Presentations and Workshops

• Review of OVA's advocacy and counseling services
• How can we support you and how to refer people to OVA
• Approximate time: 20 minutes
• Prefer to provide this with the Supporting Survivors presentation

Traumatic experience happen every day and the CU Boulder community is not exempt. After a traumatic experience, usually friends, mentors, family, and sometimes faculty/advisors are the first to be told about these experiences. How one responds matters as it can impact healing, as well as whether the survivors will seek additional support. This session will focus on:

• The positive impacts of trauma-informed support and how it can help a survivor heal
• General information on the impact of traumatic events (for more in-depth on this point see other presentation on Neurobiology of Trauma)
• Skills that address how to respond to someone after they share about a traumatic or life disrupting event
• A section can be added on trauma informed mandatory reporting for "responsible employees" (those required to reports sexual misconduct, discrimination and protected class harassment)
• Approximate time: 30-60 minutes, depending on whether practice scenarios and mandatory reporting are included. 45 minutes at minimum is preferable.

• Information on what people may experience physically, emotionally and cognitively in the aftermath of a traumatic event
• How the brain and body respond to traumatic experiences, neurobiology of traumatic events
• Healing and recovery stage
• Presentation geared towards people already involved in a helping role or for a class discussing trauma
• Approximate time: 75 minutes

• Learn about vicarious trauma, compassion satisfaction vs. fatigue, and self-care.
• Explore barriers to self-care and attend to our needs in a new ways. (re-framing self-care)
• Presentation geared toward students, staff, and faculty who work in fields/roles that can have vicarious trauma (hearing about other people's traumatic experiences)
• Approximate time: 60 minutes

This presentations provides psychoeducation on intimate partner abuse (IPA), with an emphasis on increasing awareness and understanding of domestic violence, exploring its psychological impact, and empowering both survivors and secondary victims (those who support people with abusive partners) with knowledge of their rights, options, and resources. This presentation will cover:

• Understanding IPA (definitions, different forms of abuse, the impact it can cause)
• Healthy, unhealthy, and abusive behaviors in a relationship
• Defining healthy boundaries
• How to help a friend: safety planning, support, and the healing process
• Approximate time: 60-75 minutes

This presentation provides an introduction into how repeated discriminatory experiences can produce a traumatic response. Participants will learn how oppression can impact people’s stress responses and neurobiological development. Additionally, this presentation also addresses ways that we can hold ourselves and others accountable when we enable oppression, regardless of intent. The presentation will focus on:

• The overlap between oppression and trauma.
• Providing an introductory understanding of how chronic oppression can impact people’s stress responses and neurobiological development.
• The differences between the intent of our actions and the impact of oppression.
• Identifying means of being accountable for our (mis)actions and making repairs.
• Learning how OVA can support those impacted by oppression.
• Approximate time: 60 minutes.