Saturday, October 25, 2025
Check-in and Doors Open 8:30 am | Training from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm (with an hour break for lunch on your own).
Childcare available during the training hours for ages 4+
Questions? Email us at events@lakewoodcis.org
Session Information
This training and discussion will offer practical tools to help us sustain, individually and collectively, in the face of trauma, secondary trauma and overwhelm. Whether this is related to our work, our personal lives, the pandemic, democracies dissolving, systematic oppression and structural supremacy surfacing in exceedingly painful ways, or the unfolding of the climate crisis, we will discuss what the consequences are as well as strategies for sustaining ourselves and each other.
This will be interactive so please come with questions or topics you’d like to cover.
About the Presenter
Laura van Dernoot Lipsky is the founder and director of The Trauma Stewardship Institute and author of Trauma Stewardship and The Age of Overwhelm. She is the host of the podcast Future Tripping, which is dedicated to conversations about overwhelm. Widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of trauma exposure, she has worked nationally and internationally for more than three decades. Much of her work is being invited to assist in the aftermath of community catastrophes – whether they are fatal storms or mass shootings. Simultaneously, she has long been active in community organizing and movements for social and environmental justice and has taught on issues surrounding systematic oppression, structural supremacy, and liberation theory. Laura is on the advisory board of ZGiRLS, an organization that supports young girls in sports. She is a founding member of the International Transformational Resilience Network, which supports the development of capacity to address climate change. Laura also served as an associate producer of the award-winning film A Lot Like You, and was given a Yo! Mama award in recognition of her work as a community-activist mother.
Continuing Education Credits
More information to come regarding Clock Hours!
CEs provided by Cascadia Training for per certificate, an approved provider for NBCC and NASW-WA. Therapists, Counselors, Social Workers, RNs, CDPs, Naturopaths, Translators, WA Court Interpreters. You must register for CEs separately from (and in addition to) registering to attend the workshop.
Tacoma Public School employees can earn free clock hours for this training. To register for TPS clock hours please log into your NeoEd, then you can use this link to register.
Session Resources
Download materials below.
Notices
Communities In Schools of Lakewood is an equal opportunity employer/program.
Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request for individuals with disabilities. Washington Relay Service – 711
This program is made possible by support and funding from a Pierce County Human Services Behavioral Health Division grant. For more detailed information visit workforce-central.org/funding