Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness Practitioner Certification

Trauma Informed Practitioner Certification – Part One 

CPD

This trauma sensitive mindfulness practitioner training course has been developed with mindfulness teachers in mind but would be equally valuable for any talking therapists, yoga teacher or indeed anyone working and practicing in a teaching, caring or healthcare role.

This day is part one of a two part training course. The course has been developed so each day (part 1 and 2) can also be stand alone courses in their own right and there is no obligation to attend both days. You are also welcome to attend part two first, if that works best for you. 

A direct quote from Nick Cooke Mindfulness Now course creator – “When I first developed the Mindfulness Now Programme at my clinic in Birmingham back in 2006, I soon recognised the need to steer people towards a mindful practise that creates healing and away from potential re-traumatising. Being a trauma survivor myself, I was well aware of the need to be highly cautious and sensitive when it came to mindful teaching and practicing”.

Our training course delves even deeper into recognising and understanding trauma and learning how we as practitioners can respond in a  skilful way. Our overall aim is to help prevent re-traumatisation as best we can within our work as teachers and therapists.

We don’t want to create any fear around trauma but instead leave practitioners confident that they can successfully help participants and clients to better cope with  traumatic stress within their personal mindfulness practise and to steer them towards a place that ultimately feel safer for them.

To be clear, this course is not meant as a ‘trauma healing course’, instead this course has been developed to provide practical resources to help practitioners to effectively teach in the safest way possible and to ultimately empower whomever they work with.

Our course includes: learning about trauma and understanding how trauma can effect our minds and bodies. Throughout the training we will be exporing how we can deliver mindfulness teaching in a safer more compassionate way, using our optimal zone of arousal, adopting trauma sensitive language – NIA, creating our own trauma ‘shields’ and considering creatively how else we can best look after the safety of our particpants. We will look at ways to remain as inclusive as possible and at the same time as safe and as aware as we can be of the varying needs of our participants. 

This CPD is being delivered by experienced trauma informed practitioners and mindfulness teacher trainer’s Rachel Mckenna and Madeleine Agnew.