• Introduction to Trauma
• The Code of Ethics, Guiding Principles, and Overall goals of the International Association of Trauma Recovery Coaching
• Syllabus
  

Module 2: Understanding Trauma Specialist as a Career

• What trauma is, the definition, it’s subtypes and classifications, including moral injury
• Intro to survival strategies
• The Parish Trauma Response Model (a detailed framework for how people experience trauma and healing)
• Experience and Impact of childhood trauma
• Trauma, Attachment, and Childhood Psychosocial Development
  

Module 3: Biology & Trauma

• Biological Impacts of Trauma on the brain, including its role in brain development
• The psychological aftereffects of trauma: Understanding the survival strategies /coping mechanisms /responses of trauma
• Introduction into Polyvagal Theory: the Autonomic Nervous System and Somatic Trauma Responses including Fear and Shame Adaptation
• Biological impacts of trauma on the body as a system
• Epigenetics

Module 4: Psychological Aftereffects of Trauma

• Common psychological diagnoses
• Common misdiagnoses among survivors
• Introduction to psychotropic medication

Module 5: Emotional Aftereffects of Trauma

• Emotions vs. Feelings - How trauma impacts our emotions, including how we interpret and process our own and the emotions of other’s
• The impact trauma has on emotional development
• Co-regulation, emotional regulation, and dysregulation,
• Emotional Intelligence and Literacy
• Survival strategies – more insight

Module 6: Relational Aftereffects of Trauma

• Statistics
• Social Engagement and the regulation of the Autonomic Nervous System
• Unhealthy relationship patterns learned during trauma
• Self-Abandonment, the Intrapersonal Bridge and Interpersonal Bridge
• How to lead in a trauma informed way
• Survival strategies – A deeper understanding

Module 7: Multi-Focal Aftereffects of Trauma

• Understanding Shame (Healthy and Toxic)
• The Shame Response System
• Understanding trauma responses of internal parts, autonomic nervous system survival states, and shame responses
• De-pathologizing Coping Strategies
• Survival strategies – further clarification

Module 8: Intergenerational Trauma

• Understanding the multi-dimensionality of trauma
• How trauma is embedded in families and cultures and what that means for each of us
• Intergenerational Trauma and Genograms – a tool for understanding

Module 9: Understanding the Multi-Dimensionality of Trauma Survivors

• Developing the capacity to understand trauma in the context of social, gender, racial, ethnic and historical frameworks
• Implicit Bias, Perception, and Privilege

Module 10: Working with Trauma Survivors

• How to work with trauma survivors safely
• Developing the capacity to remain grounded, centered and anchored in your work with trauma survivors
• The Social Engagement System - Trauma, attachment styles in children and adults and what that means for our relationships, our psychosocial development
• Relationship Rupture and Repair