Trauma-Informed Leadership Training

From silence → to recognition → to sustainable wellbeing

When trauma enters the workplace — through an accident, sudden loss, or aggression — it does not only affect the individual employee, but also the entire team. Leaders and HR often find themselves without the language or tools to respond. The result: silence, distance, loss of trust, rising absenteeism, and wellbeing policies that fail to reach people.

This programme equips leaders, HR professionals, and prevention advisors with the knowledge, skills, and frameworks to make trauma speakable, to recognise it, and to translate it into sustainable growth.

Module 1: Making Trauma Speakable at Work

From silence to language and trust

• Recognisable situations: a serious accident, sudden loss, aggression.

• How does a victim experience this? (victim’s perspective, feelings and symptoms).

• The difference between trauma and burnout, and how they overlap.

• Practising language and responses: what to say — and what not to say.

• Prevention = recognition: why making trauma speakable is the first step toward reducing absenteeism.

👉 Effect for participants: Leaders and HR gain confidence in their role and learn how to offer concrete support — without being a therapist.

Module 2: The Five Phases of Post-Traumatic Growth (HR Lens)

From victim to growth

• Introduction to Dr. Edith Shiro’s Five Phases.

• Translating individual phases into HR and leadership practice.

• Case studies: how to recognise the phase an employee or team is in.

• Concrete HR interventions per phase: from Awareness → Transformation.

👉 Effect for participants: HR professionals and leaders receive a framework to connect aftercare with prevention and sustainable reintegration.

Module 3: The 8-Step Strategy for Sustainable Wellbeing

From isolated actions to policy

• Analysis: how to assess the current state of wellbeing and trauma response.

• Mission and values: embedding trauma into ESG and HR strategy.

• Policy and processes: translating insights into concrete measures.

• Training and leadership pipelines: from awareness to consistent behaviour.

• Monitoring and improvement: how to keep it alive and measure impact.

👉 Effect for participants: Organisations learn to structurally integrate trauma-informed leadership into policy and culture.

Full Training Programme

The modules can be taken separately, but together they form a 5-day Trauma-Informed Leadership training programme.

👉 Effect for organisations: A fully integrated framework that connects trauma with prevention, culture, ESG, and sustainable performance.

Why This Programme?

• For participants: more confidence, language, and tools to make trauma speak able and support recovery.

• For organisations: reduced absenteeism, higher productivity, stronger culture, and a wellbeing policy that truly lives.

• For society: contributing to healthier employees in healthier organisations.