Teaching the Hurt Child

Community Workshop

Facilitator(s): Andrea Chatwin

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Date: Nov 6, 2025 | Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Teaching the Hurt Child provides a larger overview on attachment trauma & brain development, and how/why the teaching strategies matter.

How do we support children with trauma to feel safe? When you think about responding to a behaviour of children with attachment issues, what do we do differently? How can we shift our perspective?  

Facilitator(s): Andrea Chatwin

Andrea Chatwin holds a master’s degree in Counselling Psychology and has extensive experience as an Early Childhood Mental Health Clinician. She specializes in therapeutic responding to attachment and trauma, particularly focusing on children and youth who have had caregiver losses and placement disruptions. Andrea has worked overseas in orphanages and studied the effects of abuse, neglect and developmental trauma on children of various ages. She is trained in many different therapeutic modalities including EMDR, Parent Child Relationship Therapy and Watch, Wait and Wonder Intervention.

Important Details to Note Prior to Registering:

  • This online free training is offered to childcare staff working in Burnaby and Vancouver. 
  • Only registered individuals will be allowed to join the workshop.
  • Professionals attending will receive a professional development certificate if applicable within one week of the workshop.
  • Participation is required. Your video needs to be on, your camera must be enabled and your microphone working to receive your certificate. Participants must stay for the full workshop/course to receive a certificate.
  • You can join the Zoom link 15 minutes prior to the presentation start time. We will not admit anyone 15 minutes after the start time with respect to the presenters and participants.
  • All participants are expected to complete an online survey after the training.
  • If you cannot attend please do your best to provide 48 hours notice. If you do not cancel and do not show up you will be put on a waitlist and removed from future trainings.