2019 Training Events by Month
Please Note: Only Risking Connection (RC) Basic trainings are open to the public. All other events listed are available only to Risking Connection Agencies. Interested in the Risking Connection program? Click here for more information.
July
RC Train-the-Trainer
July 17-19, 2019
The RC Train-the-Trainer is the avenue by which organizations and systems can implement and sustain trauma-informed care via the RC training program. Organizations that have met the requirements for adopting RC as a training model can train selected staff to be RC Associate Trainers. These trainers train RC within their organization on an ongoing basis. This event is open only to RC Client Agencies.
August
RC Basic
August 28-30, 2019
The Risking Connection (RC) Basic training is an 18-hour foundational trauma training. It is a centerpiece of the Traumatic Stress Institute’s Whole Systems Change Model to Trauma-Informed Care that organizations and service systems can adopt to implement and sustain trauma-informed care. This training is open to all.
September
Distant RC Trainer Webinar - Mindfulness in the Workplace: Practices for Sustaining Trauma-Informed Care
September 17, 2019
Wondering about the mindfulness buzz? Wondering about the evidence-based benefits of mindfulness practice? New to mindfulness, already engaged in mindfulness or wanting to further integrate mindfulness practice in your workday? Interested in integrating mindfulness in your organization’s culture as a practice for sustaining trauma-informed care? Come ready to learn more about mindfulness, how mindfulness can help sustain trauma-informed care, for individual treaters and organizations. Learn, too, principles for practicing mindfulness in a trauma-informed way.
October
RC Day of Learning and Sharing: Healing Racial Trauma
October 1, 2019
Racial trauma is an inescapable by-product of persistent exposure to oppressive circumstances that emotionally, psychologically, and physically devastates one’s sense of self while simultaneously depleting one’s strategies for coping. It is a life altering and debilitating experience that affects countless numbers of people of color over multiple generations. Unfortunately, the failure to consider the interrelationship between racial oppression and trauma limits our ability to work effectively with People of Color. Even when work is trauma-informed, it rarely devotes adequate attention to racial oppression and the pervasive trauma associated with it.
RC Recertification
October 22, 2019
This training offers an intensive learning and practice experience aimed at helping RC Trainers teach the RC Basic Training with fidelity to the model. The training: provides updated information and materials related to teaching RC; reviews critical components of the RC Basic Training; expands and deepens learning about RC concepts; discusses implementation of trauma-informed care; and helps trainers reflect on and address their vicarious trauma and that of the staff with whom they work. This training is open only to RC Trainers and is required every two years.
November
RC Basic
November 6-8, 2019
The Risking Connection (RC) Basic training is an 18-hour foundational trauma training. It is a centerpiece of the Traumatic Stress Institute’s Whole Systems Change Model to Trauma-Informed Care that organizations and service systems can adopt to implement and sustain trauma-informed care. This training is open to all.
December
Distant RC Trainer Webinar - Using Modern Science of Brain and Body to Create High-Performing Organizations
December 10, 2019
Our growing awareness of the functioning of our brains and our bodies has created a new realization of the conditions necessary for people to grow and thrive. A sense of safety is the underlying condition necessary for learning, connecting and relaxing. Understanding how both our brains and our polyvagal nervous systems respond to signals of danger and safety can offer concrete steps to improve the functioning of staff and the organization as a whole. This webinar will discuss how what is being termed NEAR Science (Neuroscience, Epigenetics, Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resilience) can create optimal environments for staff excellence.
RC Consult Group - How to Stay RICH While Having Difficult Conversations
December 3, 2019
This RC Trainer Consult group will address the challenges of staying RICH when having difficult conversations during supervision or with colleagues in the workplace. Conflict can affect our ability to communicate. Effective communication is key to staying RICH and arriving at mutually agreeable solutions.
