workplace learning: psychosocial safety
For leaders in government, private and not-for-profit organisations where trauma-informed practice is not the core business, but psychosocial safety, culture and values are.
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Your starting point might be the legislated psychosocial safety duty, or a gap between the values you state and what people actually experience at work. These sessions translate trauma-informed thinking into practical leadership, across psychosocial safety, culture change, HR and how organisations move through change without consuming the people inside it.
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Sessions suit leadership groups, HR and people teams, health and safety teams, and organisations running staff retreats or multi-day programs.
psychosocial safety: trauma-informed leadership in every workplace
workshop: psychosocial safety reframed with trauma-informed practice
You already work with a focus on psychosocial safety. What is less understood is how its created and sustained within the body, within relationships and systems.
This session offers a more effective approach, grounded in how people experience a felt sense of safety in the body, and introduces the trauma-informed principles and somatic awareness that make psychosocial safety something people feel day to day rather than a process to be managed.
workshop: people development reframed with trauma-informed practice
How well people learn, take feedback and change the way they work is shaped by how safe they feel while doing it. Trauma-informed practice brings precision to that, drawing on how stress and safety shape the nervous system to explain why some development sticks and some does not. We better understand how trauma, big life experiences and chronic stress impact the body-brain connection and how we relate to, and work with, each other.
This session applies that understanding to the design of learning, capability building and the everyday work of people and culture teams, so what you invest in people has a better chance of translating into capability.
workshop: transformational change reframed with trauma-informed practice
Every transformation, whether a restructure, a merger or a new technology platform, asks people to give up certainty and control, which the nervous system can read as a threat. Even well-designed change loses ground when that human response is left unmanaged, showing up as fear, fatigue and disengagement.
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Trauma-informed practice helps us understand how people respond to uncertainty and loss, and what the evidence says supports them to stay engaged as the work changes around them. This session brings that understanding, alongside systems thinking, to how change is designed and led, so transformation has a better chance of landing (without costing you the people you need to deliver it).
workshop: leadership reframed with trauma-informed practice
How a leader operates affects the people closest to them, and the decisions and systems they oversee affect everyone within their reach. Trauma-informed and somatic practice brings an understanding of how stress and safety work in the body and in our relationships, which leaders can apply both to themselves and to the conditions they shape around them.
This session treats leadership as the work of building psychologically safer conditions across their scope of influence, grounded in how they manage their own body and brain so they show up as they intend.
Participants at a recent workshop reported:
- 88% increase in clarity of understanding of how to practically contribute to psychosocial safety, and a
- 95% said they felt more capable of noticing and understanding their own nervous system when working
