Understanding Trauma:

Deepen your understanding of trauma, strengthen emotional resilience, and create a culture where people feel safe and supported, this workshop offers a powerful, accessible, and transformative learning experience.

What the Workshop Covers

This experiential training blends theory, creativity, and embodied learning. Participants explore:

• The Window of Tolerance and how stress, overwhelm, and shutdown affect thinking and behaviour

• Neuroscience of trauma — what happens in the brain and nervous system during threat

• Emotional flashbacks and how they differ from cognitive memories

• The autonomic nervous system and the physiology of safety

• Big T and small t trauma — understanding the full spectrum of impact

• Grounding and regulation techniques that support emotional stability

• Bottom‑up approaches to trauma that work with the body, not against it

• Compassion and mindfulness practices for resilience and self‑support

• Arts‑based reflective activities that deepen insight and integrate learning

This is not a clinical training — it is a reflective, accessible, and psychologically safe space for staff at all levels

Why Organisations Choose This Workshop

• Builds trauma‑aware cultures that support staff wellbeing

• Helps teams understand emotional responses — their own and others’

• Reduces reactivity and increases emotional regulation

• Strengthens communication, empathy, and psychological safety

• Supports leaders in responding to distress with clarity and compassion

• Offers practical tools staff can use immediately

• Creates space for reflection, creativity, and embodied learning

Who It’s For

This workshop is ideal for:

• Corporate teams

• Healthcare and mental health services

• Education settings

• Charities and community organisations

• Social care and frontline services

• Leadership teams wanting trauma‑informed cultures

No prior knowledge of trauma is required.

Please email me at westraypsychotherapy@gmail.com to find out more.