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Trauma-Informed Leadership 101: Foundations for Wellness at Work

A free, on-demand primer for leaders who want a clear starting point for trauma-informed leadership, organizational wellness, and culture change.

When stress stays high, teams can become reactive, disconnected, and exhausted. This training gives you shared language, foundational frameworks, and simple practices you can begin using with your team right away.

Free, approximately 60 minutes, for leaders in organizations that serve people.

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When stress stays high, it shows up in how the whole team works

Most leaders care deeply about their people. Yet even in caring organizations, culture can slowly become burned out, reactive, and disconnected.

It can look like a performance problem: missed deadlines, short tempers, people pulling back. Often it is a stress and culture problem underneath. More pressure or another reminder about self-care rarely fixes it.

Trauma-informed leadership gives you a practical way to understand what is happening beneath the surface and respond with more steadiness.

This is not a quick fix for burnout. It is a clear, grounded place to start.

A practical first layer of learning

Trauma-Informed Leadership 101 is a free on-demand webinar that introduces the foundations of trauma-informed, human-centered leadership.

It explains what trauma-informed means in practice, how chronic stress affects people and organizations, and how culture changes through shared language, commitments, and daily practices. It is educational. It is not therapy, and no personal disclosure is required.

Not sure where to begin? Take the free 2-minute Next Right Step quiz.

Designed for leaders who shape how people experience work

This training is for executives, directors, managers, supervisors, HR and culture leaders, and internal champions who want a shared foundation for trauma-informed leadership.

It is especially relevant for leaders in education, government, courts and justice, healthcare, human services, nonprofits, libraries, and other organizations that serve people.

You do not need any background in trauma-informed practice. You only need a willingness to look at how stress is shaping your team and to try something different.

Inside the training

In about 60 minutes, you will learn:

  • What trauma-informed means in practice, and what it is not

  • How trauma and chronic stress show up for individuals and across an organization

  • How culture shifts through shared knowledge, shared language, commitments, and daily practices

  • Foundations from SAMHSA, the Sanctuary Model, and NCTSN, translated into everyday agreements through the Chefalo Core 5

  • The difference between reacting and responding as a leader, with language that supports grounded leadership

  • The Chefalo implementation cycle: Engage, Embed, Embody, Evaluate

  • Simple tools and reflection questions, with optional resource downloads below the video

A clearer foundation for how you lead

One training will not change your culture. It can give you and your team a shared place to start.

Shared language

Talk about stress, safety, and trust in words your whole team can use.

What is happening underneath

Recognize when a performance issue may be a stress or culture issue.

What to practice next

Leave with simple practices and reflection questions you can use right away.

Watch once. Then choose one practice to try.

Set aside about an hour when you will not be interrupted. As you watch, notice one moment in your own work where you tend to react rather than respond.

Then choose one simple practice or reflection question to try with your team this week. You do not need to change everything at once. Small, repeated practices are how shared language becomes daily practice.

If you can, watch with a colleague or your leadership team so you build the same foundation together.

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Understand what stress does to the brain at work

Trauma-Informed Leadership 101 gives you the foundation. Neuroscience of Trauma for Busy Leaders goes one layer deeper, into what happens in the brain and body under stress and what that means for how you lead.

It is an on-demand webinar for leaders who want to understand the why behind reactive moments and respond with more steadiness. $19.

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