You don’t have to be a mental health professional to join others on their healing journey.

Our Trauma Responsive Lens session is foundational in deepening your understanding and practice of trauma-responsive care principles, allowing you to match your impact with your intention.

The training explores:

• How complex trauma impacts the brain, body and behavioral patterns.

• 5 Core Convictions that support a trauma responsive mindset.

• Trauma responsive practices that help them be more present with those they support.

If you’re an educator, we offer a similar self-paced online course on developing your trauma-responsive lens. Learn more here.

It is common for caregivers, professionals, parents and educators to put themselves last. This session supports your growth in understanding and nourishing your own resilience.

Together, we will engage in activities that integrate the mind and the body. The experiential nature of the session will invite introspection, as well as connection with others, as a way to foster overall well-being.

When we experience trauma, we often feel unsafe, unseen and unheard.

Our Deep Listening session will focus on developing your capacity to be in a safe relationship with yourself and others through developing relational resilience.

Over the course of our time together, we will explore how deep listening is a trauma-responsive tool, as well as a key for successful organizational and community development.

As professionals and caregivers, it’s easy to get distracted by symptoms and pathology prior to understanding someone deeply in order to design tailored services and methods of support.

This session offers insight on the biographical timeline framework and how to show up as a team member. It also makes a case for WHY learning from someone's biography BEFORE designing services and supports is imperative.

Engaging in a biographical timeline process helps teams generate an understanding of the whole person by mapping their life story and generating trauma-responsive approaches for building resilience, healing, and growth.

This session will:

• Outline the purpose and principles of the biographical timeline framework

• Offer a deep dive into the components and roles of a biographical timeline

• Highlight how team members in a timeline session can contribute during each step

Our Hidden Resilience session explores the stress model and breaks down several 'challenging behaviors' experienced in a variety of settings.

These behaviors will be examined through a neuroscience lens, offering insight into their root cause and ways to approach these as survival strategies vs. problematic behaviors.

* This session is designed for those who support individuals with a developmental disability label. *

This session will unpack and dive into the following curiosities:

• What does it mean to 'co-regulate'?

• What does co-regulation have to do with trauma and stress?

• What's the difference between co-regulation and self regulation?

• Why does it matter that we grow our skills in co-regulation?

• What does co-regulation mean for caregivers and family members?

• What practices can we develop to grow our capacities for co-regulation?

These three-hour trainings offers a deep dive into each of three protective factors:

1. Voice/Choice/Control

2. Self-Esteem

3. Healing Power of Belonging

Here, you will learn about the impact of trauma and toxic stress, as well as strategies to grow resilience through the lens of each protective factor.

This engaging session is foundational when working to adopt a trauma-informed lens that easily translates into trauma-responsive practices.

Here, we will unpack ten misconceptions about trauma and trauma recovery, and instill the necessary knowledge and skills to understand trauma and impactful interventions for those you support.

“I have been to a handful of trauma-informed trainings but this one was by far the best! Danae was knowledgeable and engaging, and provided a level of understanding that I had not yet experienced.”