CRISIS Schema® Training Workshop

The CRISIS Schema® is a psychosocial system for helping people when they have experienced a potentially overwhelming incident/event or situation.

The psychosocial nature of the CRISIS Schema® means that ordinary people can be trained as Facilitators, in order to help other people in their organisations or social groups, providing immediate and effective support.

In short, CRISIS Schema® facilitator’s provide a supportive and humane response to the emotional and psychological needs of a fellow human beings when something bad has happened to them.

CRISIS Schema® facilitators don’t have to be clinically trained therapists or counsellors.

Rather, they can be caring professionals, peers and volunteers who have can demonstrate trustworthiness, discretion and non-judgmental values, and are suitably placed to support colleagues or dependents in difficult times.

CRISIS Schema® facilitators are equipped with a robust tool-set with which to provide an effective support system for colleagues, clients or service users in emotional or psychological distress.

The CRISIS Schema® can be used by trained facilitators upon first contact with someone in distress.

Uniquely, the CRISIS Schema® can be facilitated both during and following a critical incident, and also to provide ongoing support.

By training as facilitators, your people will be able to spot the signs of traumatic reactions, and have the skills with which to provide timely and effective support.

Essentially, any event, incident, situation or occurrence that has the potential to overwhelm a person’s natural coping abilities can be considered a critical incident.

This definition allows us to consider life events or situations that are not usually associated with trauma, and support people throughout a range of situations, such as (but not limited to);

– Financial loss

– Relationship closure

– Breach of trust

– Bullying

– Childbirth

– Redundancy

– Natural disaster

– Violent crime

– Terrorism

– Physical/emotional/sexual abuse

– Sudden bereavement

– Loss (of any kind).

This is not an exhaustive list – it must be considered that what is ‘critical’ is unique and subjective to the individual who experiences it, and regardless of the event or incident believed to be causal in someone’s distress.

Whatever has happened, the CRISIS Schema® can help.

No, the CRISIS Schema® is a psychosocial system of support, and therefore considered to be non-clinical.

The CRISIS Schema® is simply a way of providing a powerful and supportive conversation designed to enhance and support natural processing and recovery. Within the CRISIS Schema®, there is no analysis, interpretation, judgment or labelling.

There is no diagnostic approach.

Neither can the CRISIS Schema® be considered to be a form of ‘debriefing’ – the system’s theoretical construct, application and therefore outcomes are significantly different to those of psychological debriefing.

The CRISIS Schema® represents an evolutionary development within the field of Psychological First Aid.

The CRISIS Schema® is useful wherever there are people!

Here are a few key areas where the CRISIS Schema® may be particularly useful;

– Voluntary agencies

– Business

– Social work

– Emergency services

– Post terror/disaster recovery

– Community groups

– Clinical services

– Local authorities

– Criminal justice

– Travel industry

– Manufacture

– Construction

– Education

The CRISIS Schema® workshop takes 2 days to successfully complete and become certified.

Those facilitators wishing to develop their skills to work with groups of people can then undertake the Group CRISIS Schema® training, which is a further 2 days of developmental learning.

For those wishing to coordinate the work of CRISIS teams there is a further option to develop to the role of CRISIS Coordinator®, which requires the completion of a further 1 day workshop.