Training, Workshop & Keynote Speaking

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Guided by an intersectional feminist, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed approach, I offer training, workshops, and speaking events for service providers, professionals, students, and community groups.

  • Gendered-Violence & Trauma

    As Clinical Director and Supervisor of a multi-disciplinary team in a nonprofit anti-violence women’s organization, participants receive a close-up intimate experience of my narrative therapy informed social justice/feminist inspired therapeutic practice. Participants learn how to interview and support girls and women of diverse ages and backgrounds facing complex trauma and gender-based violence. I guide participants beyond standard trauma-informed approaches and facilitate my teaching by taking the learner inside the complexities of gender violence through storytelling, session videos, and my unaltered transcripts.

    Audience: Therapists, counsellors, service providers, community members, students, social workers.

  • Reconnecting with your Inner Child - Inner Child Therapy

    As children, we develop coping strategies that often carry into adulthood. These unconscious survival patterns, shaped by difficult or traumatic experiences, continue to influence how we see ourselves and respond to life.

    In this workshop, participants explore the belief systems formed in childhood, uncover how they shape the present, and learn interactive tools to connect with their inner child. These practices support self-discovery, healing, and deeper self-communication.

    Audience: Therapists, counsellors, service providers, community members, students, social workers.

  • The Tree of Life Workshop: Introduction and Practice

    The Tree of Life is a hopeful and inspiring approach for working with children, young people, and adults who have experienced trauma. Originally developed by Ncazelo Ncube and David Denborough (Dulwich Centre Foundation) to support children affected by HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, it has since been used worldwide in diverse contexts. Rosa Elena Arteaga has adapted this methodology through a trauma-informed lens, making it a valuable tool for healing and for team building within social service organizations.

    Audience: Therapists, counsellors, service providers, community members, students, social workers, and organizations interested in a team building workshop.

  • "Rosa's workshop was highly interactive. She brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise making learning engaging and accessible"

    Testimonial

  • "The presentation was eye-opening! I learned the first steps in using narrative therapy and discovered how powerful it can be when supporting survivors of gender-based violence."

    Testimony

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I am honoured to be living and working on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations (Vancouver, BC).