Trauma-Informed Women in Leadership

Trauma-Informed Women in Leadership
Resourcing and Relatedness for Collective Restoration
For women who dare to step into spaces where love & power meet
About the Course
We celebrate the power and beauty of women. We celebrate how far we have come since our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers started raising their voices.
Please join us from May to October 2023 as we unfold our potential as women who dare to step into spaces where love and power meet. The world is calling for us to deepen our relatedness, with ourselves and each other, with our teams and our ancestries, with our dignity and humility.
Each of us can become a focal point for coherence and safety. Each of us can start to create healing architectures around us. As we awaken our resourcing and resilience as women, we empower ourselves to meet, address and heal individual, ancestral and collective trauma. Our collective wounds need a collective body to heal.
The Trauma-Informed Women in Leadership Course is a progression from the Trauma-Informed Leadership Course 2022, offering access to all those materials, but adding a uniquely feminine perspective.
Are you interested in the course and would like to be informed once registration opens up?
questionnaire
As we continue to shape the content of the course (with an array of brilliant speakers to be announced soon), please help us to understand your interests and wishes. What are you most longing for? What would you like to learn and experience? Who would you like to learn with?
This questionnaire will be open for 10 days only, from 8 – 18 March 2023. All questionnaires completed by March 18th will be entered into a raffle and three winners will be gifted with free participation in the course!
I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life. Maya Angelou
LEARNING OUTCOMES

Tools for the cultivation of presence, resilience and spaciousness - nurturing our self-growth and ability to step into spaces where love and power meets

Tools and frameworks to refine our leadership and develop trauma-informed guidelines and healing architectures

Willingness to engage with ‘difficulties’ as the way, rather than in the way - cultivating curiosity and catalysing latent intelligence

Ability to engage more skillfully with team and community challenges, including the ability to recognize and respond more adequately to symptoms of stress and trauma

Increased capacity for relational and systems sensing - the ability to meet the communities, organisations and environments we serve with a higher level of response-ability

Capacity to lead from the future and use creativity and prototyping as strategic agile tools for collective restoration processes
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Programme outline
All course sessions with take place from 7-9pm CET (Central European) – You can use this Time Zone Converter to convert to another time zone.
Module 0: Overview - Trauma-Informed Women in Leadership - Louise Marra & Kosha Joubert
- How can we wake up to the hidden variable in our societal matrix: individual, ancestral and collective trauma?
- How can each of us become a focal point for relationality and coherence?
- How can we build a collective body to heal our collective wounds?
Module 1: Finding our Voice in Times of Complexity - Nora Bateson
- Exploring the nature of individual, ancestral and collective resilience and trauma
- Reflecting on the nature of complexity and our purpose as leaders
- Learning about vision and engagement as two core activities of leaders
Module 2: Womanhood & Personal Thriving - Deb Dana
- Accessing our sources of resilience to lead from a place of clarity and compassion in times of crisis
- Reflecting on the nature of personal trauma and how our inner work builds a solid foundation for our outer work
- Understanding how the qualities of vulnerability and strength can combine in our leadership
Module 3: Basic Competencies for Self- & Co-Regulation - Anne Huhn
- Cultivating presence & relating in our service to the world
- Gathering our toolkit of basic competencies for inner resilience, resourcing and trauma recognition
- Exploring topics of self-care and group coherence
Module 4: The Art of Creating from Trauma - Yehudit Sasportas
- Looking at the past and acknowledging what happened to your organisation that was traumatising
- How can rapid learning loops be initiated that help the organisation to move towards trauma sensitivity and trauma integration?
- What is needed for a process of integration and restoration that leads to ongoing organisational resilience?
Module 5: Leadership & Team Collaboration - Bettina Rollow
- Accessing sources of resilience for teams
- Expanding our capacity for trauma recognition and trauma-informed collaboration within our teams
- Exploring the significance of our influence as a leaders
Module 6: Dismantling Systems of Oppression - Karen Simms
- Acknowledging the larger cultural and historical dynamics of collective resilience and trauma which your organisation is working within
- Assessing the effects of the fields of trauma that you are addressing as an organization on your team and structures
- Strengthening your contribution towards societal and cultural trauma sensitivity and trauma integration
Module 7: Leadership & Organisational Thriving - Louise Marra
- Exploring the signs and symptoms of racialized trauma and how it impacts a team’s climate and culture
- Adopting essential elements to respond to those impacted by racialized trauma and avoid further traumatization
- Understanding how to identify and embrace cultural diversity as a strength to foster and build
Module 8: Leadership & Collective Restoration - Maria Leister
- What is the nature of the future and how might it resource us for our journey?
- How can we create the inner conditions and outer practices to distinguish the whisper of the future from the habits of the past?
- How can we innovate as individuals, teams and organizations?
Module 9: Leading from the Future - Kosha Joubert
- Contextualising ‘Guidelines for Trauma-Informed Practice’ for communities and organizations
- Adopting essential elements to respond to those impacted by trauma and avoid further traumatisation
- Understanding how to identify and embrace cultural diversity as a strength to foster and build
Module 10: Cultivating a Healing Architecture - Kosha Joubert
- What is the nature of the future and how might it resource us for our journey?
- How can we create the inner conditions and outer practices to distinguish the whisper of the future from the habits of the past?
- How can we innovate as individuals, teams and organizations?
self-Paced Learning Course REGISTRATION
*Payment for the course is in Euros. The price in dollars will depend on the conversion rates on the day on which the payment is being made.
All income from this course will support the non-profit work of the Pocket Project!
Scholarships
We would like to encourage Women of Colour from the ‘Global South’ and/or women who may have experienced systemic exclusion in their country of residence, and don’t currently have the resources to cover the costs of the Trauma-informed Leadership Course, to follow this link to the scholarship application form – the Pocket Project is sponsoring spaces for people like you! Welcome!!
COURSE REGISTRATION
*Payment for the course is in Euros. The price in dollars will depend on the conversion rates on the day on which the payment is being made.
All income from this course will support the non-profit work of the Pocket Project!
Scholarships
We are offering full scholarships for the Trauma-informed Leadership Course to People of Colour from the ‘Global South’ and/or Ukrainians. Alternatively, if you don’t have the resources to cover the costs of the course, you can apply here for a 50% reduction. Welcome!
Facilitators

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. Kosha has received the Dadi Janki Award for engaging spirituality in life and work and the One World Award for her work with the Global Ecovillage Network. She serves as host and mentor on Thomas’ online courses, co-moderated two Celebrate Life Festivals and was a co-host of the 2019 and 2020 Online Summit on Collective Trauma.

Louise Marra
Louise is author and founder of ReRoot – a self and systems change book and social enterprise that helps create transformation through sewing ourselves back into the web of life. She leads systems healing projects training leaders in restorative leadership and working with decolonisation processes. She has been a leader in many sectors, is trained in public policy, jungian psychology and is also a somatic therapist. See www.reroot.world for the book, details of the self paced course, and upcoming live call.

Karen Simms
Karen Crawford Simms, MAMFT, LMHC is an experienced consultant, trainer, facilitator, and coach. She has dedicated her life building trauma informed, healing centered and equitable systems, organizations, communities, and groups. She also works with healers, activists and leaders flourish and stay well. She is also the founding director of the Trauma & Resilience Initiative and Meridian K Consulting & Coaching services.

Hilorie Baer

Karen Gold Sherman

Laura Calderón De Le Barca
