Application for Trauma-Informed Certification
Trauma-Informed Certification Program for Healing Arts Practitioners
Coming July 2025! Fill out the application to be considered for first priority as spots will be limited.
This in person immersive certification* is designed to deepen your understanding of trauma, enhance your facilitation skills, and ensure that your sessions are truly supportive and safe for those you serve.
Trauma Education:
- Understanding the neuroscience of trauma, the nervous system, the polyvagal system and anterior cingulate of the cortex.
- Exploring trauma-genesis, and how trauma manifests in the body and energy field.
- Examining common misconceptions about trauma.
- Discovering adaptations and mitigations and psychological criterion.
- Learning the ACE study and how these adaptations and mitigations manifest into human health issues.
Trauma Processing:
- Learning therapeutic approaches to help a client move through traumatic memories, responses, and releases.
- Discussing self-regulation and psycho-education
Trauma-Informed and Healing Centered Engagement Facilitation:
- Techniques to create a safe, grounded, and supportive healing space for clients.
- Consent-based facilitation & the power of gentle invitation
- Looking at empowerment and resilience structures, and trauma memory processing
- The power of presence
- Empathetic listening
- Communication skills
- Somatic mirroring in client sessions
- Creating a trauma sensitive and informed environment.
- Intuition vs. perception
- Appropriate self-disclosure
- Avoiding triggers & creating a safe experience for clients
- How to respond when a client dissociates or becomes overwhelmed
Energetic & Emotional Boundaries:
- How to protect your energy, avoid burnout, and maintain resilience while working with trauma-affected clients
- The importance of self-regulation
- Recognizing secondary trauma & burnout
- Practices for grounding and post-session clearing and integration
Somatic and Vibrational Approaches:
- Understanding somatic processes and how trauma is stored and released through the body
- The role of frequency & resonance in trauma recovery
- The science of sound & nervous system regulation
- The impact of sound on brainwaves and altered states (Alpha, Theta, Delta states).
- Overtones & harmonics: How different frequencies interact with the nervous system and energy body.
- The use of silence and stillness and deep listening
- The connection between sound, emotion, and memory—why certain sounds evoke deep spiritual or emotional experiences.
- Using sound to regulate without overactivation
- How to use specific instruments and frequencies for different outcomes
- Breathwork, mantra, and vocalization techniques for nervous system regulation or reset
Integration
- Application of trauma-informed and healing-centered care
- Building a trauma-informed business: Ethics, boundaries, & marketing
- Resources for further learning & certification
Investment:
Tier 1: $1700 if deposit is made prior to May 1st
Tier 2: $1900 by May 15th
Tier 3: $2100 by June 1st
Tier 4: $2300 by June 15th
Tier 5: $2500 by July 1st
Please fill out the application to be accepted.
A non-refundable deposit of $500 secures your place, with the balance due 10 days before we begin.
Where?
Training will take place at Community Yoga 3375 E Shea Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85028 with classroom sessions at Mesquite Public Library 4525 E Paradise Village Pkwy N, Phoenix, AZ 85032
Why This Training?
This training ensures that your sessions support deep healing without reactivating trauma responses. By integrating trauma-sensitive practices, you will enhance your effectiveness, expand your client reach, and cultivate a truly safe and transformative healing space.
*This is an independent certification course with an application and acceptance process, clear competency standards requirements, and an assessment process.