PHSA - PC - PHS - Trauma Informed Practice for Leaders: The Basics

This workshop offers leaders a foundational understanding of trauma informed practice (TIP), providing a framework to recognize and respond effectively. Learn how trauma-informed principles and approaches can enhance psychological safety for everyone in the workplace. Through interactive discussions participants will explore ways to incorporate trauma-informed strategies into their leadership practices, fostering a supportive and resilient work environment.

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

1. Understand how trauma, including systemic and intergenerational trauma, shapes employee behaviour, team dynamics, and workplace culture.
2. Recognize common signs and responses to trauma, such as fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and flop.
3. Apply core trauma informed principles of safety, trust, choice, collaboration, and agency to everyday leadership interactions.
4. Lead in ways that reduce harm by using a culturally safe, curious, and strengths based lens.
5. Identify opportunities to strengthen trauma informed leadership skills across individual, team, and organizational levels.

This session is Module 2 of the Integrating Psychological Health & Safety: Leadership Series, a five-part learning experience designed to build knowledge and practical leadership skills to foster psychologically healthy and safe workplaces. To receive a curriculum certificate, please enroll in the full series: https://learninghub.phsa.ca/Courses/34578/integrating-psychological-health-safety-leadership-series