Trauma Informed Training: Strengthening Resilience and Response-Flexibility

WORKSHOP DETAILS:

DATE: Sunday, Septmeber 13, 2026

TIME: 9:00AM am to 12:45PM PDT - Pacific Time (US and Canada).

**Please note this workshop is limited to 24 participants. If sold out please contact the organizer if you would like to be added to the waiting list.

ONLINE ( Using Zoom. Participants will be sent Zoom link prior to the workshop start time)

Additional workshop dates: Trauma-informed Practice Trainings

This is a foundational/introductory resilience-informed and trauma-informed training workshop, and open to all. It is suitable for anyone interested in understanding a growing body of resiliency and trauma-informed knowledge, particularly in the areas of: healing emotional/psychological triggers, societal polarization, and strengthening relational and somatic resiliency. No pre-requisite is required.

Certificate of completion will be provided.

Background:

Today, in the midst of distressing news events and societal polarization, it is more important than ever to gain an understanding of the components of psychological and emotional health, and resiliency.

This introductory workshop is grounded in research and focuses on understanding and providing practical, effective, tools for: strengthening emotional resilience, healing emotional triggers and limiting beliefs; understanding psychological projection; undertanding and strengthening the skill of relational attunement; and widening our "Window of Tolerance".

This workshop has been adapted from a training provided to mental health practitioners, to provide a foundational understanding of the same key concepts for non-therapists. Research shows that psycho-education is a critically key tool in healing emotional dysregulation, trauma, and building resilience. This workshop also helps to build skills to work more effectively with others within the conscious and unconscious layers of communication that occur in all relationships.

A practical, clear, step by step process for identifying and healing emotional triggers and trauma-based will also be provided.

Please note, if you are a mental health therapist, an advanced version of this workshop is available here: Healing Psychological Triggers and Trauma-Based Beliefs: Advanced

The workshop is grounded in research, and informed by the work of experts including: Dr. Allan Abbass, Dr. John Briere, Dr. Steve Cole, Tara Brach, Dr. Susan David, Dr. Ale Duarte, Dr. Diana Fosha, Dr, Linda Graham, Dr. Chris Germer, Prune Harris, Dr. James Hollis, Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad , Dr. Donald Hoffman, Dr. Rick Hanson, Diane Poole Heller, Thomas Hubl, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Byron Katie, Dr. Peter Levine, Nick Ortner, Dr. Susan Pinker, Dr. Stephen Porges, Dr. Isabelle Mansuey, D. Monica McGoldrick, Dr Resmaa Menakem, Nick Ortner, Dr. David Richo, Dr. Allan Schore, Dr. Daniel Siegel, Dr. Diana Schiller, Dr. Elizabeth Stanley, Dr. Michael Unger and Dr. Allan Wong.

This workshop is suited to both personal and professional interest, and may be of particular interest to mental health therapists wishin for a review or to strengthen foundational key concepts; or for parents, coaches, organizational leaders, educators, medical professionals, and healing practitioners.

*Please note - if you would like to attend this workshop but are unable to due to experiencing financial hardship, please contact the organizer.

Certificate of Completion will be provided.

In this workshop participants will learn:

• how to move from reactivity to proactive/relational responses.
• the new field of Interpersonal Neurobiology
• why we have emotional reactivity; the underpinnings
• an overview of implicit and explicit memories, how they are formed, and their role in the formation of trauma-based beliefs and emotional reactivity, and emotional triggers.
• a simple preocess to identify the limiting beliefs that underpin emotional reactivity and triggers.
• how limiting beliefs are formed and healed.
• what is meant by emotional, relational and somatic resilience
• why we hold on to beliefs that keep us suffering
• how to avoid re-triggering others
• how to trengthen the skill of “response-flexibility”. Participants learn a clear step by step process for healing and identifying emotional triggers (live participant/volunteer demonstration provided if wished).
• Understand the psychological concepts of projection, transference, and projective identification: how they invariably show up in relationships and underpin emotional triggers. How to identify and heal.
• effective /easy to implment resourcing and self regulation skills/tools. Undertand why these tools are effective and an overiew of the related research
• self care practices for preventing burnout, vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue
• the concepts of vicarious resilience, and post traumatic growth, and how they are fostered.

FACILITATOR:

Trish Walsh BA, MTC

Trish is a Master Therapeutic Counsellor, Instructor, teacher, and workshop facilitator, located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. From 2008 - 2016 Trish was the Executive Director of the InnerChange Foundation; a Canadian foundation with the mandate of increasing funding, education and awareness in the area of addiction and concurrent disorders. In Trish’s clinical practice her focus and training are in the area of Transpersonal Psychology, which integrates eastern philosophies within the framework of modern psychology.

