What does trauma look like?

Community workshop in South West Rocks with Shelle Cowan

Families and community service workers in Kempsey who attend will learn about:

• The complexity of transgenerational and intergenerational Aboriginal trauma
• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), ASD and how this links to trauma behaviours
• The effect DV has on children and how to support them
• Self-care and avoiding burnout or vicarious trauma.

The workshop will also feature a cultural experience with the South West Rocks Figtree Descendants Aboriginal Corporation.

Shelle Cowan is an Aboriginal Specialist Trauma Counsellor in private practice. She often sees parenting practices, behaviours, violence and substance abuse directly related to traumas past and continuing. This has a compounding effect on physical health, self-harming behaviours, suicide and incarceration rates as a vicious cycle that continues to spin.

Shelle will be presenting on trauma and what it can look like, including the complexity of transgenerational and intergenerational Aboriginal trauma, how FASD and linked to trauma behaviours, the effect DV has on children and self-care which includes avoiding burnout or vicarious trauma.

For further information about this event:

Service workers - please contact Tiv or Oonagh at: tivolidovers@bluesky.org.au / oonaghconnor@bluesky.org.au / (02) 6651 1788
Local families - please contact Regen Hintz at hintzr@missionaustralia.com.au / 0476 806 721