Our workshops inform professionals on some of the basic physical, mental, and social outcomes of trauma. They are topical and contextual to the issues we encounter with children and adults impacted by trauma.
These interactive workshops can be facilitated in person or online for your organization. Individuals can also participate in one of the upcoming workshops sponsored by PA OCYF or PA Care.
Select workshops are also available on-demand via our online learning platform – Lakeside Learning.
Research shows that 67% of the population has experienced at least one Adverse Childhood Experience. These trauma-based adversities are predictive of a multitude of toxic physical, mental and social outcomes throughout a person’s lifetime.
As a society and as individuals, we need to be better informed and prepared to prevent and address the traumatic impact of childhood adversities. In this multi-media, interactive workshop, professionals work together to build a powerful image that helps them appreciate the complex nature of trauma and its aftermath.
2 Hour Workshop
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First Responders can be better equipped to meet the needs of those in their community with information that helps them appreciate the complex nature of trauma. With respect for the primary responsibilities of first responders, this multi-media, interactive workshop sheds light on the potential deeper needs of the populations they serve.
A First Responder is a person with specialized training who is among the first to arrive and pro vide assistance at the scene of an emergency, such as an accident, natural disaster or terrorism. First Responders typically include law enforcement officers, paramedics, EMT’s and firefighters.
2 Hour Workshop
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Health Professionals can be better equipped to meet the needs of those they serve with information that helps them appreciate the complex nature of trauma. With respect for the primary responsibilities of Health Professionals, this multi-media, interactive workshop sheds light on the potential deeper needs of the populations they serve.
Health Professionals may provide health care treatment and advice based on formal training and experience. The field includes those who work as a medical doctor, physician assistant, pharmacist, medical assistant, nurse, physical therapist, occupational therapist, dentist, mid wife, psychologist or those who perform services in allied health professions. A Health Professional may also be an expert in public health or community health.
2 Hour Workshop
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Building on information provided in Trauma 101, professionals expand their understanding of trauma and are provided specific skills that enhance abilities to interact in emotionally and relationally healthy ways with people impacted by trauma.
As professionals become trauma-aware, they have a responsibility to prevent, avoid and respond to trauma. In this hands-on, interactive workshop professionals are provided opportunities to implement and practice the skills presented.
2 Hour Workshop
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The emotional and physical cost of being an engaged and empathetic caregiver can be an occupational hazard. Considering the potential impact of vicarious and secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, and burn-out, caregivers are provided with critical steps in identifying signs and symptoms of each.
Additionally, practical skills and a commitment to self-care are an integral part of this interactive workshop.
2 Hour Workshop
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Explore the complexities of grief, its many stages, information about how the brain processes grief and loss and healthy and less healthy messages to transmit to a grieving person. Learn how children and teens grieve differently than adults is also included.
Participants learn how grief and trauma intersect. There are opportunities to share thoughts, feelings, sensations and memories associated with grieving. Several video clips are shown that enhance and enrich our understanding of the needs of the grieving person and ways to effectively meet those needs.
Participants learn the basics of being an effective Grief Processor when supporting someone mourning a significant loss.
3 Hour Workshop
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Parents and Caregivers can play an important role in helping children recover from traumatic events. This workshop is designed to provided introductory information about the impact of trauma and the power of relationships to help children heal.
The more parents and caregivers understand how trauma effects children, the more they will understand the reasons for kids’ behaviors and emotions, and the more they will be able to help them cope.
2 Hour Workshop
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Creating safe and supportive environments for youth involves educating youth on why people behave the way they do. Incorporating basic information about the impact of trauma and identifying some basics of brain structure provide the foundation for youth to better understand themselves and those around them. A highly engaging and interactive strengths-based activity assists youth in identifying their present self and encourages them to set healthy emotional and relational goals for their future self.
2 Hour Workshop
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Enhancing cultural competence and encouraging cultural humility is essential to increasing access and improving the standard of care for traumatized children, families, and communities.
Cultural awareness, responsiveness, and understanding need to be infused at every level to be effective in addressing the needs of those who have experienced trauma.
With both presentation and group interaction, participants will identify forces that contribute to behaviors that build or decrease emotional health in individuals and systems.
4 Hour Workshop
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Recommended training: Trauma 107: Trauma-Informed Cultural Sensitivity
This workshop provides information the subject of racism with a focus on defining basic aspects and components of racism, historic racism and researcher bias:
Additionally, time will be spent integrating trauma principles to highlight the profound impact of racism while offering ideas with regard to the responsibilities of white and BIPOC to actively promote anti-racism and socially equality. There are opportunities for individual reflection and constructive conversations among participants to allow consideration of action steps to take as individuals, communities and a society to challenge and change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors around race.
4 Hour Workshop
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We cannot escape the fact that COVID-19 is real, has impacted millions of individuals and systems (schools, health care, political, organizations and businesses). The most distressing, lingering symptoms are neurological. Managing our thoughts, feelings and sensations has been challenging.
In times of fear, stress, uncertainty, and loss, we can benefit from exploring what has taken place, is going on, and may continue in the future. We can benefit from collectively knowing we have been experiencing something together and feeling less alone in facing these challenges. We can find ways to support and inspire each other, gain clearer perspectives, and share hope for what we can do.
