Members of emergency and first aid teams, such as front line workers, are confronted daily with traumatic situations such as accidents, natural disasters and terrorist attacks. Faced with stressed, shocked or traumatized victims, they also often have the heavy burden of managing the worry and anguish of victims’ families or loved ones.
The Covid-19 crisis leaves them even more exposed, both physically and emotionally. As a result of the build-up of stress, these first responders can experience physical, emotional and behavioral symptoms that can result in emotional injury, compassion fatigue or professional burnout.
Damage caused by stress exacts significant costs from our society in many senses, yet it can be avoided.
Let's give our helpers the support they need to do their best!
EmotionAid® can be used by anyone, anywhere, anytime.
The EmotionAid® training program will show you how to:
- Provide emotional first aid to victims and their loved ones as well as to your front-line staff
- Reduce the consequences of stress in emergency and daily life situations for yourself and for others
- Discharge stress accumulated in the nervous system and in the body
- Protect yourself from secondary trauma, compassion fatigue or emotional injury and prevent professional burnout
- Build individual and collective resilience to more successfully cope with challenges when they accumulate
EmotionAid® helps us regain our balance in all situations
The EmotionAid® training
- EmotionAid® Kit forvictims and their loved ones as well as to your front-line staff
- Training Sessions
- Individual Meetings
- Ongoing Supervision
EmotionAid® training programs are tailored to your needs:
1. Introduction to EmotionAid® – 4 hours
- Defining stress and trauma according to the Somatic Experiencing™ (SE®) method
- Brain function in times of stress and anxiety
- Introduction to EmotionAid® tools and principles for the relief of stress and anxiety – anywhere, anytime.
2. EmotionAid® Intermediate Training Program – 8 hours
- Defining stress and trauma according to the Somatic Experiencing™ (SE®) method
- Brain function in times of stress and anxiety
- The theoretical basis of EmotionAid®: Grounding, Resources, the Language of Sensations and Discharge
- Demonstration and hands-on practice of Grounding and Resources
- Presentation of the 5 Steps of EmotionAid®
3. EmotionAid® Full Training Program – 24 hours
- Defining stress and trauma according to the Somatic Experiencing™ (SE®) method
- Brain function in times of stress and anxiety
- The Language of Sensations: understanding it and learning to use it
- Resources: definition and implementation
- Activation symptoms: identifying your reactions to stress and those of others
- Grounding: demonstration and application
- Signs of Discharge and how to cause discharge to prevent the build-up of stress and bodily tension
- The 5 Steps of EmotionAid®: applying them to yourself and to others
- Physical, emotional and relational limits and the notion of security
- Introduction to collective trauma and the effects of trauma at group, community and national levels
During the EmotionAid® Full Training Program, we emphasize learning the process, integration, and practicing the tools. All teaching aids used during the course will be made available to the participants.
Classes and supervisions are provided by therapists trained in the Somatic Experiencing™ (SE®) method and certified as EmotionAid® facilitators by ITI Israel.
