Lived Experience Trauma-Informed Practice Training (CPD Accredited: ACCPH)

Our Trauma Informed Practice Training is packed with Lived Experience and Key Information from Mayameens extremely successful Accredited BeyondTrauma Recovery Programme, a psychoeducational programme that created her own modality and is now a Certification.

Mayameen will take you through a journey as a child sexual abuse survivor, to bring a real life perspective of being Trauma-Informed.

Training includes

1. A practical overview of PTSD, including:

• The four recognised symptom clusters.
• How trauma responses show up in day-to-day life and professional settings.
• Common emotional, behavioural, and physical reactions practitioners are likely to observe.
• The hidden presentations of PTSD
  
  2. Adverse Childhood Experiences A balanced look at ACEs:

• What ACEs measure and why they matter.
• Understanding the strengths and limitations of the ACE framework (e.g., its predictive power vs. its oversimplification).
• How childhood adversity impacts long-term health, behaviour, and relational patterns
  
  3. Brain Science of PTSD

• Helping participants “connect the dots”:
• How the brain and body respond under threat (fight, flight, freeze, fawn).
• The roles of the amygdala, hippocampus, and prefrontal cortex in trauma responses.
• How trauma disrupts memory, emotional regulation, and learning.

1. Key Principles & Components of a Trauma Informed Practice

• Grounding participants in TI foundations:
• Safety, trust, empowerment, collaboration, and cultural humility.
• Understanding power dynamics and reducing unintentional harm.
• Professional curiosity, reflective practice, and boundaries.
• Embedding trauma-informed approaches across policies, procedures, and everyday interactions.

1. Anger Management and Emotional Numbing

• Normalising survivor coping:
• Understanding anger as a protective response to threat, shame, and unmet needs.
• Recognising emotional numbing, dissociation, and internal shutdown.
• How these responses might present in behaviour, communication, and crisis moments.
• Practical strategies for supporting survivors compassionately without escalating distress.

1. Trauma Informed Lens

• Developing the mindset shift:
• Moving from “What’s wrong with them?” to “What happened to them?” and “What’s still happening?”.
• How staff can adjust expectations and communication styles.
• Using attunement, empathy, and emotional regulation as professional tools.

1. Trauma Informed Care in Practice

• Equipping professionals with real tools:
• How to build trust and psychological safety with survivors.
• Grounding strategies, containment techniques, and stabilisation skills.
• How to respond when a survivor becomes distressed or overwhelmed.
• Ethical considerations, boundaries, and vicarious trauma awareness.
• A resource pack of scripts, tools, and guidance for real-world application.

1. Interactive Learning with Case Scenarios

• Engaging and applied learning:
• Realistic cases reflecting diverse survivor experiences
• Group discussion, reflective questions, and problem-solving
• Identifying trauma responses, risks, needs, and appropriate interventions
• Practising the trauma-informed lens in live-action examples

A great opportunity to upskill or to provide significant opportunities for Continual Professional Development (CPD).

Ideal For all Local Authorities, Professionals and Organisations.

This Training is also suitable for Schools and Individuals, wanting to create and implement Trauma Informed Practices.

6 CPD Credits with Certification issued upon completion, awarded by ACCPH (Accredited Coaches, Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Hypnotherapists).

Training resource pack included to help you support and work with individuals from any form of Trauma.