Since 2016 Trish has focused on developing and facilitating strength-based trauma informed trainings for university students along with health and mental health professionals who working in the field, and who are interested in updating their knowledge and skills in the area of trauma healing. Trish also provides trauma-informed, and resilience-informed, trainings and workshops on healing intergenerational trauma, collective trauma, compassion fatigue, secondary trauma, and moral injury, to front line workers, school teachers/school administrators, organizations, and the general public.

In addition to Trish’s counselling practice, her work over the last 20 years has focused on knowledge translation: specifically, conveying research findings in medicine and mental health care to government decision makers, and to physicians, mental health professionals, allied health care providers, along with corporations, community groups and the general public. She has also consulted for several organizations to bring health information to their staff, stakeholders, and the general public. Trish has a particular passion for conveying research information in an engaging and easy to understand way, aiding decision makers in their funding and public policy decisions, and helping individuals to learn practical strategies for better health, happiness, and personal success.

Trish also provides training in Trauma-Informed Coaching and Transpersonal Coaching, for professional coaches.

For more info please see: www.trishwalsh.ca

Recent Testimonials:

Hi Trish – I'm echoing Cindy’s comments below – especially the one around setting us up for the rest of our retreat – I recognized triggers in myself I wouldn’t have otherwise. It was also nice to meet you in person. We’re hopeful we get to work with you again! THANKS! - Megan Begley | Chief Operating Officer, SafeSport Officer, Nordiq Canada https://nordiqcanada.ca/

"Your presentation was amazing and we’ve had nothing but positive feedback from staff. It was the perfect workshop to have before our leadership course. The two workshops were very complimentary and having the information you presented going into the leadership course made the learnings easier to understand and more meaningful. Thank you for sending us all the resources, it will be shared with all of the attendees. Thanks again!"

"Trish presented her trauma-informed workshop at our staff retreat for professional and mental health development. This workshop is incredibly helpful, informative and relevant for everyone who wants to better understand themselves and those around them whether in a corporate or social setting. It dives into the biological and psychological reasons of why we react the way we do, and provides guidance on how to manage and change behaviours. I’ve done several different corporate personality and behavioural tool analysis, and none of them has been as insightful, or as useful, as this workshop both professionally and personally. Thanks again for a great workshop". - Cindy Chetley | High Performance Coordinator, Nordiq Canada https://nordiqcanada.ca

"The workshop is filled with very relevant material that can be used directly in your therapeutic practice. Trish's delivery style and notes makes the material very accessible and clear. I appreciate her warmth, compassion and passion for this work that puts the participants at ease and generates engaging conversations" - public training survey feedback

"Trish presented her trauma-informed workshop at our staff retreat for professional and mental health development. This workshop is incredibly helpful, informative and relevant for everyone who wants to better understand themselves and those around them whether in a corporate or social setting. It dives into the biological and psychological reasons of why we react the way we do, and provides guidance on how to manage and change behaviours. I’ve done several different corporate personality and behavioural tool analysis, and none of them have been as insightful, or as useful, as this workshop both professionally and personally. Thanks again for a great workshop". Cindy Chetley | High Performance Coordinator Nordiq Canada, Canmore, Alberta

"Your presentation was amazing and we’ve had nothing but positive feedback from staff. It was the perfect workshop to have before our DEI leadership course. The two workshops were very complimentary and having the information you presented going into the leadership course made the learnings easier to understand and more meaningful. Thank you for sending us all the resources, it will be shared with all of the attendees. Thanks again! "

Hi Trish, I’m just echoing Cindy’s comments above, especially the one around setting us up for the rest of our retreat – I recognized triggers in myself I wouldn’t have otherwise. It was also nice to meet you in person. We’re hopeful we get to work with you again! THANKS! - Megan Begley | Chief Operating Officer, SafeSport Officer Nordiq Canada, Canmore Alberta https://nordiqcanada.ca/

"Trish, thank you for your wonderful presentation on Trauma-Informed Care. The feedback received from many of the participants was very positive, with many people saying it was the highlight of the 3 day conference! We found it highly valuable". - BC Provincial Health Authority

"Trish's presentation to our group was not only informative but incredibly insightful. Her warm approach, well attuned and focused presence and wonderful sense of humor made for an excellent transformative learning experience for all." -Izumi Miki McGruer, BC Regional Vice President Advisor Solutions, Canada Life