Applying the SPHERE Model to Support Trauma Recovery and Assist with Well-Being

Join us in Davis this June for a three-hour workshop taught by internationally renowned author and social work educator Nicki Weld! The Human Services pioneer and primary creator of the Three Houses tool will provide child welfare social workers with an overview of a therapeutic practice framework (Weld's SPHERE model) to support and enhance the well-being of adults who have experienced relational trauma.

After attending this training, participants will be able to:

• Apply the SPHERE model to explore and assess the impacts of relational trauma.

• Apply the SPHERE model to frame a therapeutic approach to supporting trauma recovery.

• Name ways to provide psycho-education around trauma.

• Identify ways to work with loss and grief.

• Identify ways to work with anxiety and anger.

• Describe how to support the development of a healthy self-relationship and interpersonal relationships.

About the Presenter

Nicki Weld, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland and the director of CNZN Ltd., New Zealand. Over the past 30 years, Weld, a native of Aotearoa (Maori New Zealand), has worked in a variety of human services and child protection roles, including as a professional leader for social work in general health, a senior social worker, a supervisor, a senior child protection trainer and a national social work advisor within the New Zealand government and non-government sectors. Weld is the author of several human services publications and the primary creator of the internationally applied Three Houses tool.