Events and workshops

In addition to individual support for trauma therapies, the Foundation also conducts workshops designed for you. As part of our activities, we organise workshops and events for professional groups, interested parties and those affected by trauma.
If you would like a workshop on the topic of trauma, regulation and resilience, please contact me so that we can discuss details.

Upcoming events

2024

Follow-up -Day workshop with the Kita Entdeckerland in Berlin-Karow on May 02, 2024

Thursday, May 02, 2024

  • How do educators recognise that a child is traumatised?
  • What does this mean for our work?
  • What methods do we use in trauma-sensitive work?
  • Where and how do we get help?


Speaker:
Corinna Kärnbach Dipl. Social Worker/Pedagogue Psychotherapist (HP)Mediator, Integrative Gestalt Therapy, SE (Somatic Experiencing) NARM (Neuroaffective Relational Model for the Healing of Developmental Trauma)

Day workshop with the Kita Sonnenblume in Berlin-Karow on 07.03.2024

Thursday, March 07, 2024
How can I tell that my students are traumatized? What are trauma sequelae?
"The trauma is in the body" - overview of the neurobiology of trauma
Self-protection and self-regulation
Exercises for dealing effectively with challenging situations (based on concrete case studies from your everyday work)
Possibilities for intervision/processing of experiences among colleagues

Speaker:
Corinna Kärnbach Dipl. Social Worker/Pedagogue Psychotherapist (HP)Mediator, Integrative Gestalt Therapy, SE (Somatic Experiencing) NARM (Neuroaffective Relational Model for the Healing of Developmental Trauma)

2023

Workshop for trainees in occupational therapy training

Monday, December 18, 2023
As part of the teaching content child & adolescent psychiatry and psychosocial treatment procedures, learners in occupational therapy education will receive a lecture on trauma & school. This will focus on self-experiences on the topics of body-oriented stress management, remediating classroom disruptions, releasing learning blocks & increasing concentration, in addition to the content focus of Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory.

Venue:
Wannsee Schools for Health Professions e.V.
Zum Heckeshorn 36
14109 Berlin

Speaker:
Mathias Thimm
The Polyvagal Practice
Helgolandstr. 1, 14199 Berlin (Schmargendorf)
Email: beratung(at)familie-in-berlin.de
Phone: 0179 1005332

Day workshop with the Kita Entdeckerland in Berlin-Karow on 23.11.2023

Thursday, November 23, 2023

How can I tell that my students are traumatized? What are trauma sequelae?
"The trauma is in the body" - overview of the neurobiology of trauma
Self-protection and self-regulation
Exercises for dealing effectively with challenging situations (based on concrete case studies from your everyday work)
Possibilities for intervision/processing of experiences among colleagues

Speaker:
Corinna Kärnbach Dipl. Social Worker/Pedagogue Psychotherapist (HP)Mediator, Integrative Gestalt Therapy, SE (Somatic Experiencing) NARM (Neuroaffective Relational Model for the Healing of Developmental Trauma)

Workshop 30.09.2023

Saturday, September 30, 2023

Together with social cooperation partners, the project "die Naturbegleiter" supports vulnerable people with free offers in urban nature in order to improve the well-being, health and resilience of the participants. Many of the addressees are, for example, people with refugee experiences and can therefore be burdened with traumatic experiences. The project's professionals, the nature guides, are given the opportunity to strengthen their knowledge in dealing with traumatised people. In the workshop, basic knowledge on the topic of dreams and fear will be imparted and ways of dealing sensitively and appropriately with traumatised people in the context of nature accompaniment will be developed.

The workshop will take place on 30. 9. 23 from 10.00 to 14.00.

Speaker:
Mathias Thimm
The Polyvagal Practice
Helgolandstr. 1, 14199 Berlin (Schmargendorf)
Email: beratung(at)familie-in-berlin.de
Phone: 0179/1005332

Trauma - School - Regulation

Traumas are widespread, they are nothing out of the ordinary and therefore also play a role in school.

Monday, April 24, 2023 from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m

This event takes place as part of the Berlin Foundation Week and is open and free of charge to all interested parties. Please register at: r.eichner@caritas-berlin.de

An example:
A child whose needs are not seen and taken seriously in the family, who constantly has to fight furiously for himself or who has resigned,
may constantly fight to be seen at school, or behave resignedly and passively - even if the teacher tries to see the child and take it seriously. The child's experience of life and his attitude towards it is more massive than the current experience with the teacher.

Trauma is an inappropriate response to a situation.
The response is inappropriate because, at its core, it is not a response to the here and now, but to the there and then.

And what can the teacher do at school?

First of all, it is important that the teacher understands the child's behavior as his acquired survival strategy, which he cannot simply discard.
And then the teacher can support the child with regulation exercises to increasingly perceive the school here and now as safe and to experience it as appreciative.

Speaker:
Mathias Thimm, trauma therapist

Fear - anger – despair

What can I do when great emotions arise in educational and social work?

Monday, March 27, 2023 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m

When the young people and parents we work with are scared, angry or in despair, we quickly reach the limits of our ability to help them with their life challenges. Because the big emotions often stand in the way of "reasonable" solutions. And at the same time we can't get past them.

This training aims to show why emotions are an essential part of life, when they become traumatic, how we can regulate them and how pedagogical and social processes can be designed in such a way that solutions can emerge together.

Target group:
The training is aimed at employees of youth welfare and youth social work.

Speaker:
Mathias Thimm, trauma therapist