This workshop explores our shared experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic through trauma lenses to bring meaning from the experiences associated with living through a pandemic. Participants appreciate the impact of a pandemic, both positive and negative, and are encouraged to expand their perspective and skills specifically related to the intersection of trauma in a pandemic.
3 Hour Workshop
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Lakeside’s workshop on the Impact of Social Media offers participants the opportunity to explore how social media has evolved over time, especially in the last twenty years. Participants are invited to consider both the positive and negative sides of social media, the potential for social media to be addictive, and the role parents and caregivers play in ensuring that children and teens are not emotionally or relationally harmed as a result of their social media activities.
Video clips featuring two prominent voices who have written best-selling books on the impact of social media promote enhanced appreciation for the power of social media to be harmful if not carefully monitored and controlled.
Participants have opportunities to engage in conversations with each other to inspire greater clarity in their roles as parents and caregivers as well as appreciation for how they need to be self-aware and self-protective when it comes to their own use of social media.
3 Hour Workshop
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Each generation learns from the previous one with survivors often sending unintentional messages to children of anxiety, shame, distrust and existing in survival mode. The effects of transgenerational trauma are psychological, familial, social, cultural, neurobiological and genetic.
This workshop will take a broad view of the impact of intergenerational trauma while acknowledging that there are still discoveries being made in the study and approaches to healing that may have profound implications for the future.
3 Hour Workshop
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Belonging is a fundamental human need, and it’s critical for everything from wellbeing to performance. Belonging is shown to be a key support for physical health. It helps us to manage stress and feel more resilient, which ultimately allows us to cope more effectively during challenging times.
Many studies show social connections can be protective. Statistics show that we are living in a time of increased connection and increased loneliness. This workshop will explore the positive benefits and practical skills of belonging.
3 Hour Workshop
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Active Listening is perhaps the single most important skill a person can employ. At the same time, it is a highly refined skill that is more than simply hearing what someone is saying. It involves understanding and appreciating someone’s experience, feelings, perspectives and interpretations.
Active Listening is an intentional way of communicating that involves many steps. One’s abilities as a There is always room for growth as a Listener. Join us to learn new skills or work to refine and better understand the skills you already employ.
2 Hour Workshop
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One of the most powerful effects of Active Listening is the emotional catharsis that occurs. Catharsis occurs without any reassurance or advice on the part of the Listener. This workshop will build on the content from Effective Communication (part 1) to further promote trust and connection in relationship by exploring the power of continuum language and the nuances, principles and cautions that accompany I-Messages.
2 Hour Workshop
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Professionals are often in the position of having to assess and find ways to meet the needs of others. By becoming clearer about the nature of needs and some ways to better understand, identify and classify needs, professionals can be more intentional about their responses. Affirmations are messages that empower people by validating their right to exist, feel, think, behave, grow and have their needs met. Professionals can be intentional in affirming others and in expanding their tool belt in the development of affirming statements.
2 Hour Workshop
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In order to understand any child it is necessary to consider the complexity and interrelated components that make up the child as a whole person, unique and unrepeatable. Professionals will benefit from exploring the broad cycles of development associated with ages, the child’s task at each developmental stage and how various aspects of uniqueness, such as temperament, environment and maturity influence behavior. Using LGI’s acronyms of PIES-RMS and ADUMS, professionals will be equipped with tools to explain to adults what is going on in the children they interact with. Note: This workshop will not explore neurodiversity. LGI is currently developing a separate workshop that will focus on neurodiversity as a component of the Whole Child.
2 Hour Workshop
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Because every human being enters the world as a member of a family and because each human being cannot exist, grow, learn or thrive without being part of a group that provides safety and an environment that adequately meets their basic needs, it is essential that professionals are aware, understand and respect the complex and powerful relational forces that are part of a family. This workshop will explore the information around families so grow their understanding, leading to greater respect and nurture of healthier families.
3 Hour Workshop
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The simulation experience will illustrate the journey and barriers that may contribute to feelings of helplessness and additional trauma for individuals and their families navigating education, criminal justice and social services systems. Participants will assume an assigned identity (adult or child) and perform tasks in four 10-15-minute sessions with each session representing a week of their life and responsibilities.
By the end of the first hour, participants will have simulated one month in the life of someone who lives with the realities of chronic adversity or traumatic experiences while navigating daily experiences and responsibilities, including various challenges and barriers. The objectives of the simulation are for participants to be:
The second hour is spent in small groups with moderated dialogue about the simulation experience. This methodology is a simple, effective, and flexible format for hosting group dialogue.
The process begins with the first of three 15-minute rounds of conversation for small groups. The groups consist of simulation participants as well as those who staffed the various stations. Each round is prefaced with a series of questions specially crafted to assist in processing the simulation experience just completed. A moderator supplies the questions and assists in keeping time and large group sharing between each round.
After each small group round, individuals are invited by the moderator to share insights or other results from their conversations with the rest of the large group.
Simulation Exercise (maximum 100 participants)