Become a Certified TraumaWise Facilitator

Please register here ($50) Would you like to see how it works?

FELT-SAFETY

You set up a space where people know what to expect, sharing is always a choice, and passing is always honored.

CONNECTION

You listen more than you talk, make room for every voice, and keep advice out of the room.

CO-REGULATION

You steady yourself first, so the group has calm to borrow.

Who it's for

Caregivers, educators, ministry leaders, workplace leaders, and neighbors who are ready to move out of learning and into action. This role is whole work on its own. You don't need any other TraumaWise role to do it.

What this role is not

Therapy, consulting, or professional training. If someone needs more than a circle can offer, you'll know how to help them find it. If you'd like to deliver training professionally, please take a look at the TraumaWise Trainer role.

1. Register and make your plan. You'll receive access to the training portal within 24 hours, starting with a simple checklist to help you carve out the time and energy.
2. Join a Wellness Circle as a participant. You can start right away. Experiencing a circle for six weeks is the best preparation for holding one.
3. Complete the training at your own pace. It begins with a trauma-informed foundation, then walks through each Wellness Circle session, coaching practice, and leading your first circle.
4. Become a Wellness Circle Facilitator. Sign a short attestation and book a check-in with your mentor for after your first circle. You're ready to lead. If you'd like to stop here, that's a complete and welcome place to stop.

5. Lead or co-lead a Wellness Circle. Bring what you learned into your own community.
6. Meet with your mentor. Reflect together on how it went. Certification is earned once.

1

Welcome + Start Here. Make your training plan, take your own Wellness Assessment, and choose the Wellness Circle you'll join.

2

Facilitating Trauma-Wise. Safety and choice, listening that connects, what to do when someone is activated, disclosures and referrals, and sustaining yourself. You'll finish with your own sustainability plan and a local resource list.

3

Wellness Circle Tutorials. A bridge lesson that applies the trauma-informed foundation to Wellness Circles, then each of the six sessions with notes for holding them well. Includes the Parent and Teen versions.

4

Practicing the Coaching. Hands-on practice with Motivational Interviewing, including a short recorded practice your mentor will review.

5

Leading Your First Circle. Gathering a circle, working with host organizations, consent, leading online, and adapting for your setting, whether that's a workplace, a school, a family, or a faith community.

Please take part without centering yourself. You're in the circle as a peer.

Please don't profit from what you facilitate. An honorarium from a host is a thank-you, and that's fine. An invoice changes the relationship, and that's the Trainer's role.

Please let the gathering carry its own costs. In a small group, everyone contributes what they decide is equitable. When an organization hosts, it covers materials, space, and personnel.

Please invite a co-facilitator when an organization brings you in, or when you hold power over the people in the room. It keeps the circle safe, and it leaves the organization able to keep circles going.

Please know where a circle stops. When someone needs more than a circle can give, refer them with care and follow the reporting requirements for your setting.

Please care for your own capacity. Use your sustainability plan and debrief with your mentor instead of carrying it alone.