Trauma Informed Care

and Practice

An Indigenous Approach to Developing Worker Skills

BUNDJALUNG

Northern Rivers NSW

30th & 31st May 2026

Venue: Wildernest - Wilsons Creek

10 minutes from Mullumbimby

Trauma Informed Care and Practice - An Indigenous approach to developing worker skills is a 2-day workshop is designed for anybody wanting to work with first nations people or diverse communities.

The content introduces the concept of 'Symptom as History' and provides tools to develop generational resilience in healing from trauma and systems transformation.

Developed by Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson AO and Dr Caroline Atkinson PhD and facilitated by IPAT.

The course unpacks the topics that are most commonly requested by therapists or those working in the Human Services field with Indigenous people who are living with trauma behaviours. This is an experiential and interactive workshop. A safe space to talk and lean about cultural issues that can support your confidence when working safely with diversity.

Learning Outcomes

Provides culturally relevant, trauma-informed and trauma specific, safe teaching learning experience.
Develop superior levels of confidence and ability to work in diverse and difficult situations.
Provides community based training linked to specific community needs.
Strengthens relationships between individuals, families, communities and workforce skills.
Fosters abilities and competence in the process of working with groups and communities in distress.

This is suitable for primary health workers or anyone working in the Human Service Sector.

Limited spaces available.

Cost:

$999

Times:

From 9:00am to 5:00pm daily

What is Provided :

Participants Training Manual
Workshop materials
Morning and afternoon tea
Certificate of attainment (PACFA Accredited)

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Trauma Informed Care

and Practice

An Indigenous Approach to Developing Worker Skills

GADIGAL / SYDNEY

29th & 30th July 2026

Venue: NCIE - Redfern

National Centre for Indigenous Excellence

The content introduces the concept of 'Symptom as History' and provides tools to develop generational resilience in healing from trauma and systems transformation.

Developed by Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson AO and Dr Caroline Atkinson PhD and facilitated by IPAT.

Learning Outcomes

Provides culturally relevant, trauma-informed and trauma specific, safe teaching learning experience.
Develop superior levels of confidence and ability to work in diverse and difficult situations.
Provides community based training linked to specific community needs.
Strengthens relationships between individuals, families, communities and workforce skills.
Fosters abilities and competence in the process of working with groups and communities in distress.

This is suitable for primary health workers or anyone working in the Human Service Sector.

Limited spaces available.

Cost:

$999

Times:

From 9:00am to 5:00pm daily

What is Provided :

Participants Training Manual
Workshop materials
Morning and afternoon tea
Certificate of attainment (PACFA Accredited)

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PSYCHEDELIC ASSISTED THERAPY

7-day on Country immersive

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Bundjalung | Northern Rivers

26th October to 1st November 2026

This seven-day, live-in, fully catered, residential training is designed for therapists and emerging psychedelic-assisted therapists who are seeking something deeper.

Nestled in the lush rainforest of the Byron Bay Hinterland at Avana Byron, this retreat-style training invites you into a different way of learning.

Grounded in both clinical practice and Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, this training offers an alternative to the dominant models currently shaping psychedelic-assisted therapy, reflecting a growing shift toward more relational, and culturally responsive approaches, with IPAT at the forefront of this work in Australia.

We work through a Two-Eyed Seeing approach, weaving together Western clinical frameworks with Indigenous knowledge systems, without collapsing one into the other. In doing so, we respect both, bringing them into right relationship as a bridge toward more connected, accountable, and culturally responsive pathways forward within Australia’s psychedelic therapy landscape.

You will receive the necessary foundations for psychedelic-assisted therapy within the Australian context, while also engaging the cultural, relational, and spiritual layers that are often left out of mainstream trainings, alongside clear pathways for how to responsibly integrate this deeper, embodied learning into clinical practice.

What You Will Experience

Creating safety within clinical and relational contexts.
Working with Social and Emotional Wellbeing frameworks grounded in Indigenous perspectives.
Practising spiritual, energetic, and somatic (embodied) awareness within therapeutic spaces.
Engaging in earth connection practices, with Country as lead facilitator.
Participating in experiential components including a guided breathwork day led by Australian Breathwork Association registered trainers, alongside role plays.
Understanding integration as a lifelong, relational process rather than a one-off intervention.
Translating embodied, relational and cultural learnings into safe, ethical, and effective clinical practice.

