Trauma-Informed Best Practices with Myrna McCallum
Grandmother Buffalo Lodge Presents: Trauma-Informed Best Practices with Special Guest Myrna McCallum
Date and time
Location
10 Armoury St
10 Armoury Street Room 1-400, located on the Main Floor Toronto, ON M7A 0B9 CanadaAbout this event
- Event lasts 6 hours
Please join us online or in-person as special guest Myrna McCallum provides us with an overview of trauma-informed best practices within the legal system.
On-Line Training Option: "Introduction to Trauma-Informed Engagement" This five-hour training will explore how trauma presents in our workplaces, communications, and behaviours while offering historic and scientific context for the origins of our own trauma and response strategies. This course will inspire learners to develop their own trauma recovery practices which will strengthen their self-protection and self-preservation strategies.
In-Person Lunch and Learn: This one-hour session will provide an introduction to trauma-informed practice frameworks, and insights into the following questions:
o What is trauma-informed practice?
o How does it benefit lawyers, judges, and anyone who works with deeply traumatizing content, high-stress clients, and high-stakes situations?
o When you are involved in a process that involves people who have experienced trauma, how do you prepare?
o How do you interact with a person that has been impacted by trauma?
o What will you see and notice in a process that is becoming more trauma-informed?
o Proven strategies on how to make legal processes less traumatizing and harmful for everyone involved, including you
Bio:
Myrna McCallum is a true change-maker, award-winning podcaster, and leading champion of trauma-informed lawyering. She is the host of “The Trauma-Informed Lawyer" Podcast and acts as a subject matter expert on trauma-informed policy, procedure, and process. Myrna has also become a highly sought after public speaker due to her work on how trauma impacts lawyering.
Myrna is co-editor on two publications:
Canadian Law, Indigenous Laws and Critical Perspectives published by CanLII as a Criminal Law Open Access eBook and
Trauma-Informed Law: a Primer for Lawyer Resilience and Healing published by the American Bar Association.
Myrna received the 2020 Federal Department of Justice Excellence in Legal Practice and Victim Support Award, the 2022 Canadian Bar Association BC Aboriginal Lawyer’s Forum Special Contributor Award, the 2022 Saskatchewan Ombudsman’s Game Changer Award, the 2023 Canadian Bar Association BC Women Lawyers Forum Award of Excellence, and the 2023 Canadian Bar Association Cecilia I. Johnstone Award.