3. Foundations
LBI delivered IMPACT workshops and coaching modules that accredits trainees to the IMPACT Foundations level.
Intent
This step provides accreditation to the IMPACT Foundations level. It equips and empowers caregivers, educators, supporting adults, practitioners and leaders with the shared language, knowledge, skills and methods to:
- Deliver trauma-informed, wellbeing-responsive support as a way of thinking and being.
- Understand client complexity and the underlying why of behaviour.
- Respond to client needs rather than react to surface behaviours.
- Intentionally grow client capacity in a personalised way.
- Provide intentional, moment-to-moment care and support.
- Apply side-by-side What-What-How® Growth Action Planning.
- Partner with clients, colleagues and others with shared intent.
Key Features
This step includes the following accredited IMPACT training and coaching modules (contextualised to school, agency, program or community), delivered over a 12-month implementation period:
- Co-designed implementation and positioning plan.
- 1-Day IMPACT Foundations (workshop contextualised to community – see below).
- 90-minute coaching module: Grounded.
- 90-minute coaching module: Respond to Need.
- 90-minute coaching module: Growth Action Planning.
- 3-hour online self-paced workshop: Trauma-Responsive Practice as a Way of Thinking and Being.
Basic member access to the online IMPACT resource library is included.
You and Your Community
For further information on how the IMPACT can meet the specific needs and context of your individual community, click the link below.
Detailed Offering
1-Day Foundations Workshops
The school, team, program or community completes one version of the following IMPACT Foundations workshops.
IMPACT Foundations: Introduction to IMPACT and Intentional Trauma-Responsive Practice
Develop the foundational awareness to support others in a trauma and wellbeing responsive manner, through the shared language, knowledge, skills and methods to:
- Activate the growth potential of your clients.
- Personalise care and support through intentional side-by-side (safe-base) relationships and coaching.
- Respond rather than react.
- Understand and modify the intent of your care.
- Uplift and keep ‘growth-focused’, even in times of stress.
- Apply the What-What-How® in your supportive role.
- Undertake trauma-responsive Growth Action Planning.
- Work in shared intent with your clients and the broader support/care community.
- Be wellbeing and trauma-responsive in your thinking and practice (including moment-to-moment support).
- Respond to the deeper ‘why’ of behaviour (including trauma, adverse life events, uncertainty).
- Manage client behaviour by (1) responding to their ‘under the surface’ trauma and growth needs and (2) growing their capacity for self-management.
- Apply and integrate your existing strengths and best-practice knowledge into common lens or framework.
IMPACT Foundations: Introduction to Intentional Trauma-Responsive Practice and Differentiated Strategies for Educators
Develop the foundational awareness to support students (and others) in a trauma and wellbeing responsive manner, through the shared language, knowledge, skills and methods to:
- Activate the growth potential of young people.
- Personalise your care and support through intentional side-by-side (safe-base) relationships.
- Respond rather than react.
- Understand and modify the intent of your care.
- Uplift and keep ‘growth-focused’, even in times of stress.
- Apply the What-What-How® for yourself and in your caregiving.
- Undertake trauma-responsive Growth Action Planning.
- Work in shared intent with children and the care community.
- Be therapeutic and trauma-responsive in your thinking and practice (including moment-to-moment care).
- Respond to the deeper ‘why’ of behaviour (including children’s attachment and trauma history).
- Manage children’s behaviour by (1) responding to their ‘under the surface’ trauma and growth needs and (2) growing their capacity for self-management.
- Apply and integrate your existing strengths and therapeutic knowledge into common lens or framework.
IMPACT Foundations: Introduction to Intentional Trauma-Responsive Practice for Foster Care
Develop the foundational awareness to support children and families in a trauma and wellbeing responsive manner, through the shared language, knowledge, skills and methods to:
- Activate the growth potential of young people.
- Personalise your care and support through intentional side-by-side (safe-base) relationships.
- Respond rather than react.
- Understand and modify the intent of your care.
- Uplift and keep ‘growth-focused’, even in times of stress.
- Apply the What-What-How® for yourself and in your caregiving.
- Undertake trauma-responsive Growth Action Planning.
- Work in shared intent with children and the care community.
- Be therapeutic and trauma-responsive in your thinking and practice (including moment-to-moment care).
- Respond to the deeper ‘why’ of behaviour (including children’s attachment and trauma history).
- Manage children’s behaviour by (1) responding to their ‘under the surface’ trauma and growth needs and (2) growing their capacity for self-management.
- Apply and integrate your existing strengths and therapeutic knowledge into common lens or framework.
IMPACT Foundations: Introduction to Intentional Trauma-Responsive Neuro-Affirming Practice
Develop the foundational awareness to support children, young people and adults a trauma responsive and neurodiversity affirming manner, through the shared language, knowledge, skills and methods to:
- Activate the growth potential of young people.
- Personalise your support and care through intentional side-by-side (safe-base) relationships and coaching.
- Respond rather than react.
- Uplift and keep ‘growth-focused’, even in times of stress.
- Apply the What-What-How® for yourself and across diverse roles (e.g., including emotional coaching).
