applied
trauma-informed
online course 2024
online course 2024
applied
applied trauma-informed Leadership
JUL 10 - OCT 24, 2024
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PRACTICES FOR A CULTURE OF RADICAL CARE
For leaders in change movements, social enterprises, and NGOs
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Scholarships
Scholarships
We encourage young and mature leaders from Ukraine and the Fertile Crescent, People of Colour from the ‘Global South’ and Indigenous leaders to apply for a scholarship.
Identify and collect your personal toolbox of key practices and resources for trauma-informed approaches.
Recognize the complex interplay of individual, ancestral and collective trauma and prepare the ground for post-traumatic growth.
Learn to embody practical strategies for self-regulation and stress integration to transform wounds into wisdom.
Meet ‘difficulties’ as the way, rather than in the way, thus cultivating curiosity and catalyzing latent intelligence.
Engage more skillfully with relational challenges, including the ability to recognize and respond to symptoms of trauma.
Foster an increased capacity for systems sensing and meet the communities we serve with a higher level of response-ability.
Lead from the future and use creativity and prototyping as agile tools for collective restoration processes.
Identify and map your own implementation plan for trauma-informed architectures in your chosen environments.
Develop strategies for a network of trauma-informed practitioners and design healing culturally inclusive healing pathways.
You will embark on a journey of ancestral healing, collective trauma integration, and post-traumatic growth, and develop basic competencies for tapping into these resources with your teams.
4 MONTH
Course Duration
42 HOURS
Certification
live &
recorded
Online Course
2 - 4 hour
Weekly Time Investment
Embrace the future of responsive care and collective restoration as you embark on this empowering journey towards personal and collective transformation.
MODULE 1:
UNDERSTANDING CONTEXT - INTENTION SETTING & PERSONAL ALIGNMENT
WITH KOSHA JOUBERT & Maria leister
WED, JUL 10, 2024 - 18:00-20:00 CEST/ BERLIN
- Setting intentions aligned with trauma-informed values and principles
- Understanding the principle of care and its application in leadership contexts
- Techniques for the cultivation of presence and spaciousness – nurturing self-growth and compassion
MODULE 2:
BEFRIENDING OTHER - CREATING SPACES OF SAFETY IN THE WORLD
- Techniques for relational attunement and co-regulation
- Enhancing interpersonal communication skills within trauma-informed frameworks
- Cultivating care: enhancing empathy and compassion in relationships
WITH Jens Riese
THU, JULY 18, 2024 - 18:00-20:00 CEST/ BERLIN
MODULE 3:
BEFRIENDING ANCESTRY -
EMBODYING THE GROUND WE WALK UPON
WITH Efu Nyaki
wed, JULY 24, 2025 - 18:00-20:00 CEST/ BERLIN
- Acknowledging the living past that is showing up through us and between us
- Conscious work with cultural resources and wisdom, and cultural wounds
- Celebrating and honoring diversity and the need for cross-cultural healing
MODULE 4:
BEFRIENDING SELF -
CREATING SPACES OF SAFETY WITHIN
WITH DEB DANA
THU, AUG 22, 2024 - 18:00-20:00 CEST/ BERLIN
- Understanding the neurobiology of trauma and healing
- Coming back to states of self-regulation, resourcing, and grounding to integrate anxiety and stress
- Practical skills for the navigation of neuroception – working with touchstones and cues for safety and danger
BEFRIENDING OUR NERVOUS SYSTEM
WITH DEB DANA
1. See session above
2. 24 August - 18:00 - 20:00 CEST/ BERLIN
3. 25 August - 18:00 - 20:00 CEST/ BERLIN
MODULE 5: BEFRIENDING OUR HUMAN EXPERIENCE - ENTERING THE REALM OF COLLECTIVE TRAUMA INTEGRATION
WITH Thomas Hübl
SUN, SEP 1, 2024 - 18:00-20:00 CEST/ BERLIN
- The 6 Stages of Collective Trauma Integration
- Understanding the relationship dynamics in harmful situations
- Developing basic competencies for approaching collective trauma integration
MODULE 6:
GROWING A HEALING ARCHITECTURE - TRANSFORMING YOUR SOCIAL IMPACT CIRCLES
WITH Louise Marra
THU, SEP 5, 2024 - 20:00-22:00 CEST/ BERLIN
- Developing strategies for the creation of a network of trauma-informed practitioners
- Growing a culture of trauma-informed care and bringing in marginalized voices
- Designing healing architectures that are culturally responsive and inclusive
DEEP PERFORMING TEAMS
with Louise Marra
1. See session above
2. 7 Sept - 20:00 - 22:00 CEST/ BERLIN
3. 8 Sept - 20:00 - 22:00 CEST/ BERLIN
MODULE 7:
BEFRIENDING LIFE - EMBEDDING OURSELVES IN EMBODIMENT, EARTH AND EMERGING FUTURE
with Steffi Bednarek
Thu, 12 September , 2024 - 18:00-20:00 CEST/ BERLIN
