Trauma-Informed Leadership
Equipping leaders with the skills to create and sustain an authentic workplace. Learn evidenced-based strategies you can implement today that will enhance and unite your team.
Cultivate a resilient and humane workplace.
Available for:
Education
Non-Profits
Business
In this course, you will learn to cultivate a workplace culture that is both resilient and humane. This program is designed to equip leaders with the skills necessary to create environments of safety, trust, collaboration, empowerment and choice. Through practical, evidence-based strategies, you will plan ways to foster relational trust, ensure physical and psychological safety and enhance team collaboration. Trauma-informed leadership will enable you to navigate complex interpersonal challenges with empathy, understanding and a shared vision.
Embrace the opportunity to lead by example, creating a therapeutic environment that supports every community member’s growth and healing.
Course Options
| Hours | Mode |
|---|---|
| 8 | online |
| 8 | in-person |
Learning Outcomes
Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the effects of trauma on brain and body development and recognise how organisational settings can mitigate or escalate these impacts.
- Implement a trauma-informed approach to leadership that nurtures academic, social and emotional growth among adults and young people.
- Assess and reinforce relational trust and psychological safety within their teams, employing evidence-based strategies to build and sustain a supportive team culture.
- Encourage collaboration and empower their teams by cultivating an open listening practice and coach-like questioning techniques.
- Support the collegiality, autonomy and motivation of team members by managing conflict with understanding, empathy and self-awareness.
Learning Activities
Trauma Impact Analysis
Participants reflect on how trauma is presenting within their team and with people in their care. They evaluate how a trauma-informed approach to leadership can support the development of a therapeutic environment and culture.
Trust-Building Action Plan
Participants critically analyse and plan to implement evidence-based trust-building strategies within their context.
Coaching Role Plays
Through role-play, leaders practise evidence-based listening and questioning techniques that help them better understand their team members' needs, wants and perspectives.
Challenging Conversations Protocol
Through the lens of motivation theory, leaders learn to navigate challenging conversations by seeking to understand the perspectives, emotions and identities of others, while focusing on values and needs alignment.