Culture Of Care
Certified Trauma-Informed Training
A six-month training in nervous system literacy, ethical power & embodied leadership.
Culture of Care - A Different Standard of Trauma-Informed Practice
Culture of Care is a certified training for facilitators, coaches, practitioners, and leaders who want to work with trauma and nervous systems with care, clarity, and responsibility.
It takes a holistic approach to trauma-informed practice, beginning with a simple but often overlooked truth: you and your nervous system are already shaping every space you hold.
This work is grounded in nervous system science, somatic awareness, and ethical responsibility. The focus is on how you arrive — in your body, in your capacity, and in the way you relate to others over time. From this foundation, you learn how to respond to what’s happening in the room with discernment, rather than habit or urgency.
Care is approached as something lived and relational. Ethics are explored through real situations and felt experience. Regulation is cultivated within yourself, so the responses you offer others are paced, appropriate, and within scope — shaped by awareness rather than technique alone.
From embodied self-connection, everything else becomes possible. That is what this training is built on, and what allows care to be steady, responsive, and sustainable rather than situational.
Who This Training Is For
Culture of Care is for people who are already working with others — or preparing to — and who are willing to take responsibility for how they show up in that role.
It often resonates with facilitators, coaches, practitioners, and leaders who recognise that their presence, capacity, and way of relating shape the spaces they hold — and who want to respond to others with skill, care, and discernment rather than habit or urgency.
This training is suited for those who want to develop a clearer understanding of how nervous system states, power, and ethics influence what’s happening in the room — and how to make choices and responses that genuinely support safety and agency.
It’s for people who are curious about where habits of urgency, over-attunement, or self-suppression may still be shaping their responses — and who want to build the capacity to stay present and responsive when intensity arises.
Above all, it’s for practitioners who understand that connection to their own body matters. That being able to notice activation, settling, and limits in real time supports wiser responses — and is part of ethical practice.
Personal development will naturally happen inside this training. The orientation, however, remains professional and relational, focused on how care is embodied, applied, and sustained in real work with real people.
Culture of Care may not be the right fit for those seeking scripted interventions, quick fixes, or approaches that prioritise doing something over sensing what’s actually needed.
It’s not designed as emergency trauma care or crisis response training, and it doesn’t focus on applying techniques without consideration of context, capacity, or consent.
This work asks for reflection, responsibility, and a willingness to develop discernment over time. If you’re looking for fast certification, formulaic methods, or technique-led solutions without an embodied foundation, this training is unlikely to be a good match.
Fit matters here — for the integrity of the work, the group, and the people being supported.
Who This Training Is Not For
The Foundation of This Work
Culture of Care begins with the nervous system — yours.
Before working with others, before holding groups, before meeting moments of intensity in the room, this training returns to something simple and foundational: your relationship with your own body.
The opening phase invites you into nervous system science as something lived rather than abstract. You’ll learn to recognise your own nervous system states, to notice subtle and significant shifts as they happen, and to develop interoceptive awareness — the felt sense that lets you know what’s actually occurring inside you, moment by moment.
From there, attention turns to how your nervous system shapes the spaces you hold. You’ll explore how state influences what you notice, what you respond to, and how you respond in real situations — particularly when intensity, activation, or uncertainty arises in the room.
Alongside this awareness, you’ll learn ways of responding that are grounded in regulation, ethical clarity, and respect for scope. The emphasis is not on fixing or managing others, but on making choices — in pacing, language, and action — that support orientation, agency, and steadiness.
Facilitator self-awareness and somatic literacy aren’t an addition to this work.
They’re what everything else rests on.
When you have access to your own body, nervous system knowledge becomes lived. Care becomes grounded rather than performative, and responsibility can be held without urgency or collapse.
This work exists so the spaces you hold don’t quietly repeat what people are coming to heal — but offer something steadier, more honest, and capable of supporting real change.
“This training helped me sense and respond to what’s actually happening in the room.”
I’m Chris, a men’s coach and group facilitator.
This training has been incredibly supportive in helping me see where I’d been holding myself back from creating safer spaces — not through lack of care, but through not fully sensing what was happening in real time.
Through the work, I learned how to see, sense, feel, track, and respond to the dynamics alive in a group — the emotions, energies, and subtle shifts — as well as what’s happening on an individual level. Just as importantly, I developed more awareness of where I am involved, and how being attuned to myself allows me to meet the group more clearly.
Being held in this work over time made a real difference. It supported me to recognise the wounds I still need to navigate with care, to understand who I can and can’t work with, and to bring that awareness responsibly into the spaces I hold.
