                                           

Main Aims: 

• Raise awareness of why the system is traumatising families.
• Identify the need for relational, humanised, and proactive support.
• Highlight the ways trauma can affect people.
• Identify how we all can be accountable for our actions, judgements, and assumptions.