CURRENT INSTITUTE PROGRAMS
Our training courses are customized to reflect your program’s strengths, needs and long-term goals for improving staff and client outcomes. Learning is available virtually – asynchronous and synchronous, based off organizational need – and in-person, as conditions allow. We are committing to meeting you and your team where they are and helping take you where you need to be.
Hanna Institute training courses are approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists for continuing education units for LMFT, LCSW, LPPC, and LEP. Current offerings include:
Trauma-Informed Care: Foundations (TIC101)
Length: Eight hours (Split into two 4-hour workshops, unless otherwise requested)
Delivery: Live in-person or live virtual
This course provides a comprehensive overview of foundational Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) principles and practices, which support a safe and brave workplace, ultimately improving outcomes for individuals and communities. In the course, we explore different types of trauma and the science behind how trauma impacts our brain, body and behavior. We highlight how many current practices of workplaces unintentionally re-traumatize individuals they are meant to help – especially those pushed to the margins of our society – and create vicarious trauma for the staff who work tirelessly to support them. Throughout, we provide ample time and space for discussions around how trauma-informed principles can be practiced in your workplace to reduce trauma and promote healing and recovery.
Advanced Trauma-Informed Care (TIC102): Trauma-Informed Systems, White Supremacy & Racial Trauma
Length: Eight hours (Split into two 4-hour workshops, unless otherwise requested)
Delivery: Live in-person or live virtual
Advanced Trauma Informed Care (TIC) provides deeper exploration of concepts introduced in TIC 101, building upon foundational knowledge of trauma science and key principles and practices of TIC. Despite our best efforts to support those with histories of trauma, the very services and systems designed to support survivors are often, themselves, trauma-inducing. This is especially true in our current political-economic social system based on White Supremacy: the historical and current accumulation of structural power that privileges, centralizes, and elevates white people as a group and perpetuates the experience of racial trauma (Robin Di Angelo, 2011). This course acknowledges a world where people are routinely wounded and includes tools and methods that can help build trauma-informed and, ultimately, trauma-responsive systems.
De-escalation and Conflict Resolution
Length: Four hours
Delivery: Live in-person or live virtual
This course describes everyday communication skills that can be utilized with anyone, anywhere for peaceful conflict resolution as well as detailing more concentrated efforts to help manage crises, increase safety, and limit the use of force when working with agitated and potentially aggressive individuals. Based on best practices established by psychological science, participants will learn how to assess situations, implement safety measures, apply de-escalation techniques, repair relationships, and debrief after incidents.
HeArts Integration: Healing from trauma through the Arts
Length: Four hours
Delivery: Live in-person
Integrating various art forms into our workplace and personal practices inspires trauma-informed social-emotional learning, co- and self-regulation, cultural humility, and resilience-building strategies. In this experiential workshop, participants will investigate the science behind arts integration and explore artistic activities that can be utilized both in and outside of their workplace to help individuals prevent and heal from adversities and trauma.