Trauma-Informed Leadership: Core Practices

Awareness is the beginning; practice is where it lives. Core Practices moves from understanding the foundations of trauma-informed leadership to leading in ways that account for it, building the skills to hold difficult conversations, respond to distress and disclosure, and create teams where people feel genuinely safe contributing. We recommend completing Foundations of Trauma-Informed Leadership as a prerequisite for this course. Central to the course is your own nervous system: you can't create calm you don't have. We work with regulation as a leadership skill — how your state shapes the room, and how to stay grounded under pressure — then turn to the interpersonal skills that make trauma-informed principles part of everyday leadership. This course includes six modules, roughly five hours, designed to be completed at your own pace. Each module includes video with Dr. Robyn Short, a written lesson, a five-question quiz, and two written reflections reviewed by a facilitator. Four modules ask you to script a real conversation in your own words. Who this course is for Leaders, managers, and HR professionals ready to put trauma-informed principles into practice. Foundations of Trauma-Informed Leadership — or an equivalent understanding — is recommended, but not required. Certificate criteria All six module quizzes passed at 80% or higher, and all twelve reflections submitted. Worksheets are for your own use. Reflection submission unlocks the next module immediately; facilitator feedback arrives separately and is required before the certificate is issued.