TraumaWise Workplaces
For leaders who want people to thrive, not just survive
You care about your team. And you’ve seen what stress, turnover, and burnout cost the people you lead, and you.
TraumaWise Workplaces is for managers, HR and people leaders, nonprofit directors, team leads, and anyone shaping how work feels for others. If you’ve ever thought, “We can do better than this, and still get the work done,” you’re in the right place.
We can do better than this, and still get the work done.
What we believe about work
Three ideas sit underneath everything we do:
Felt-Safety
People do their best work when it’s safe to speak up, ask questions, and make mistakes.
Connection
Trust between people is what holds a team together when things get hard.
Co-Regulation
Leaders set the emotional weather. When you can stay steady, your team can too.
Burnout isn’t a personal weakness. It’s often a systems problem, and systems can change.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
Something for today
Listen
20 minutes
Creating Felt Safety: The Foundation of a Thriving Workplace with Wendy McMahan (TraumaWise Podcast, episode 2)
Try this at your next meeting
Open with one question everyone can answer in a word or two, such as “What’s one thing that would make this week a little lighter?” Then listen without fixing. It tells your team their experience matters before the agenda does.
Save the Date · The 2027 TraumaWise Workplace Summit
Five days of talks from leaders and practitioners on building workplaces where people can feel safe, stay connected, and do meaningful work without burning out. Free to attend during summit week.
Want to keep the talks? Replays are included with the Workplace ToolKit and the Expand Membership.
MAR
8-12
Would you like a heads-up?
We’ll email you on Monday, February 15, when registration opens. You’ll also get the TraumaWise Workplace newsletter, and you can unsubscribe anytime.
Want to go deeper?
If you’d like to practice these tools all year, with others who get it, the Equip Membership is where we do that together: a guided first month, a monthly live Q&A for your real questions, and the summit replays.
Bringing this to your whole organization?
TraumaWise offers training and consulting for teams and leaders.
Right now, it’s a quiet, welcoming place to connect with other leaders and to be the first to hear what’s coming. We’re building it together, and early members help shape what it becomes.