Education
IPL offers tailored education for health professionals to build skills, acquire practical knowledge around trauma-sensitive practice and to co-create community-driven Indigenous cultural safety and education with patients.
Nawh Whu’nus’en: We See in Two Worlds - Trauma-Sensitive Practice Curriculum
Trauma-sensitive practices are an important part of culturally safe and respectful health services for Indigenous patients, as colonization has brought about a legacy of intergenerational trauma which impacts people’s present-day realities. Everyone who provides health care for Indigenous patients must understand the impacts of trauma and the options for building relationships with people who live with individual and intergenerational trauma.
IPL offers education for health professionals in rural BC to build skills and acquire practical knowledge around trauma-sensitive practice. Our longitudinal trauma and resilience-informed curriculum for rural health professionals weaves together Indigenous ways of knowing with Western trauma theory and neuroscience. It is delivered in three progressive levels:
- Level 1: Online introductory session (3 hours)
- definitions of trauma and importance of trauma-sensitive practice
- foundational concepts in land-based healing and neuro decolonization
- implications of polyvagal theory and co-regulation
- Level 2: Online in-depth series (three successive 2.5-hour sessions)
- dive deeper into trauma, trauma-sensitive care and somatic practice
- practice of self-regulation
- case studies
- demonstrations of working with various survival physiology responses
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- embody and employ trauma-sensitive practices for offering health care rooted in cultural understanding and safety for Indigenous Peoples
- strengthen our understanding of ancestral land-based healing modalities that have supported trauma release for millennia
- identify polyvagal theory and its implications for supporting trauma recovery with Indigenous patients
- deepen empathy and co-regulatory skills as a way of dismantling racism in the health care system and contributing to collective healing.
Register for Nawh whu’nus’en - We see in two worlds workshops:
Level 1
Level 2*
Feb 4, Feb 11, Feb 18, 2025 (3 x Tue) 1800-2030 Pacific Time | Virtual workshop series | Free | 6.75 Mainpro+/MOC Section 1 credits
* Completion of Level 1 is a prerequisite for enrolling in Level 2 of this curriculum
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