Safe Space provides access to a wide range of trauma training, with an annual CPD programme including in-person workshops and online world-class therapists.
With thanks to Fife Voluntary Action Community Health and Wellbeing Fund for making these specialist events possible.
Sunday 18th and Sunday 25th January 2026
10.45am - 4.15pm both days
2-day workshop which offers a theoretical framework to examine links and commonalities between these areas, drawing on experiential working, case discussion and group demonstration, to include:
- The distorting effects of shame
- Links with overwhelming emotion & depersonalisation
- Effects on body image
- Survivors' perspectives
- Inter-related physiological & psychological dimensions
- Implications of recent findings in neuroscience research
- Flexible & creative empathic responses to shame-based communication
- Impact of policies and procedures
- Further learning resources
Sunday 1st and Sunday 8th February 2026
10.45am - 4.15pm both days
2-day workshop integrating theoretical, experiential and practice elements, to explore the threads of relating which can be subtly affected by traumatic experience, to include:
- The nature of empathy (the spectrum; fundamental aspects of humanity and connectedness; congruent communication)
- The impact of trauma (developing sense of self; silence, secrecy and confusion)
- Conflicting personal dynamics in relation to the unspoken (acceptance/rejection; a framework to understand and explore merging/withdrawal)
- Somatic reactions (adrenaline; sexuality; dissociative experiences)
- Developing understanding of "professional" vs "personal" processes (aspects of supervision; commitment to self-care
External participants are welcome to join at a cost of £100 for workshop 1,
and £200 for both workshops 1 and 2
Please contact Safe Space directly to book
Sexuality and Sexual Preoccupation in Trauma Therapy
Sunday 15th February 2026
Sandtray
Sunday 1st March 2026
Narcissistic Threads in Relationship: Working with Stuckness in Therapy
Sunday 8th March 2026
Shame; dysregulation; sensorimotor psychotherapy
Access to modules and presentations by Carolyn Spring, Babette Rothschild, Christiane Sanderson, Bessel van der Kolk, Pat Ogden, Peter Levine, Cathy Steele and others, via Nscience, NICABM and The Awake Network.