Intensive weekend seminars provide helping professionals with real-world techniques to use immediately in their practices and organizations. This is not just "another seminar" that concentrates on more theory. Arrive on Friday and we guarantee you'll have clinical action tools you can use on Monday.

Each training workshop focuses on one area of interest and teaches one of the 14 intervention modules of the Therapeutic Spiral Model with attention to theory, supervised practice, and personal applications of the methods. Many people take the workshop on Containment with Experiential Methods and learn how to safely add action methods to their practice and community settings.

There are twelve required weekend training workshops for full accreditation in the Therapeutic Spiral Model, covering three tracks: Core Action Courses, Clinical Track, and TSM Applications. Some people take one here and there. Some do the whole course. It is up to you and all workshops are open to people of all skills levels and professions.

To register for a workshop, first check the Workshop Schedule and then fill out the registration form on the Registration Page.

A three-year applied course with direct guidance, instruction and supervision from a team of trainers is available for professionals who wish to pursue in-depth training in the Therapeutic Spiral Model with action trauma team-building, or who wish to be accredited to train others. One of the outcomes of the three-year training is that you will have your own local action trauma team in place at the conclusion of the course.

Refer to the following documents for more complete information about the accreditation course.

• User Friendly Overview of Accreditation in TSM
  
• Accreditation Overview
  
• Accreditation Complete Description
  
• Application to Enter Accreditation

Personal Restoration and Self-Care

TSI also offers 3-12 day retreats set in beautiful settings around the world for people to come restore and renew their body, mind, emotions and spirit using the Therapeutic Spiral Model and Action Against Trauma. Over the past 20 years, we have developed a program of care for providers who work with the direct effects of violence to come have a safe place to debrief, find themselves, and access their creativity. Check the Calendar page for our annual Summer Retreat at a wonderful venue, Sunrise Ranch near Boulder, Colorado and our Annual Fall Retreat for Professionals held at a home on the Outer Banks of North Carolina


You will hear again and again, the cry for "self care for providers" among the TSI staff. This is one of the core beliefs at TSI and as you read Dr Kate’s story in her column, the archives, and her books, you will see this comes from her personal experience. Having NOT taken adequate care of herself, her own life became overwhelmed by PTSD and addiction before she found adequate care. This is part of what started TSI and we hope to create healing retreats for people who need them in order to be the leaders they are to others, whether one person at a time or as a community leader in your own right.As many people effected by violence are the very ones on the front lines of helping others, self-care becomes more and more imperative. Come join us for workshops that include meditation, yoga, massage, energy, art, sound and movement in addition to action methods of change.

TSM is built around the team concept. All education, training, and personal growth groups are led by a team of professionals and volunteers. As we build local Action Trauma Teams in seven countries at the moment, team members come together to co-create moments of healing, community and change with participants from around the world. Hearts touch and minds soar. Team Connections is a place where we share photos and writings of TSI trainers, team leaders, and students alike. It is a good way to get to know those of us in the TSI community and to put faces to names you hear in the newsletter or the listserve.

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This is a photo of one of the TSM Philadelphia teams that have held workshops with Colleen Baratka, MA, RDT, TEP for the past several years. Look for a new woman’s group Coming Home to Self starting this summer with a residential workshop in July. Dr Kate will lead this group along with a core TSI team that will include Mimi Cox, LSCW, Pat, Cathy Wilson, M.Ed, RN, CP, Judy M. Hoy, LICSW and Nancy Zink, MA. TSI Schedule

We have started a new TSM relationship group on attachment in Ottawa, Canada. Breaking the Bonds of Trauma is a closed group for men and women to examine their attachment styles and learn how to form healthy connections to others. Our fully trained TSI team includes Dr Kate with Monica Forst, M.Ed., James McDonnel, RSW, Andy Fisher, Ph.D., Viola Basque, MA, and Roy Salole, MD.
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The Center for Human Becoming, a counseling center run by Catholic Ministries in Taiwan is offering TSM healing workshops for their clients. This team includes Dr. Lai Nien Hwa, Dr Kate, Mimi and a group of students from the closed TSM Leadership Group in Asia that will meet for the next year. See us enjoying a new team tradition: Dumpling lunch!
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TSM returns to Kaoshiung, Taiwan, ROC. Dr Hudgins and Dr Cho lead a team of Chinese clinicians offering a Self-Care for Professionals weekend in Kaoshiung, where we did our first several TSM workshops. We hope to return there again later this year.

See the Team Connections Archive for more team photos.