- Fostering an increased capacity for systems sensing – meeting the living systems we serve with a true capacity for response-ability
- Healing the gap between us and all life on this planet to nurture regenerative solutions
- Aligning with the emerging future for the highest common good
MODULE 8:
THE 4D MODEL OF A
TRAUMA-INFORMED APPROACH
WITH FLAVIA VALGIUSTI
WED, OCT 2, 2024 - 18:00-20:00 CEST/ BERLIN
- Understanding the principles of the 4D model and its application in practice
- Implementing trauma-informed approaches across different settings and cultures
- Applying the model to grow a culture of trauma-informed care in organizations and communities
Trauma-Informed Law
with Flavia Valgiusti
1. See session above
2. 5 Oct - 18:00 - 20:00 CEST/ BERLIN
3. 6 Oct - 18:00 - 20:00 CEST/ BERLIN
MODULE 9:
CULTIVATING MORAL COURAGE -
THE PROCESS OF ETHICAL RESTORATION
WITH Maria Leister
Wed, 9 October - 18:00-20:00 CEST/ BERLIN
- Developing strategies for ethical decision-making in trauma-informed care
- Stepping outside the comfort zone with vulnerability and accountability, taking risks in the service of ethical principles
- Growing circles of support and actively working to repair harm
MODULE 10:
LIFE AS PRAYER -
ATTENDING TO LIMINAL SPACES
WITH KOSHA JOUBERT
THU, OCT 24, 2024 - 18:00-20:00 CEST/ BERLIN
- Recognizing and navigating liminal spaces within a culture of trauma-informed care
- Implementing trauma-informed practices on a global scale – walking together
- Bringing this course into fruition – becoming the ones we have been waiting for
Embark on this empowering journey towards personal and
collective transformation.
3
Integration SESSIONS
Your experience will be enhanced by the opportunity to participate in peer groups and triads
Dates:
- 15 Aug, 18:00 – 19:30 CET
- 19 Sep, 18:00 – 19:30 CET
- 17 Oct, 18:00 – 19:30 CET
recording,
transcript and
handouts
Live interactive Zoom sessions and exclusive access to all course materials to be used at times that work for you.
2
BIPOC
Sessions
If you are Black, Indigenous, Asian, or a person of color these sessions provide an environment for you to feel safe and supported.
Dates:
- 23 Jul, 18:00 – 19:00 CET
- 26 Sep, 18:00 – 19:00 CET
2
Advanced Mentoring
Sessions
6
INTEGRATION
SESSIONS FOR
UKRAINIANS
Doing the Trauma-informed Leadership Course was one of the highlights of my professional learning of the past years. All the teachers were phenomenal.
– Dana Lanza, CEO Confluence Philanthropy
The Trauma-informed Leadership training is an experience essential for all purpose driven leaders, a transformational encounter.
– Patricia Ferrar-Rivas, CEO Veris Wealth Partners
Thomas Hübl
Thomas Hübl, PhD, is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change, integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since the early 2000s, he has led large-scale events and courses on the healing of collective trauma.
He is the author of Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World and Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds. He has served as an advisor and guest faculty for universities and organizations, as a coach for CEOs and organizational leaders, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University.
Louise Marra
Louise Marra has spanned a broad range of sectors having held senior leadership and governance roles within Government, the private sector, philanthropy and the NGO sector. She has been an advisor to the Prime Minister, led a collaborative government office and has guided the set-up of social innovation labs both for Government and philanthropy.
Louise is a founder of Spirited Leadership and a founder of Unity House. She has her own individual and group coaching and development practice which brings together many years of practice in facilitation, meditation, mindfulness, nature based programmes, yoga, qi gong, transpersonal psychology and shadow work. Louise works both globally and locally and is the director of the Leadership New Zealand programme and a catalyst and advisor for the Centre for Social Impact.
Louise descends from the iwi Ngāi Tuhoe, and her practice is deeply grounded in indigenous principles. She has post-graduate university qualifications in environmental management, public policy and Jungian and transpersonal psychology and is a certified coach.
Steffi Bednarek
Steffi Bednarek is a climate psychology consultant, trauma therapist, writer, public speaker, and event curator at the intersection of climate change, psychology, and ecological thinking. Steffi’s work nurtures psychologically informed climate leadership, collective nervous system regulation, and regenerative action in a time of global upheaval.