The training deepened my understanding of nervous systems, power dynamics, ethics, and how these show up in facilitation. I feel more resourced, more discerning, and better able to meet what’s actually here — rather than trying to manage or control the process.
— Chris, Men’s Coach & Group Facilitator
How the Training is Held
Culture of Care is held as a six-month container with attention to pace, rhythm, and capacity. The learning is designed to land gradually, with space for integration, rather than being rushed or front-loaded.
Each month unfolds with a steady cadence of contact, practice, and reflection. Live teaching sessions are paired with integration-focused calls, where the material is digested through your own nervous system and the reality of your work. These spaces invite questions to emerge in their own time and support clarity about how the learning translates into real situations.
Alongside the live sessions, you’ll be supported by a library of learning materials shared in different formats — audio, written, and experiential — to meet a range of learning styles and nervous system needs.
Throughout the training, attention is placed on capacity. Content is offered with room to pause, sense, and integrate, so the work can be understood from the inside and brought into your professional life with steadiness rather than strain or performance.
The structure is intentional and carefully held, supporting ethical learning and sustainable engagement — so what you learn becomes something you can actually live and apply with care.
How the Work Unfolds Over Six Months
The training moves through a series of interconnected strands, each one building on the last. Rather than progressing through a fixed curriculum, the work unfolds gradually, with space to integrate what’s emerging in your own nervous system and professional context.
These strands are woven throughout the six months, returning to core principles again and again so understanding can deepen through experience. The emphasis is not on getting through material, but on allowing the work to land — and to shape how you notice, choose, and respond in real situations.
What follows are the core areas of focus, held in relationship with one another and grounded in embodied learning.
Nervous System Literacy & Interoception
We begin by coming home to the body.
This strand supports you to develop a lived understanding of nervous system states — noticing activation, settling, and capacity as they arise in real time. Interoceptive awareness is cultivated as a professional skill: the ability to sense what’s actually happening inside you, rather than relying on interpretation or performance.
From this foundation, you learn how to support others to recognise their own state and to respond in ways that support orientation, choice, and steadiness — without overriding, rescuing, or taking responsibility for regulation that isn’t yours.
Facilitator Self-Care as Ethical Practice
Care for yourself is part of how you care for others.
Here, attention turns toward how your own system participates in the spaces you hold. You’ll learn to recognise the difference between care and over-giving, attunement and self-abandonment, and notice the moments when your nervous system quietly begins to lead the room.
Over time, this strand supports steadier boundaries and a reduction in burnout, depletion, and the subtle resentments that can build when responsibility isn’t held clearly. You practise staying present with others without absorbing what isn’t yours to carry.
Power, Influence & Responsibility
We look closely at how power actually moves in the room.
This strand explores how influence, role, and responsibility are lived in real interactions. The focus is on noticing when power is held clearly, when it becomes blurred, and how these dynamics shape safety, agency, and trust.
From this awareness, you learn to make more deliberate choices in how you speak, intervene, set boundaries, and structure space — so responsibility sits where it belongs and choice is genuinely supported.
The emphasis is on clarity, so people are not quietly shaped by dynamics that haven’t been named, examined, or held with care.
Embodied Ethics
Ethical practice becomes something you live.
In this strand, ethics are explored through real situations and felt experience. Consent is approached as relational and ongoing — something you sense, check, and return to as circumstances shift. Safeguarding, scope of practice, and repair are worked with as embodied capacities that inform how you respond, rather than policies to memorise.
You also develop referral literacy, learning to recognise when work is resourcing, when it’s stretching capacity, and when it’s time to pause, name limits, or support someone to move elsewhere. These choices are made from awareness rather than fear.
The emphasis is on steadiness and discernment, so ethical practice can be applied in real situations without strain, urgency, or self-doubt.
A Different Starting Point
Culture of Care begins from a different place than urgency or reaction.
Rather than centring quick responses or crisis-oriented techniques, this training focuses on how practitioners and facilitators arrive — in their bodies, in their nervous systems, and in the quality of presence they bring into a space over time.
The emphasis is on presence that informs action, discernment that guides response, and taking responsibility for how power and ethics are lived in real moments. When these foundations are in place, support doesn’t come from doing more — it comes from making clearer, steadier choices about what’s needed and what’s not.
As your own nervous system becomes more oriented, settled, and in relationship with itself, your capacity to meet others changes. Responses become clearer. Choices become steadier. Support arises through presence that can be felt, and actions that are appropriately timed and within scope.
This is where the work begins.
Trauma-Informed Certification & Assessment
Upon completion of the training, participants are eligible to receive the IHPM Trauma-Informed Practitioner Certification, recognised as a standard of excellence in nervous-system-led, ethically held practice.
