About the Course
This workshop has been developed through co-design with Aboriginal community-controlled organisations to honour the lived experience of workers who bring their own stories of trauma, healing, and resilience into their professional practice. It recognises that many in the workforce are “wounded healers”—those who walk alongside others in pain while carrying their own histories of hurt, strength, and recovery.
Through a blend of experiential and evidence-based therapeutic approaches, this training supports participants to safely explore how personal experience can inform and strengthen their practice. The focus is on transforming trauma into wisdom, developing wellbeing plans that protect against burnout, and embedding reflective, culturally safe practices at individual, team, and organisational levels.
Participants will:
Explore the concept of the “wounded healer” and the role of self-awareness in healing work.
Integrate personal experience with evidence-based therapeutic approaches in a culturally safe framework.
Develop individual, team, and organisational safety and wellbeing plans to sustain long-term practice.
Recognise and challenge systems and dynamics that contribute to silencing or marginalising trauma.
Learn to use lived experience as a resource for connection, empathy, and authentic engagement.
Foster a culture of collective care, reflection, and growth within the workplace.
Who should attend:Professionals and community workers across all sectors who have experienced trauma—personally or vicariously—and who wish to deepen their reflective practice, strengthen resilience, and use lived experience meaningfully and safely in their work.
Your Instructor
Sandy Rawson
Sandy Rawson is a highly experienced Clinical Psychologist, Director, and trainer who has spent more than 20 years working alongside children, young people, families, and communities across regional and remote NSW. Her training is shaped by deep clinical experience and a genuine commitment to building the confidence, insight, and practical skills of workers, caseworkers, practitioners, and professionals across the human services sector. Sandy brings extensive expertise in trauma, family violence, child safety, behaviour support, and healing through connection, and is known for delivering training that is engaging, reflective, evidence-based, and highly relevant to the realities of frontline work.
Bring this training to your workplace
Rawson Psychologists and Consultants will travel to deliver in house Core Training aimed at practitioners working with children in family violence including Psychology, Social Work, Case Work, Support Work, Education, Early Childhood, Health, Legal, Corrections and Juvenile Justice. Get in touch to discuss today.