Steffi has worked with national governments, the corporate sector, global financial institutions, the sustainability sector, and large NGOs. Her work has been featured in international publications, peer-reviewed academic journals, numerous book chapters, podcasts, and documentaries.
Flavia Valgiusti
Dr. Flavia Valgiusti is a lawyer, social psychologist, and neuroscience and criminal law expert with extensive international consulting experience. She has served as a Juvenile Court Judge in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and currently directs the Institute of Neuroscience and Law at the Bar Association of Argentina.
As a UNICEF Consultant in Trauma-Informed Approaches, Dr. Valgiusti has worked in North Macedonia and authored the “Trauma-Informed Approach Handbook,” published in Macedonian, Hungarian, English, and Spanish. She is a professor in the Master’s Program in Criminology and facilitates collective trauma groups for the Pocket Project.
Dr. Valgiusti completed postgraduate studies in Transpersonal Psychology with Dr. Carlos María Martínez Bouquet. She also participated in the Advanced Studies Program on Collective Traumas at the University of Witten Herdecke in Germany. Speaker and author, she has numerous publications in academic journals and books.
Deb Dana
Deb Dana, LCSW, is a clinician, consultant, and author. She is a founding member of Polyvagal Institute, consultant to Khiron Clinics, and advisor to Unyte. Deb is well known for translating Polyvagal Theory into a language and application that is both clear and accessible and for her significant contribution pioneering Rhythm of Regulation® methodology and practices which open up the power of Polyvagal Theory for professionals and curious people from diverse backgrounds and all walks of life.
Deb is the author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation(Norton, 2018), Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered Practices (Norton, 2020), Polyvagal Practices: Anchoring the Self in Safety (Norton, 2023), Polyvagal Prompts: Finding Connection and Joy Through Guided Explorations, Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory, co-editor of Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies, and creator of the Polyvagal Flip Chart and the Polyvagal Card Deck.
Jens Riese
Jens Riese works as transformational coach, trauma therapist, leadership trainer and social change facilitator. He has been supporting government, NGO and company leaders, as well as communities through transformations for 20 years. As Senior Partner at McKinsey he co-founded and led practices for sustainability, economic development and centered leadership. Jens supported more than 20 countries and 50 companies in designing and implementing plans for a more sustainable and resilient economy. He pioneered the use of lab approaches to engage diverse stakeholders from all sectors in social change and crisis recovery, incl. in Tanzania, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone and Papua New Guinea. Jens has been studying intensively with Thomas Hübl and has hosted some of his online events. His therapeutic training includes IFS, NARM, NLP, LCP, somatic and team coaching. He has a PhD and research background in developmental and evolutionary biology as well as environmental management.
Efy Nyaki
Efu Niyaki was born and raised in Tanzania where she earned a bachelor of science degree, trained as a Science teacher, and later on, trained as a healer.
Efu is a Faculty Member of Somatic Experiencing®, and a Professor of Family Constellation System Therapy with the Hellinger Institute. In the last 27 years, Efu has been living in Brazil and facilitating training and therapy for trauma healing using Somatic Experiencing®. She has been travelling to bring her work to other countries, including India, Egypt, South Korea, China, Bolivia, Peru, Spain and Uruguay. Due to the Pandemic, Efu has been taking her work online and became even more international.
Efu is a co-founder of AFYA: a healing centre, run by women, which offers alternative forms of preventative health care and holistic healing to adult and adolescent women, their families and their communities in impoverished areas of northern Brazil. AFYA, meaning ‘health’ in Swahili, the language spoken in Tanzania and parts of East Africa.
Kosha Joubert
Kosha Joubert serves as CEO of the Pocket Project. She holds an MSc in Organisational Development, is an international facilitator, author, coach and consultant, and has worked extensively in the fields of sustainable development, curriculum development and intercultural collaboration.
Kosha grew up in South Africa under Apartheid and has been dedicated to the healing of divides and collective trauma ever since. She has been learning with Thomas for 15 years. She has served as a host and mentor for almost all of Thomas Hübl’s online courses, co-moderated two of the Celebrate Life Festivals and was a co-host of the 2019 and 2020 Online Summit on Collective Trauma.
Maria Leister
Maria is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Pocket Project and serves as a Director at the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, advocating passionately for trauma-affected refugees and addressing global forced migration challenges. Her extensive program leadership experience, including roles at Harvard Law School’s criminal defense program and strategic planning in the private sector, uniquely position her to establish culturally responsive service networks.
Maria’s background in law and profound understanding of mental health trauma inform her impactful work and scholarship. Currently pursuing a Master’s degree at Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics, Maria earned her JD from Indiana University and completed a fellowship at Harvard University’s Office of the President, enriching her interdisciplinary approach to addressing humanitarian crises.
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