Nufound21 Trainings

This training emphasizes the importance of survivors not harming each other and how to recognize the signs. we aims to help participants identify healthy, supportive work environments and recognize signs of unhealthy ones. Through real-life examples, I’ll share insights on navigating workplace challenges, toxic leadership, and supporting those vulnerable to manipulation or exploitation.

The goal is to equip you with the tools to advocate for yourself, disrupt cycles of abuse, and create a strong network of survivors who actively engage in their own healing. We’ll also explore the critical question: What does safety look like when working with survivor leaders? Together, we’ll learn how to maintain a safe, trauma-informed approach to leadership and collaboration.

Key Takeaways from the Training:

-Advocacy: Learn how to effectively advocate for yourself and others in supportive environments.  

- Compensation: Understand your rights around fair pay and benefits.  

-Storytelling: Use storytelling as a tool for healing and advocacy while maintaining boundaries.  

-Understanding the Field: Gain insight into the social work field and how to navigate its complexities.  

- Organizational Structure: Identify and address toxic dynamics within organizational structures for a healthier workplace.

Empathetic mentorship creates a safe, supportive space for survivors of trauma, particularly sexual abuse, to heal and grow. As a mentor, your role is to foster trust, using trauma-informed principles to help mentees rebuild self-esteem, develop coping strategies, and regain control of their healing process.

Empathy in mentorship goes beyond guidance—it's about listening, validating experiences, and encouraging independence. This approach helps survivors build resilience, find strength in their struggles, and advocate for themselves. Through consistent, compassionate mentoring, you’ll help mentees build a strong support system, develop healthy coping mechanisms, and reclaim their voice in their recovery.

Key Takeaways

- Empathetic mentorship: builds a trauma-sensitive, trusting relationship.

- Empowering mentees: to advocate for themselves is key to healing and resilience.

- Mentors provide trauma-informed support while respecting the mentee’s pace in recovery.

- A trauma-informed youth approach is essential for validating and supporting healing.

This training, based on personal survivor experiences and advocacy, aims to equip participants with the tools to recognize healthy, supportive work environments and identify unsafe or toxic dynamics, both in leadership and between survivors.  And drive change within leadership while supporting individuals who are vulnerable.

Key objectives include:

-Identifying and fostering trauma-informed, empowering spaces.

-Recognizing the signs of unhealthy work environments.

-Setting ethical boundaries and ensuring survivor safety.

-Creating supportive networks for survivors hired. 

By the end, participants will be equipped to create safe, respectful, and healing environments for survivors, particularly in leadership roles.

Training Description for Providers and Students 

This training offers social work students and professionals an in-depth exploration of trauma, resilience, and healing, with an emphasis on cultivating empathy, self-reflection, and awareness of the social issues surrounding child welfare and abuse. By incorporating the *Fashioning Charel: documentary, which focuses on the personal and societal impacts of overcoming adversity, this training provides a powerful, real-world lens on resilience.

This training, informed by personal survivor experiences, helps participants recognize healthy work environments, identify toxic dynamics, and support vulnerable individuals. Participants will also analyze a case study to apply these concepts in a real-world context.

Key Takeaways:

- Establish ethical boundaries and create trauma-informed spaces.

- Support and empower vulnerable individuals, especially survivors.

- Apply knowledge through a case study exercise.

Producers Andy Takats & Charel Murrell

Director Andy Takats- for more information https://www.fashioningcharel.com

This training offers social work students and professionals an in-depth exploration of trauma, resilience, and healing, with an emphasis on cultivating empathy, self-reflection, and awareness of the social issues surrounding child welfare and abuse. By incorporating the *Fashioning Charel: documentary, which focuses on the personal and societal impacts of overcoming adversity, this training provides a powerful, real-world lens on resilience.

This training, informed by personal survivor experiences, helps participants recognize healthy work environments, identify toxic dynamics, and support vulnerable individuals. Participants will also analyze a case study to apply these concepts in a real-world context.

Key Takeaways:

- Establish ethical boundaries and create trauma-informed spaces.

- Support and empower vulnerable individuals, especially survivors.

- Apply knowledge through a case study exercise.

Producers Andy Takats & Charel Murrell

Director Andy Takats- for more information https://www.fashioningcharel.com