Training
Training
Training Training
Building safer, more connected spaces through trauma-informed and embodiment training.
For Individuals
For Individuals
PEER SUPPORT CERTIFICATION TRAINING
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Trauma-Responsive Care & Systemic Impact Awareness
Next Session: Saturday, April 18, 2026 - Sunday, April 19, 2026
From: 1:00pm - 4:00pm (Online via Zoom)
Learn trauma-responsive, body-first approaches to Mental Health First Aid that strengthen safety, care, and community support.
Facilitated by:
Nicole Brown Faulknor, RP, Clinical Supervisor, Trauma Consultant, TCTSY-F -
Deconstructing Power Dynamics: Reimagining the roles of leaders and frontline workers by exploring how power is held and shifted during crisis situations—and how safety can be co-created.
Addressing Historical and Systemic Trauma: Understanding how stigmatization and systemic violence are reenacted in service environments and learning how to disrupt those patterns.
Integrated, Responsive Service Delivery: Practicing de-escalation techniques, trauma-informed advocacy, and effective communication across in-person, community, and digital settings.
Applied Intervention Skills: Equipping staff with real-world decision-making tools to assess risk, apply trauma-informed verbal strategies, and prevent harmful physical interventions.
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Upon completion, participants will be able to:
Confidently support people in moments of distress using trauma-informed and culturally safe approaches
Recognize and reduce unintentional harm in organizational care settings
Respond with clarity and compassion during high-risk or crisis situations
Understand and mitigate the impact of burnout, secondary trauma, and vicarious trauma as a helper or care provider
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Make effective, values-based decisions under pressure
Reduce harmful or reactionary interventions
Understand the roots of behavior through a trauma lens
Recognize and respond to risk in ways that preserve dignity and safety
Balance community care with self-awareness and self-care
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Participants will receive a certificate of completion and 12 Continuing Education Credits (CECs) through the Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals (OAMHP).
Building Communities: Trauma-Responsive Care & Systemic Impact Awareness;
Mental Health First Aid for Those Working with Racialized Youth (2-Day Training)
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This training is a trauma-responsive, body-first approach to Mental Health First Aid, designed for organizations working with Indigenous, African, Caribbean, and Black-identifying youth in crisis. Rather than relying solely on cognitive frameworks, we emphasize embodied learning—understanding trauma by exploring how it lives and shows up in the body.
Our training bridges theory and practice by integrating crisis intervention, preventative care, and systemic impact awareness. We custom-build each training to fit the unique needs of your organization or community, in consultation with your leadership or frontline team.
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Deconstructing Power Dynamics: Reimagining the roles of leaders and frontline workers by exploring how power is held and shifted during crisis situations—and how safety can be co-created.
Addressing Historical and Systemic Trauma: Understanding how stigmatization and systemic violence are reenacted in service environments and learning how to disrupt those patterns.
Integrated, Responsive Service Delivery: Practicing de-escalation techniques, trauma-informed advocacy, and effective communication across in-person, community, and digital settings.
Applied Intervention Skills: Equipping staff with real-world decision-making tools to assess risk, apply trauma-informed verbal strategies, and prevent harmful physical interventions.
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Upon completion, participants will be able to:
Confidently support youth in moments of distress using trauma-informed and culturally safe approaches
Recognize and reduce unintentional harm in organizational care settings
Respond with clarity and compassion during high-risk or crisis situations
Understand and mitigate the impact of burnout, secondary trauma, and vicarious trauma as a helper or care provider
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Make effective, values-based decisions under pressure
Reduce harmful or reactionary interventions
Understand the roots of behavior through a trauma lens
Recognize and respond to risk in ways that preserve dignity and safety
Balance community care with self-awareness and self-care
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Participants will receive a certificate of completion and 12 Continuing Education Credits (CECs) through the Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals (OAMHP).
For Organizations
For Organizations
RESPONSIVE CARE & IMPACT AWARENESS TRAINING
“Responsive Care Training” supports that by educating and building awareness, we can build stronger communities, erase stigmas and develop understanding.”
Duration: 2 Days
Cost: $1300 +HST*
Certification Awarded: Responsive Care & Impact Awareness Certificate
This trauma care training will offer support around becoming attuned to what it is like to do informed work and actually show up in your body, not just as someone with an intervention; a strategy; a solution to offer; or a service to provide.
For Both
For Both
Trauma Responsive Care & Embodiment Training For Racialized Leaders
This training is designed for racialized leaders, caregivers, community organizers, and those in helping roles who are seeking somatic tools to support personal and collective well-being. Whether you are working on the frontlines or offering informal care within your communities, this training will support you in resourcing yourself through body-based awareness and practices.
Trauma Responsive Care & Embodiment Training focuses on understanding the impact of trauma in racialized bodies, learning to work with nervous system dysregulation, and reclaiming space through practices of presence and grounding. Together, we will explore collective care strategies rooted in trauma-informed, culturally-responsive frameworks.
THIS TRAINING IS SUPPORTED BY THE WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
We are grateful to offer this program free of charge to racialized individuals thanks to the generous support of the Waterloo Region Community Foundation (WRCF) and local community donors.
Trauma Consulting Services & Embodied Coaching
Individual: 50 mins $90/hour
Groups/Organizational Teams: $300/per hour/ per group size max 6. additional charge for a larger group
Working towards de-framing some cognitively led presentations; of how we might have been conditioned through perhaps a more colonial lens as colonization may tend to reach into the very psychosomatic structure of those colonized. If we are embodying the material we may have to embody this notion too - providing more time for folks to rest, digest, and process the material individually or in groups. This offering is to those interested in this invitation as we work towards embodying collective change, systemically.
Clinical Supervision
RATES:
Individual: $150
Group: $85
Now offering clinical supervision services tailored for members of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario and the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers.
The main goals of this supervision will be as follows:
Case Presentation and Safe, Effective Use of Self
Deconstructing power dynamics and evolving the role of therapists, clinicians and leadership teams, through safe and effective use of self. Working with stigmatization and creating environments that do not mirror trauma in our communities, exploring historical trauma and systemic impact on our bodies.
Integrating this into our practice delivery, ensuring communication and advocacy that works towards systemic change as we learn how to observe and hold spaces from a trauma responsive lens within the communities we serve.
Educating therapists/clinicians with tools and decision-making skills based on our trauma responsive model to recognize the level of risk and apply the most appropriate techniques and interventions.