This 8-week deep-dive class is open to those who have attended the Trauma Healing 101 introductory workshop (live or on-demand) and want to go deeper into their understanding and treatment of trauma in their practice. Participants will earn the designation of “trauma-informed” on completion of this course.
Course Schedule
Class One: Your presence is the agent of healing. Managing boundaries, structure and staying in your lane.
Class Two: The Pyramid of Traumatic Experience. From trauma happening now to prenatal, epigenetic and past-life trauma – what’s yours to do, what to refer and how to discern the difference.
Class Three: All about the brain. Survival responses. The window of tolerance. How to desensitize distressing images, nightmares and events.
Class Four: Demonstration and practice session
Class Five: Trauma and the Rule of Two: why trauma symptoms show up when they do. Presenting issues vs feeder issues, memory repair and rightsizing.
Class Six: The brain’s information processing system. Short term vs long term memory. The purpose of nightmares and flashbacks. A three-stage healing process.
Class Seven: Demonstration and practice session
Class Eight: Prenatal, inherited, epigenetic and past-life trauma
Continuing Education Summary
- 7 Core Competency credits
- 9 Resource Development credits
- TOTAL: 16 hours of ICF approved credits
Course Objectives
- Describe the Pyramid of Traumatic Experience and why it’s important
- Explain the significance of The Rule of Two
- Demonstrate two interventions you could offer when a client is experiencing a trauma response
- Describe the indicators that a referral is warranted