This 8-week deep-dive class is open to those who have attended the Trauma Healing 101 introductory workshop 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
Week One: Your presence is the agent of healing. Managing boundaries, structure and staying in your lane.
Week 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.
Week Three: All about the brain. Survival responses. The window of tolerance. How to desensitize distressing images, nightmares and events.
Week Four: Demonstration and practice session
Week Five: Trauma and the Rule of Two: why trauma symptoms show up when they do. Presenting issues vs feeder issues, memory repair and rightsizing.
Week Six: The brain’s information processing system. Short term vs long term memory. The purpose of nightmares and flashbacks. A three-stage healing process.
Week Seven: Demonstration and practice session
Week Eight: Prenatal, inherited, epigenetic and past-life trauma
Optional Practice Partner Sessions: 4 x 60 minute sessions with assigned practice partners
Continuing Education Summary
- 7 Core Competency credits
- 9 Resource Development credits
- 4 Optional Resource Development credits
- TOTAL: up to 20 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
Dates
Tuesdays, October 21 – December 16, 2025; 7.30am – 9.30am Pacific Time
No class November 18