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In the early stages of the pandemic, I crosswalked the skills in Social Emotional Learning, Emotional Intelligence, and trauma recovery to find that they have many in common. This was after 20-plus years of teaching a specific model of TIC, recognizing its roots in the disability community, and realizing that there will never be enough clinicians.

I cross-referenced these outcomes and crafted what users say is a life-changing, easy practical, even lighthearted learning experience without the time and cost of therapy, and if they are in therapy, they say makes it easier. Who wouldn’t want that?!

We've been reaching out to organizations whose people are stressed, burned out, and crispy critters from the mass trauma of the pandemic and whatever personal losses or trauma they have experienced before and since then. Many of them are pretty sure they already deliver trauma informed and trauma responsive care.

Sadly, no. The power dynamics are the same, staff skills and levels of healing are often perilously close to the skills and levels of the people they serve, and it’s the same old stuff with a new label. Developing trauma-responsivity challenges how we understand power, relationships, and developmental trajectories.

Ours is the work that’s “behind the behind.” It’s strength for the journey of reducing the impact of things that happen while developing skills to strengthen our “self.”

The benefits? Our work:

• Boosts emotional intelligence through a trauma-informed lens.

• Helps “unhook the hooks.”

• Reduces anxiety and self-hatred.

• Results in more compassion, less shame, more healing, better relationships with self and others (that’s what they say).

• Has a very low risk of rekindling or triggering trauma.

It:

• Supports skilled helpers as well as the people they serve.

• Is evidence-informed, present-focused, strength-based and as collaborative as hybrid learning can be.

• Comes in bite-sized chunks of not more than 20 minutes.

• Offers regular training calls.

• Can be completed solo or in groups.

• Has re-usable, easy to use forms.

• Contains lots of free resources that align with SAMHSA’s TIC principles.

Organizations (and coaches) can:

• License the material for their trainers to use on our platform, reducing variation from content taught.

• Complete custom train-the-trainers to learn how to capitalize on the course.

• Use for staff development by enrolling staff and building learning supports as well as client education.

Individuals can sign up solo, re-sell as affiliates and generate revenue, join training calls and even engage in one-on-one coaching.

Want to see what it’s all about?

https://thetraumainformedacademy.xperiencify.io/