About the Course
Walking in Two Worlds: Understanding and Managing Vicarious Trauma is a workshop that has been co-designed with Aboriginal community-controlled organisations to recognise the unique experiences of First Nations workers who carry the cultural load and walk in two worlds—supporting community while navigating mainstream service systems. It provides a culturally safe space to explore the impact of working with trauma, and ways to strengthen personal, team, and organisational wellbeing.
Participants will learn how ongoing exposure to others’ trauma can affect workers, families, and communities, and how to respond in ways that promote resilience, balance, and growth.
This workshop will:
Explore vicarious trauma—its signs, impacts, and how it shows up in community and workplace contexts.
Offer a framework for responding at individual, team, and organisational levels through a post-traumatic growth lens.
Support reflection on the cultural, emotional, and relational load carried by Aboriginal staff.
Introduce mindfulness, cultural grounding, and reflective practice as tools for healing and renewal.
Strengthen wellbeing and support structures for workers, teams, and communities.
Who should attend: Frontline workers, managers, and leaders—both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal—who work in community, health, or human services and want to understand and address the effects of vicarious trauma in culturally safe, practical ways.
Your Instructor
Sandy Rawson
Sandy Rawson is a highly experienced Clinical Psychologist, Director, and trainer who has spent more than 20 years working alongside children, young people, families, and communities across regional and remote NSW. Her training is shaped by deep clinical experience and a genuine commitment to building the confidence, insight, and practical skills of workers, caseworkers, practitioners, and professionals across the human services sector. Sandy brings extensive expertise in trauma, family violence, child safety, behaviour support, and healing through connection, and is known for delivering training that is engaging, reflective, evidence-based, and highly relevant to the realities of frontline work.
Bring this training to your workplace
Rawson Psychologists and Consultants will travel to deliver in house Core Training aimed at practitioners working with children in family violence including Psychology, Social Work, Case Work, Support Work, Education, Early Childhood, Health, Legal, Corrections and Juvenile Justice. Get in touch to discuss today.
