Draft Agenda for Historical Trauma Training

Day One
Introduction & Overview & Greeting Circle/Prayer
• Development of & need for historical trauma theory/interventions
• The historical trauma response features
• Historical trauma intervention & research
• Culturally competent practice
Ground Rules Woope Sakowin (7 Laws of the Lakota) – Revise to fit Sitka

The Development of Historical Trauma Theory and Interventions
• Need for HT Theory & Limitations of PTSD
• Limitations of PTSD & Complex Trauma

Definitions: Historical Trauma, Unresolved Grief, & Historical Trauma Response

Overview: Historical Trauma Intervention - Four Major Intervention Components
• Confronting historical trauma and embracing our history
• Understanding the trauma
• Releasing our pain
• Transcending the trauma

Confrontation with the Past
• Genocide – Videos: Angoon; Wiping the Tears Part I
• Genocide & Survival
• Processing – small group & large group

Confrontation with the Past Continued
• Boarding School Era & Boarding School Trauma
• Video on Carlisle Indian School

Lunch

Understanding the Trauma

• Impact of Genocide on Traumatic Grief
• Historical Trauma Response Features
• Trauma’s Impact Upon Health

Transcending the Trauma

• Positive Outcomes of Historical Trauma Intervention - Research
• Video: Example; Celebration of Survival

Transition from Day One


Day Two

Greeting Circle/Prayer Check-in

Review of Revised Ground Rules based upon the Woope Sakowin

More Recent Trauma Overview:
• Allotment & Assimilation Review
• Indian Reorganization Act
• Termination & Relocation
• Urban Native Communities & Relocation
• Example of the American Indian Movement: The Spirit of Crazy Horse
• Note connection to and emergence from history, policies, and genocide
• Intratribal conflicts a result of internalized oppression and historical factions

Stereotyping

Historical Trauma: Clinical Assessment/Intervention & Culturally Competent Practice
• Direct Practice Issues: Cultural Competence
• HT, Assessment, & Beginning Phase
• Special Issues for Natives in Assessment & Intervention
• Culturally Sensitive Diagnosis: the DSM IV Cultural Formulation
• Case Examples
• Middle Phase
• Therapeutic Alliance & Working Through
• Termination

Secondary Trauma

Lunch

Community Interventions
• Example: Tatanka Iyotake na Sitanka Wokisuye: Sitting Bull & Bigfoot Memorial Ride
• Community Readiness
• Video: Carved from the Heart
Conclusion • Resilience in the face of trauma –Videoclip: Where the Spirit Lives (optional) • Exercise: Wiping the Tears

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