Sector Training Activities

Understanding the Consequences of Childhood Trauma

About Peter Bullimore

Peter Bullimore is one of the chairs of the Hearing Voices and Paranoia Network, Peter Bullimore, is testament to how effective these methods can be. Pete heard his first voice aged seven, after suffering sexual abuse at the hands of a child minder. But as the abuse went on the voices increased in number, eventually turning sinister and aggressive. By his mid-twenties Pete had lost his business, his family, his home, everything.

Pete spent more than a decade after that on heavy medication, but the voices never went away. He had to get out of the psychiatric system to recover. It was only when he came off the medication and met people who share his experience that he was able to stop being so afraid of the voices and actually start istening to them. He altered his relationship with his voices worked through the meaning of his paranoia.

Richmond Fellowship WA and Arafmi proudly present this unique training opportunity with Peter Bullimore.

Understanding the Consequences of Childhood Trauma

This workshop will enhance your skills in asking about, understanding and working with persisting fears so as to eliminate them.

This workshop is open to professionals, carers and people with lived experience or anyone with an interest in trauma and fear.

Topics will include:

• Working through the fear in trauma
• Why traumas persist from infancy: a new model of human emotional development
• Identifying how children are set up by abusers
• Using the trauma triad to challenge abusers who are no longer present
• Using ART to understand CSA
• Facilitating disclosure
• Solution focussed questions

Learning outcomes:
On completion of this course you will:

• Have an understanding of the role of trauma in mental health
• Gain awareness of infantism and the role of truth, trust and consent in neutralising it
• Be able to identify frozen terror, blockages, barriers and how to generate trust
• Be able to identify the consequences of trauma in persent experiences and how to work with them

This course would be suitable for:
Anyone interested in this topic including, but not limited to:

• Consumers
• Carers
• Interested family, friends and community members
• Students
• Service providers including
• Recovery and social workers
• Mental health professionals
• Alcohol and drug workers
• Justice workers
• Sexual health workers

For more information about this course, please visit our website at www.rfwa.org.au