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
- 13 Resource Development credits
- TOTAL: 20 hours of ICF approved credits
Course Objectives
- Describe how trauma may manifest and where it could be impacting the coaching arc
- Describe the Pyramid of Traumatic experience, from distress that is present now, down to prenatal, inherited and intergenerational trauma
- Recognize where trauma is appropriate to work with in coaching and what should be referred to a mental health professional
- Describe the hallmarks of a traumatic reaction, how to name it and how to respond
- Explain the significance of The Rule of Two
- Demonstrate a progression of interventions to assist clients with self-regulation, embodiment, distress reduction and engaging the client’s highest and wisest self in the healing process
Dates
Tuesdays, February 3 – March 31, 2025; 9.30am – 11.30am Pacific Time
No class March 3