This live online training is designed to support Sports Dietitians and anyone working in the Sports environment to understand what trauma is, how it can impacts athletes generally, as well as specifically regarding food, eating and body image.

Trauma is widespread in the general community, and whether it is named or unnamed, shows up in unexpected ways in sports spaces. Additionally and importantly, athletes experiences within the sport can be traumatising or perpetuate previous traumas.

Dietitians and health professionals have an important role in understanding trauma and how it inevitably shows up our shared spaces, including our own trauma experiences.

This course aims to expand your scope of practice, but we will not be introducing you to anything that is not safely within a Dietitians wheelhouse.

WORKSHOP CONTENT WILL INCLUDE:

• What is trauma and trauma-informed care?

• The role of the Dietitian/health professional, scope of practice

• PTSD, cPTSD (understanding diagnoses including overlapping features)

• Polyvagal theory and nervous system states, including an awareness of our own nervous system    

• Window of Tolerance as a helpful framework and teaching tool

• Case studies to offer illustrations of how trauma might show up

• How to recognise what’s happening in other people’s systems alongside their presenting food, eating and body-related symptoms      

• How to establish safety in the relationship and environment and times when “unsafe” might show up in sports spaces

• Some foundational practices we can use to enhance self and co-regulation

• What Trauma-informed Care looks like in organisations