Sand Hills Community
Wellness Center
Train the Presenter
Free Workshops Sponsored by the South Brunswick Health Department
Sand Hills Community Wellness Center is offering free workshops focused on mental health, wellness, and more. These sessions will provide valuable insights. Join us to gain knowledge, tools, and strategies to support your well-being and the health of our community!
Workshops
Enhancing Emotional Regulation
June 12th | 9:30am-12:30pm
This workshop is designed to provide an overview of emotional
regulation skills. Emotions are a part of everyday life, however sometimes
navigating “big feelings” can be very challenging and frustrating both for young
people and adults. Often difficulties managing “big feelings” can lead to
emotional volatility or withdrawal. Using the latest research, this workshop will
provide tools to identify and regulate emotions experienced daily as well as in
crisis situations. Participants will learn the basics of the SkillsSystemTM and how
regulate motions using basic skills. Participants will practice utilizing DBT skills
for emotional regulation.
The Impact of Social Media on Your Mental Health
June 16th 9:30am - 12:30pm
This interactive workshop is designed to look at the Impact of Social
Media on youth. The positive aspects of social media will be explored including
allowing youth to have a voice, helping marginalized youth find a place where
they feel they fit in, helping youth address social issues, and addressing
stereotypes. The course will cover healthy social media youth. Negative impact
of social media including depression, anxiety, cyberbullying, trafficking, and body
image concerns will be addressed. The impact of social media on the brain will
be explored.
Non Suicidal Self Injury
June 19th 9:30am - 12:30pm
This workshop is designed to provide an overview of non-suicidal self-injury.
Based on current research and science this workshop will detail definitions and types of
self-injury behaviors, describe contributing factors for self-injury, as well as provide
evidenced-based strategies on detecting, intervening, treatment, and prevention.
Participants will learn to support youth and young adults who engage in self-injury
through various preventative techniques.
Vicarious Trauma/ Secondary Trauma Stress
June 24th 9:30am - 12:30pm
Professionals in various roles often interact with individuals and families who have
been victimized and have experienced trauma. Frequently, they work in
communities that have been impacted by personal and natural disasters. Helping
professionals are commonly the first to hear an individual’s trauma story or respond
to a traumatic scene. Hearing about or witnessing a person’s trauma can often
cause secondary trauma stress, which can feel like experiencing the stress
firsthand. This course will provide an overview on vicarious trauma and secondary
trauma stress. It will help individuals identify signs and symptoms of vicarious
trauma and discuss the impact of trauma on daily responsibilities and life domains.
It will prepare individuals on how to manage their own emotions and use personal
strengths to manage potentially traumatic situations.
Compassion Fatigue
July 19th 9:30am - 12:30pm
Compassion fatigue is common for helping professionals who are working with
individuals who have experienced trauma. While it is important to have empathy, it is
also important to recognize the physical, emotional, and spiritual symptoms that can
contribute towards compassion fatigue. It is crucial to learn when too much empathy
can have a negative impact on your health. In this course, participants will learn about
the roots and history of compassion fatigue and identify common etiologies for
compassion fatigue and burn out. This course will help professionals understand the
role of perceived threat to the sympathetic nervous system. Helping professionals will
learn how to assess for compassion fatigue. In addition, cognitive behavioral tools and
self-regulation techniques for burnout prevention will be taught.
Trauma Informed Approach
July 24th 9:30am - 12:30pm
According to the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 51% of
the general population has had exposure to trauma. Many times, professionals may not
know how to approach or work with someone who has been traumatized. Trauma
Informed Approach is necessary in working with anyone who has experienced any form
of trauma. This course is designed to assist helping professionals with assessing
individuals for trauma and delivering services in a way to prevent further harm or
re-traumatization. This course will review current research on Trauma Informed
Approach and provide an overview of PTSD and Complex Trauma. Helping
professionals will learn how to utilize a strength-based approach as well as emphasize
physical, psychological, and emotional safety when working with individuals.