Decolonised Learning Format
Experiential, embodied, and somatic practice.
Group process and collective reflection.
Time on Country and connection with the natural world.
Integration woven alongside applied clinical skill development.
Bridging embodied learning with clinical application in ways that maintain integrity, safety, and accountability.

Who This Training Is For
Psychologists, psychotherapists, and counsellors.
Psychedelic integration therapists.
Health professionals and facilitators working with altered states.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and community workers.
Practitioners seeking a relational, ethical, and culturally grounded approach.

This is an opportunity to deepen your practice in a way that honours both ancient wisdom traditions and contemporary therapeutic approaches.

To learn not just how to do the work,
but how to be in right relationship with it.

This training is an answer to those who feel called into a deeper relationship with psychedelic therapy work.

As part of a growing movement toward more grounded, relational, and culturally responsive psychedelic therapy practice in Australia, with IPAT continuing to lead and shape this work.

Location:

Avana Byron, Wilsons Creek,

Byron Bay Hinterland

Dates:

26th October – 1 November 2026

Investment:

$5,500

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Our Training Team

Jem Stone

Jem Stone is an Australian First Nations woman from the Bundjalung Nation, cultural consultant, and trauma-informed therapist working at the intersection of Indigenous wisdom, earth connection, trauma recovery, and psychedelic-assisted care.

She is the Co-Founder and Director of Indigenous Psychedelic Assisted Therapies (IPAT), where she co-designed the culturally responsive IPAT model of care for psychedelic-assisted therapy, and has contributed to the Australian MDMA guidelines and the TGA’s authorised prescriber scheme guidelines to advocate for inclusive and culturally responsive frameworks in Australia.

Trained in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Rebirthing Breathwork, Wayapa Wuurrk, and We Al-li culturally informed, trauma-integrated facilitation, she works with clients both one-on-one and in group settings, with a specialisation in group facilitation, and is dedicated to creating culturally grounded, safer, and transformative therapeutic spaces.

Jem is a published writer, researcher, international speaker, and presenter, and a devoted community member, mother, and grandmother who walks gently in reverence as an Earth custodian.

A/Prof. Dr. Carlie Atkinson

Associate Professor Dr Carlie (Caroline) Atkinson is a proud Bundjalung and Yiman woman and an accredited Social Worker with a PhD from Charles Darwin University, 2009. Carlie is an international leader in complex and intergenerational trauma and strengths-based healing approaches in Indigenous Australia. Her work has centred on the interplay between trauma, violence and healing in Aboriginal communities, alongside extensive community and practice-based experience through collaborative, co-designed resource development. She developed Australia’s first adapted, culturally sensitive, reliable and valid Aboriginal trauma assessment measure.

Carlie is the CEO of We Al-li, where she designs and leads the delivery of Culturally Informed Trauma Integrated Healing Approaches (CITIHA), supporting organisations and communities across Australia and the Pacific in systems transformation and implementation. She is also a founding team member of Sacred Roots, contributing to the development of culturally grounded, relational healing spaces within psychedelic-assisted therapies ensuring they are grounded in culturally informed frameworks.

An Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, Carlie is a Chief Investigator on multiple major national research grants (MRFF, NHMRC and ARC), including the HEART Trial, which is investigating climate-related PTSD including the use of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. She is regularly invited to contribute to national policy and high-level advisory work across government and non-government sectors.

Carlie is also the founder of the Northern Rivers Community Healing Hub, an Indigenous-led, place-based healing response established following the 2022 catastrophic floods, which continues to support community-led recovery and resilience.

Dr. Biance Sebben

Bianca is a Clinical Psychologist based in Brisbane, Australia with a special interest in complex trauma, dissociative disorders including Dissociative Identity Disorder, and working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Bianca has worked across various contexts, including hospitals, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services and private practice.

Her interest in plant medicine began when she was in Mexico undertaking her PhD in Indigenous Psychology, where she became interested in traditional methods of healing, including plant medicines, and the need to facilitate access to traditional methods of healing to make western medical systems more culturally safe and accessible. Bianca’s approach to wellbeing is holistic, incorporating body, mind, spirit, community, and environment.

Bianca provides integration support to people who have had experiences with non-ordinary states of consciousness. She also has an interest in 5 MeO DMT and is a contributor to the FIVE 5 MeO Information and Vital Education platform.