Trainings
Trauma-Informed Leadership Training
Instructor
Ian Robertson, MSW, RSW
Format
Online or In Person
Duration
2 Days
Training Overview
This training equips organizational leaders with the knowledge and skills to foster a culture of safety, sanctuary, and trauma-informed care across all levels of their organization. Participants will learn how to recognize and respond to the ripple effects of historical trauma within mental health and substance abuse settings, including its impact on staff and organizational dynamics. A key focus of the workshop is guiding leaders in how to pivot their leadership style to embody trauma-informed principles—promoting empathy, collaboration, and emotional safety. Through this process, leaders will gain actionable strategies to transform their agencies into sustainable, “living” trauma-informed sanctuaries of care.
Who Is It For?
This training is ideal for:
What Will You Learn?
1
Building a Trauma-Informed Organization
How to begin the TIC organizational journey.
What is trauma-informed ‘treatment’?
‘Living’ your organizational trauma-informed system of care.
Creating the ‘Standards for Trauma-Informed Care’ – a means to organizational integration.
Cultivizing a culture of moral, social, mental & physical non-violence
2
Leadership and Organizational Dynamics
The crushed sanctuary effect on leadership.
Becoming aware of the role of counter-transferences with leadership.
Forces that determine leadership.
Leading trauma-informed ‘team’ and ‘community’ meetings.
Creating a culture of organizational justice and just processes.
Effectively confronting negative behaviours.
Being an effective decision-maker.
How emotions affect decisions.
3
Fostering Safety and Emotional Regulation
The role of sanctuary as ‘safety culture.’
The freeing power of social safety.
The freeing power of psychological safety.
The freeing power of physical safety.
Organizational hyperarousal.
Loss of emotional management.
4
Conflict and Workplace Challenges
Understanding types of conflict.
When adaptive coping becomes maladaptive.
Miscommunication, conflict, and organizational alexithymia.
Workplace stress, bad habits, and parallel processes.
5
Democratic Practices and Restoring Connections
Understanding the role of organizational democracy.
Creating a democratic workplace.
Leading democratic groups.
Democracy as an antidote to trauma.
Restoring healthy organizational attachment.
6
Core Values and Emotional Intelligence
Components to emotional intelligence.
The power of ‘holding space’ in TI leadership.
Subscribed components of a nonviolent community.
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