Self Care to Collective Care in Challenging Times – August 5

Strategies for Personal & Collective Care During Challenging Times
This free webinar explores a variety of approaches and meaningful ways that we can engage in self and collective care. We will reflect on strategies to sustain ourselves in the work, to deepen our understanding of trauma-informed practice, and to care for ourselves, our teams and our communities.
As we find ourselves witnessing and living in increasingly complex and diffcult times, it is crucial that we learnways to care for ourselves so that we can care for those around us. This workshop explores vicarious trauma and trauma-informed practices through a social justice lens as well as techiques such as grounding and orienting, self-soothing, setting boundaries, finding our window of tolerance, making space for rest, and more.
This session will feature a comprehensive presentation, followed by a live Q&A.
Speaker
Consultant
Karine is a passionate practitioner, consultant, and educator with over 25 years of experience in the social work field. Her work is informed by an understanding of how trauma and oppression impact out bodies and communities. Karine has extensive training in trauma-informed therapeutic approaches, clinical supervision, and leadership. She is also adept at helping frontline workers and other practioners deepend their skills and align their work with their values.
Karine has worked in a wide variety of settings and roles, including director of counselling for a work instructor at Tornoto Metropolitan University and George Brown College. Her approach is guided by social justice, anti-colonial, queen/trans affirming, and strengths-based lens. As a trainer, Karine takes a trauma-informd approach to create brave, reflective learning spaces. She interweaves practical examples, humour, and an ethic of care into all her training, and beleives in a world where everyone should be able to live with dignity, safety, and belonging.

