Parenting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma and Adversity

You want to help your child heal from a traumatic experience, but you’re not sure how.  Responding to behavior is just a band-aid that doesn’t address the deeper, underlying issues. You know that there has to be a better way.  

In this course, you’ll learn about how trauma impacts brain development and how you can harness the power of narrative to help your child heal.  You’ll learn how to create a healing trauma narrative to promote resilience and post-traumatic growth. You’ll learn how to implement Trauma Informed Parenting on a daily basis to help support your child in moving through their own healing process.

The Trauma Informed Parenting course is made up of eight modules, each consisting of three individual lessons.  Course materials include a mix of videos, reading assignments, and worksheets.  Don’t be intimidated – this is not graded and there is nothing to turn in! Once you purchase the course, you will have lifetime access to the course materials, including all future updates. You’ll also be invited to join our exclusive Trauma Informed Parenting Facebook group where you can ask questions and share information with other trauma informed parents.

Module 1: Getting Started 

This module welcomes you to the course! You’ll learn about what to expect, take a look at the course syllabus, and join the private Trauma Informed Parenting Facebook group for support as you move through the modules.  You’ll take a look at where you are now and set goals for your time in the course to make sure that you can apply the information to your own life in a meaningful way.

Module 2: Adverse Childhood Experiences 

In this module, you’ll learn all about the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) study and how it applies to your own life, as a parent, and how it applies for your child.  You’re learn about what the ACES study means and have the opportunity to journal and reflect on how this has had an influence on your own life.

Module 3: The Impact of Trauma on Brain Development 

If you want to respond to your child and others in a truly trauma-informed way, you have to understand how adversity in childhood impacts the development of the brain.  After completing this module, you will understand the basics of early brain development and some significant ways that trauma impacts brain development. You will practice linking your child’s behavior to trauma and uncover triggers for challenging behaviors.

Module 4: Resilience 

Understanding all of the science and theory of adversity is super important, but let’s be real, it doesn’t do any good if you don’t know how to apply that science and theory to your own life.  In this module, you will learn about neuroplasticity, how to help the brain change, and how to help your child build resilience by strengthening emotional regulation.

Module 5: Healing

Breathe a deep sigh of relief, module 5 is where the work of healing truly begins.  In this module, you’ll learn how to harness the power of story to help your child heal.  You’ll learn about implicit memory and figure out how those hidden memories locked away in your child’s amygdala continue to impact their behavior every day.  Finally, you’ll start to sketch the skeleton outline of your child’s healing narrative by identifying emotional anchor points in their life.

Module 6: Creating a Trauma Narrative 

In module 6, all of the works begins to come together as your child’s trauma narrative takes shape.  This is the place where you write the story that will help you walk the sacred path of helping your child heal and move forward with intention.  It’s hard work and your child is so incredibly lucky to have a parent who is so invented in facilitating the healing process.

Module 7: Trauma Informed Parenting 

You’ve created your child’s healing narrative and now it’s time to talk about how to use the narrative and how to identify and respond to challenging behaviors through the lens of the Trauma Informed Parenting Guidelines.

Module 8: Wrapping Up 

This is the time for me to remind you that you can’t give what you don’t have and that self-care is an act of service.  You have to take care of yourself in order to be able to take care of anyone else.  Expect a little gushing from me as I thank you for allowing me to be a part of your sacred journey.  So much respect, my friend.

Ready to start helping your child heal?  Congratulations! Working through this course takes courage and commitment. Once you have made the decision to enroll in the course, you and your child can begin to move forward together on an intentional journey of healing and growth.  

The total value of the course materials is approximately $2500, but the changes you will be able to make after applying the course materials to your life will be truly priceless. Remember, once you purchase the course, you will have lifetime access to all materials, including updates.