Trauma Masterclass (Dublin) - From Connections to Accompaniment

Celtic Connection

Dr Howard Bath (Australia) will facilitate this 'Master Class', which is open to anyone wishing to increase their 'Trauma Responsiveness'

TU Dublin, Blanchardstown Campus

From Connections to Accompaniment: Responding to the core needs of young people in care and beyond.Following the success the event in Autumn 2024, Dr Bath is returning to Ireland to deliver an updated version of his Connections to Accompaniment Master Class on responding to trauma in, Dublin on 2nd July.While many trauma treatment models are available for therapists, there are few research-grounded approaches for those who work with children in as they are living 'their daily lives'.This Master Class will explore the development of healthy 'Connections' (one of the Three Pillars of Transforming Care proposed in the book of the same title) and focus more closely on the need for ‘Accompaniment’, a form of connection which is an especially pressing need for survivors of developmental trauma.Based on the experiences of graduates from the care system as well as the formal and informal research, this workshop will explore: <ul><li>How our understanding of developmental trauma is evolving and what this means for our intervention and support priorities</li><li>Why we must privilege a relational approach to out of home care</li><li>What it means to connect in care settings and the core skills involved</li><li>Why our young people need both connections and accompaniment</li><li>The core components of accompaniment</li><li>Resilience and the need for accompaniment through life</li></ul>With insights from the field of interpersonal neuroscience, we will also explore how accompanying young people in foster and residential care, can and should have other enduring impacts. This includes the addressing of two other core trauma-related needs - the need to ‘feel safe’ with others and the need to develop healthy, adaptive self-regulation skills.This Masterclass will involve presentations, small group/table discussions and illustrative video material.This Master Class will give you a chance to engage with Dr Bath (in person) to find out more about the '3 Pillars of TraumaWise Care' and build on the fact that much of the healing from exposure to chronic stress and trauma takes place in non-clinical settings.This event is open to anyone working or living with kids who have had traumatic experiences, including:<ul><li>social workers,</li><li>social care workers,</li><li>parents / foster carers,</li><li>therapists,</li><li>educators &amp; EWO's,</li><li>members of AGS,</li><li>community staff, and</li><li>anyone in a position to help a child heal.</li></ul>Certificate of Attendance and Light 'brunch' will be provided.Dr Howard Bath has had a long career working with children and young people in the child welfare and youth justice systems. He has been a youth worker, house parent, program manager and agency director. Trained as a Clinical Psychologist, Howard has also provided direct clinical services for young people and their families as well as training and program support for agencies and schools. He has authored professional papers and reports on child protection, out of home care, family preservation and developmental trauma and is co-author (with John Seita) of the book: The Three Pillars of Transforming Care: Trauma and resilience in the ‘other 23 hours’, written for care workers, teachers, kinship carers and others who interact daily with children exposed to developmental trauma.From 2008 to 2015 Howard was the inaugural Children’s Commissioner in Australia’s NT with a mission to promote the wellbeing of vulnerable children in that jurisdiction. Through Allambi Care in NSW he now provides a range of consultancy and training services across Australia and internationally, focusing on the impacts of severe adversity, interventions that promote of healing and growth, and the integration of the trauma framework into current practice.

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