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

This three-hour workshop provides child welfare social workers with an overview of a therapeutic practice framework (presenter Nicki 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.

Biography

Dr Nicki Weld is a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland and Director of CNZN Ltd, New Zealand, which provides international and national training, facilitation, and professional supervision. Nicki has worked for in a variety of social service and child protection roles, including professional leader for social work in general health, senior social worker, supervisor, senior child protection trainer, and as a national social work advisor within the New Zealand government sector and non -government sector.

Nicki is the author of Applying the Therapeutic function of Professional Supervision – Attending to the emotional impacts of human service work (Routledge 2023, UK), Courage to face long loss (Austin Macauley, 2023), E Ko te Matakahi – Therapeutic Social Work (2017, Stand Children’s Services, NZ), The Whole Sphere – Supporting well-being, and recovery from relational trauma (2014 Dunmore Publishing NZ), A Practical Guide to Transformative Supervision for the Helping Professions- Amplifying Insight (Jessica Kingsley Publishing, London 2011); Making Sure Children get 'HELD': Ideas and Resources to Help Workers to Place Hope, Empathy, Love and Dignity at the Heart of Child Protection and Support (Russell House Publishing, London 2009) and co-author of The Three Houses Tool- A handbook for application (Japan 2015) and Walking in People's Worlds: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Social Work (Pearson Education, New Zealand 2008). She is the primary creator of the Three Houses tool used internationally.