Certification reflects integration rather than attendance. It’s about how the work has landed — in your nervous system, your understanding, and the way you show up in professional spaces.
Assessment is held as part of the learning process, not as a performance test. You’ll be supported throughout, with time to practise, reflect, and receive feedback as your understanding deepens.
The certification process includes:
embodied understanding of nervous system states and interoceptive awareness
awareness of how your own state shapes the spaces you hold
applied discernment around ethics, power, consent, and scope of practice
assessed practice sessions grounded in presence rather than technique
integration of the work into your existing facilitation or professional context
Certification here represents steadiness, responsibility, and lived understanding — not perfection. It signals that the work has been met with care and can be carried forward with integrity.
Why I Teach This Work
Trauma isn’t something we only meet in specialist or clinical spaces.
It lives in our culture, our systems, our families, and our bodies.
Some people arrive carrying developmental trauma. Others live with sexual trauma, complex PTSD, or the impacts of systemic and generational harm. Many don’t use the word trauma at all — and yet their nervous systems tell the story.
As someone holding space with others, trauma will be present.
The question is not if, but how it’s met.
My relationship with this work didn’t begin in a training room. It began in my own body, through lived experience with developmental and sexual trauma, and the long process of understanding how complex trauma shapes the nervous system.
That experience continues to inform how I work - its shaped my attention, pacing, and care.
Over time, my work has been informed by years of study, practice, and experience supporting others in individual and professional contexts. I’ve worked with people navigating a wide range of experiences, including developmental and relational trauma, sexual harm, and the impacts of systemic oppression.
What matters most to me, though, isn’t the framework.
It’s how the work is held.
I care deeply about creating spaces where people can meet intensity without being overwhelmed, and where responsibility sits clearly rather than being quietly absorbed. Spaces where nervous systems are respected, consent is lived, and care doesn’t come at the cost of the person offering it.
I teach this work because it asks something different of practitioners — not more effort, but more presence. Not perfection, but honesty. Not performance, but embodied responsibility.
This work is professional for me.
It’s also deeply personal.
And it’s something I hold with great care.
Practical Details at a Glance
Duration
Six-month professional training
Format
Live online training held within a carefully paced container, combining teaching, integration, and supported practice
Live Sessions
Two live sessions per month, each two hours in length
One teaching-focused session and one integration-focused session
Practice Pods
Participants are placed into small practice pods that meet regularly throughout the training. Pods provide a supported space to practise application, reflect on lived experience, and integrate learning into real professional contexts.
Pods are an essential part of the training and are held with clear guidance and oversight, supported by trained assistants.
Learning Materials
Short, focused learning resources shared throughout the training — including audio, written, and experiential content — designed to support different learning styles and allow deeper exploration at a self-paced rhythm
Time Commitment
Approximately 10–12 hours per month, including live sessions, pod practice, reflection, self-paced learning, and certification-related integration
Certification
Eligible for IHPM Trauma-Informed Practitioner Certification upon completion of training and assessment requirements
Who It’s For
Facilitators, coaches, practitioners, and leaders working with others in 1:1 or group contexts
Your Investment
Culture of Care is a six-month professional training held with depth, structure, and ongoing support. The investment reflects the time, contact, and careful holding woven throughout the container — including live teaching, integration spaces, supported practice, and certification guidance.
Full Investment
£3500
Payment Plan
6 monthly payments of £625
(Total £3,750)
Payment plans are offered to support steadiness and accessibility, so you can engage with the work in a way that honours your capacity over time.
An extended payment option may be available by request.
An Invitation
If something in this work resonates, you’re welcome to stay close.
You might already sense whether this training meets you at the right depth, or you may need a little more time to feel into it. Both are welcome here.
Joining the waitlist is simply a way to remain in contact — to receive details when enrolment opens and to continue listening to what’s true for you as the timing becomes clearer.
However you choose to engage, you’re invited to do so from your own pace, with care for your nervous system and respect for the responsibility this work asks us to hold.
“The training helped me attune to groups at a much deeper level.”
I’m Eliza, a transformational and leadership coach.
One of the things I was struggling with before the training was reading the room — not just what was being said, but what was actually happening beneath the surface in the group dynamic.
This training supported me to notice those subtleties and to meet the group where it truly was, rather than where I thought it should be. I gained practical ways of responding that felt grounded and ethical, and that allowed deeper transformation to unfold without forcing it.
The work has helped me show up to group processes with more integrity and coherence. I feel clearer in myself when I’m facilitating, and more trusting of how I meet what’s happening in the room.
— Eliza, Transformational & Leadership Coach
