Healthcare Practitioners
Staff having the right training and support can make all the difference when it comes to supporting people who have experienced rape, sexual assault and/or sexual harassment.
We work in partnership with support services across the South West to support them to help their clients and service users who have experienced sexual harassment, abuse and violence.
We work in partnership with support services across the Southwest to support them to help their clients and service users who have experienced any form of sexual violence.
New training on offer: Intimacy After Assault Training
This 2-hour online training has been developed for Counsellors, Therapists, Sexual Violence Advocates and Support Workers who want to improve their practice and their competency in working with clients facing struggles with intimacy after sexual assault and abuse.
Our focus is on how we work with our clients, so they cultivate a sense of ownership, confidence. It will be focusing on how we as professionals can develop our practice to become at ease with talking about and exploring this difficult issue with clients and become more sensitive to our own avoidance and masking working with this delicate subject, and how we create room in our own practice to overcome these barriers.
We will focus on
- understanding our own journey to sexual expression
- exploring barriers to intimacy
- experiential exercises for tuning into our own barriers to this work
- practical exercises for client work
- trauma-informed best practice for working with the felt sense in the therapy room
- boundaries and self-care
We are happy to offer charity discounts on our training. Please contact our training team for more information at training@sarsas.org.uk
“As a freelance safeguarding and wellbeing consultant, I’ve worked with SARSAS for a few years after employing them to work alongside me at several large UK festivals.
During these events, SARSAS brought in their amazing team of specialist staff and volunteers to create a safe space for anyone who had experienced sexual assault or harassment, whether it happened during the festivals or before. The care and advice they provided made a huge difference to the people we supported when they needed it most.”
Dawn, Welfare and Safeguarding Consultant
*Workshops can be adapted to suit your time requirements, but generally, they are delivered in a half-day or full-day format for up to 20 delegates per session.
*We offer in-person sessions at our Bristol Office, or we can come to your venue- please note that travel time and mileage will be an additional cost for sessions outside our training rooms.
*We can also deliver via Zoom/Teams for up to 20 delegates- please note that all delegates must have access to their own computer.
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