Racial Resilience, Refugee Trauma, Racism and Dehumanisation
Promoting Racial Resilience and Recovery: Addressing Dehumanisation, Racism, and Refugee Trauma in Children, Young People, and Families
Racism casts a long shadow, profoundly impacting the lives of children and young people, especially those with complex trauma and refugee experiences.
It disrupts their mental and emotional well-being, hinders academic success, distorts identity formation, and damages interpersonal relationships. The effects can manifest as social isolation, health disparities, long-term trauma, and diminished future opportunities. In Australia, these challenges are compounded by systemic and interpersonal racism.
This workshop provides practical tools and strategies to combat the effects of racism and foster racial resilience in children and young people with refugee backgrounds. We’ll move beyond awareness to actionable steps, equipping you to become an effective ally and promote healing.
Why This Workshop Matters
In today’s climate, understanding and fostering racial resilience is more crucial than ever. Equip yourself with the knowledge and skills to create positive change.
Workshop Content Breakdown:
- Identifying positionality and shame in the context of racism.
- Ethics of care: for self, for others.
- Foundational racial literacy.
- Examples of the four levels of racism in the Australian historical and cultural context.
- The impact of the refugee experience on attachment, development, and identity.
- Racial traumatic stress and its impacts on children and young people from refugee backgrounds.
- Impacts of generational trauma on people with refugee experience.
- Listening to racialised people with heart and mind.
- Promoting racial resilience and recovery.
- Neurobiology of trauma.
What You’ll Gain:
- Understanding Positionality and Shame: Learn to identify your own positionality within systems of racism and navigate the shame that can arise during these critical conversations, using Nathanson’s compass of shame.
- Ethical Care for Self and Others: Develop an ethical framework for supporting both yourself and others in the face of racism.
- Foundational Racial Literacy: Gain essential knowledge and tools to understand and dismantle racism.
- Real-World Examples: Explore concrete examples of racism at structural, systemic, interpersonal, and personal levels within the Australian context.
- Addressing Refugee Trauma: Understand the specific impacts of refugee experiences on attachment, development, and identity.
- Recognising Racial Traumatic Stress: Learn to identify and address the effects of racial traumatic stress in children and young people from refugee backgrounds.
- Understanding Generational transmission of Trauma: Explore how generational trauma affects individuals with refugee experiences.
- Effective Listening and Allyship: Develop skills to listen with empathy and become a proactive ally.
- Promoting Racial Resilience and Recovery: Implement strategies to foster resilience and support recovery in service delivery.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone working, volunteering or studying to work with children, young people and families from refugee backgrounds who are experiencing racism. This may include:
- Social workers
- Educators
- Community leaders
- Healthcare professionals
- Parents and caregivers
Our Trainer – Rafik Tanious
Counsellor/Trainer, STARTTS
Rafik Tanious has worked across the social ecologies of education, mental health and social services with children and young people for the past 30 years both locally and internationally. He has extensive field work experience working with children and adolescents with refugee backgrounds in case work, education and counselling. Rafik has a continuing interest in trauma recovery, anti-racism, and youth identity formation and has developed racial literacy, and racial resilience programs for young people with refugee experiences and produced anti-racism films on Cabramatta for the NSW Premiers department. Rafik has also been employed as a consultant and trainer with universities in supporting the mental health of international students, developing orientation programs and inter-cultural learning frameworks and facilitating cross cultural parenting programs. Read more….
This workshop provided me with practical tools and a deeper understanding of the impact of racism on young refugees. I feel more equipped to make a real difference.
Cost for calendar workshop:
Early Bird – $315 | $288 concession (5 tickets available, ends 2 months before event)
Standard – $350 | $320 concession
Note – there is a 5% late fee for registering after 8.30am the day before the event. Costs are in Australian dollars.
Registration for calendar workshops
All registrations are online and payment is by credit card. Please click on the relevant ‘Register’ button above. A confirmation email will be sent to you automatically which will include the Zoom link. You will receive a reminder email one week and one day before the event. Please see the terms and conditions below.
Training dates for calendar workshops
This workshop will be scheduled again in mid 2024. Please make a request for in-house training for your organisation if you need training earlier.
Workshop delivery
STARTTS workshops are delivered by trainers experienced in the trauma field. They are interactive and normally include small group discussions via breakout rooms, case studies, self-reflections, videos and other types of activities. This workshop is delivered via Zoom. The Zoom link will be included in the registration confirmation email and the reminder emails.
Certificates and handouts
A PDF of the slides will be emailed to you a day before the event. A certificate of completion will be emailed to you the day after the event.
CPD points – 6 CPD hours
This workshop adheres to the continuing professional development standards of most professional bodies. Please check the CPD policy of your professional body.
Request in-house training
This workshop is available upon request. Please go to the ‘Request Training‘ page for further information about workshop fees and how to make a request for your workplace. Please note that requests need to be made and confirmed at least 6-8 weeks in advance as we do get booked up.
Contact us
stts-training@health.nsw.gov.au
(02) 9646 6700 Ask for the Training Administration Officer
Terms and conditions
Payment of the registration fee is online by credit card and a receipt/confirmation will be automatically emailed to you. An administration fee of $30 applies to all cancellations made more than 14 days the day before the start of the event. Registration once paid cannot be cancelled 14 days or less the day before the start of the event, regardless of personal circumstances. Registration can be transferred to another delegate only if STARTTS is informed of the name change. Registration cannot be transferred to another workshop. The concession price is for full-time students, seniors and the unemployed. A photocopy or pdf of a valid concession card must be forwarded to the STARTTS training team upon registration. Registrations will not be confirmed until full payment is received. The deadlines for the early bird and standard prices cannot be extended. Sometimes STARTTS will need to change the trainer of a particular workshop. The STARTTS Training Team can be contacted at stts-training@health.nsw.gov.au or (02) 9646 6700.