- Undertake trauma-responsive and neuro-affirming Growth Action Planning.
- Work in shared intent with children, families and others.
- Be developmentally and trauma responsive in your care (including being the neuro-affirming safe-base adult).
- Respond to the deeper ‘why’ of children’s behaviour (including trauma, neurodiversity and change).
- Manage child behaviour by (1) responding to their ‘under the surface’ needs and (2) growing their capacity and self-determination for self-management.
- Apply and integrate your existing strengths and knowledge into common lens or framework.
IMPACT Foundations: Introduction to Intentional Trauma-Responsive Practice for Therapeutic Residential Care
Develop the foundational awareness to support children and young people in a trauma and wellbeing responsive manner, through the shared language, knowledge, skills and methods to:
- Activate the growth potential of young people.
- Personalise your care and support through intentional side-by-side (safe-base) relationships.
- Respond rather than react.
- Understand and modify the intent of your care.
- Uplift and keep ‘growth-focused’, even in times of stress.
- Apply the What-What-How® for yourself and in your caregiving.
- Undertake trauma-responsive Growth Action Planning.
- Work in shared intent with children and the care community.
- Be therapeutic and trauma-responsive in your thinking and practice (including moment-to-moment care).
- Respond to the deeper ‘why’ of behaviour (including children’s attachment and trauma history).
- Manage children’s behaviour by (1) responding to their ‘under the surface’ trauma and growth needs and (2) growing their capacity for self-management.
- Apply and integrate your existing strengths and therapeutic knowledge into common lens or framework.
IMPACT Foundations: Introduction to Intentional Trauma and Developmentally Responsive Practice for Early Learning Centres
Develop the foundational awareness to support children in a trauma and wellbeing responsive manner, through the shared language, knowledge, skills and methods to:
- Activate the growth potential of children.
- Personalise your teaching and care through intentional side-by-side (safe-base) relationships and coaching.
- Respond rather than react.
- Understand and modify the intent of your supportive role.
- Uplift and keep ‘growth-focused’, even in times of stress.
- Apply the What-What-How® for yourself and across diverse roles (e.g., emotional coaching conversations).
- Undertake trauma-responsive Growth Action Planning.
- Work in shared intent with children, families and others.
- Be developmentally and trauma responsive in your care and practice (including moment-to-moment support).
- Respond to the deeper ‘why’ of children’s behaviour (including trauma, neurodiversity and change).
- Manage child behaviour by (1) responding to their ‘under the surface’ needs and (2) growing their capacity and self-determination for self-management.
- Apply and integrate your existing strengths and knowledge into common lens or framework.
90-Minute Coaching Modules
The school, team, program or community completes all of the following IMPACT coaching modules.
Growth Action Planning: IMPACT Trauma-Responsive Coaching Module
- Grow an awareness of ‘what is a Growth Action Plan’ (or documented What-What-How®).
- Grow the awareness and skills to develop a basic Growth Action Plan for a child, young person or adult with side-by-side support and coaching.
Responding to Need: IMPACT Trauma-Responsive Coaching Module
- Grow an awareness of caregiving and supporting adult responses that are ‘responding’ versus ‘reacting’.
- Grow an awareness of ‘needs’ versus ‘behaviour’.
- Grow the mindset that “trauma-informed caregiving and support is ‘responding’ to need, and not reacting to behaviour”.
- Grow the skills to self-identify when one is ‘responding’ versus ‘reacting’.
- Grow an awareness of key strategies to ‘respond’ rather than ‘react’ to different child behaviours, as made practical through a What-What-How framework.
Grounded: IMPACT Trauma-Responsive Coaching Module
- Grow an awareness of the role and importance of being ‘grounded’ in caregiving or supporting adult roles.
- Grow the mindset that being grounded (or present, mindful, responding and not reacting) is a key strategy in its own right.
- Grow an awareness of ‘mirror neurons’ as a key reason for why being grounded is so important.
- Grow the skills to apply physical (e.g., breath) and cognitive (e.g., affirmation, thought) grounding strategies.
3-Hour Self-Paced Workshop
The school, team, program or community completes the following 3-hour online self-paced workshop.
Trauma-Responsive Practice: A Way of Thinking and Being
Develop the foundational awareness to understand the features and intent behind wellbeing and trauma responsive communities, and the seven IMPACT meta-cognitive competencies of trauma and wellbeing responsive practice (as a way of thinking and being).
1. Foundational knowledge
- Nature of experiences – activating vs suppressing.
- Brain functioning.
- Neuro-sequential brain development.
- Understanding trauma and impact.
- Safe base in action.
2. Mindful intent in action – and how to respond rather than react, remain mindful, being grounded in practice.
3. Under the surface thinking – understanding the why of behaviour.
4. Growth focused thinking – how to uplift a growth intent.
5. Building block thinking – trauma-responsive building blocks of growth intent.
6. Intentional planning – introduction to the What-What-How®.
7. Shared intent in action
Further Information
Please feel free to email us at info@lbi.org.au for further information.
We are happy to offer fixed costings based upon (1) online versus face-to-face, (2) size of group and (3) travel requirements.