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Informed Practice

A trauma-informed approach reflects key principles that can be applied across multiple settings.

Outside the Box provides training that supports professionals to apply these principles in their work.

Being trauma informed is to:

Realise the widespread impact of trauma and understand the potential pathways to recovery.
Recognise the signs and symptoms of trauma in individuals, families, staff, and others involved in the system.
Respond by fully integrating knowledge about trauma into policies, procedures, and practice.
Actively Resist Re-traumatisation.

Training & workshops:

Awareness & knowledge enhancing workshops.
Strength-based skills to promote safety, trust, collaboration & empowerment.
System change sprint workshops.
Supporting the helpers.

Resilience Informed Practice

Being resilience-informed is to:

Recognise individuals are part of a wider social environment and that support must be relevant to an individual’s cultural, social and economic context.
Place a person’s own experience at the centre of support, focusing on both the internal and external resources that sustain and promote growth.

Resilience and Regulation promote positive Recovery. These “R’s” are essential to practice. for promoting empowered individuals, families and communities.

Understanding these key components enables practitioners to work to be more attuned to individual needs and engage more effectively with them to connect them to the resources they need and strengthen helpful connections in their world.

Training & workshops:

Skills for helping people navigate their social and physical ecologies to nurture and maintain their resilience.
Skills for helping people negotiate what they may need for success
Skills for Promoting strong identities: Cultivating agency, meaning & aspiration
System change workshops for shaping contexts that build resilience for the helpers.

Healing Centred Engagement

As a compliment to trauma-informed interventions and services, healing centred engagement addresses community trauma. Healing centred engagement is community and politically grounded.

Explicitly political.
Culturally grounded viewing healing as the restoration of identity.
Asset driven focussing on self defined well-being.
Supportive of providers in their own healing.

Healing centred engagement Reframes the discussion around trauma. It considers the dynamcs of social power and empowerment.

Through this lens services and organisations may more meaningfully engage and collaborate with those in their community to promte healing.

This provides a foundation for organisational transformation and growth that is explicity connected to the personal and community experience.

Training & Workshops:

The intersectionality of adversity, resilience, power and identity.
Shared meaning-making through collaboration & co-production for system change.

Identity Focused Practice

Identity is a product of internal reflections of self that are shaped by significant others and the environment around us.

Identity-focused Practice incorporates the Adverse Childhood Experience research and weaves in trauma-informed, resilience-informed principles. Allowing practitioners to use what the research tells us about bio-social-emotional development to work from an evidence-based position in order to promote healthy identity formation through the life course.

Practice shaped through the lens of identity formation is culturally responsive and understands the influence of the practitioner.

Training & Workshops:

Identity Focussed documentation, planning and life story work.
The role of shame and moral distress in Social Work.
Partnering with young people to create their narrative.
Turning risk into opportunity with adolescents and young adults to manage risk.

Identity Focused Practice is the foundation for assessments, interventions and planning that:

Are research-informed.
Are behaviourally focused
Acknowledge and address the tensions between self, social and physical environments.
Are purposeful with every interaction and intervention related to the impact on the child.
Values the power and legacy of documentation to influence identity formation.

Consulting

Outside the Box provides consulting for organisations and services seeking to impliment and embed Trauma Informed, Resilience Informed principles and promote Healiing Centred Engagement.

Social work
Education
Social justice
Health

Identifying key organisational drivers and mechanisms to promote change. with a focus on maximising internal organisational resources to promote and guide change.

Fostering services
Residential services
Voluntary services

Workforce development trajectories.
Culture change projects.
Policy & procedure reviews.
Maximising user experience feedback.
Incorporating TI, RI, Healing Centred knolwedge into existing training.
TI Case study & practice reviews.