Understanding Developmental Trauma and Attachment in Community Practice

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This foundational workshop equips community-based professionals with a deep understanding of how trauma and attachment experiences shape children’s development, behaviour, and relationships. Participants will learn to recognise trauma responses, respond with relational safety, and apply practical strategies that foster regulation, connection, and healing in everyday interactions.

What Participants Will Gain:

  • Insight into how trauma and disrupted attachment influence behaviour, relationships, and emotional regulation

  • The ability to identify trauma responses and relational needs in children

  • Strategies to strengthen co-regulation and support felt safety

  • Practical approaches to applying relationship-focused interventions in everyday practice

  • Skills to promote healing and resilience through consistent, supportive interactions

This foundational workshop equips community-based professionals with a deep understanding of how trauma and attachment experiences shape children’s development, behaviour, and relationships. Participants will learn to recognise trauma responses, respond with relational safety, and apply practical strategies that foster regulation, connection, and healing in everyday interactions.

What Participants Will Gain:

  • Insight into how trauma and disrupted attachment influence behaviour, relationships, and emotional regulation

  • The ability to identify trauma responses and relational needs in children

  • Strategies to strengthen co-regulation and support felt safety

  • Practical approaches to applying relationship-focused interventions in everyday practice

  • Skills to promote healing and resilience through consistent, supportive interactions

Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to:

✔ Explain how trauma affects brain development, behaviour, and emotional regulation
✔ Recognise attachment patterns, relational needs, and cues for dysregulation in children and young people
✔ Identify trauma responses in community and service contexts
✔ Apply practical, relationship-focused strategies that promote regulation, safety, and connection
✔ Respond to children’s behaviour through a developmental and relational lens

Who Should Attend

Community service providers and case workers, youth workers, family support practitioners, early childhood professionals, health staff, and multidisciplinary teams.

Delivery Format

In-person professional workshop designed for teams

In person | Live online