workplace learning
in-house workshops and learning and change programs:
interactive, evidence-informed learning for behavioural and cultural shift
Renée is a trauma-informed practice and somatics practitioner, bringing years of experience as an educator and learning designer to every workshop. Sessions are evidence-informed, grounded in adult learning theory, interactive and built on honest conversation - designed so what people learn actually changes how they work.
Misty
Renée instantly made me feel welcomed into the space with her warm and inviting energy.
The content was well put together and flowed in a way that was easy to absorb and I will weave this knowledge into my teaching.
Diana
Easy to understand, very engaging and informative.
Renée is a skilful facilitator and educator. Warm, inclusive, funny, grounded, approachable, respectful and a kind human being.
Her passion for trauma informed approach in settings beyond yoga practice is inspiring and much needed.
David
This was the most engaging reframing of mental health and trauma and what that looks like in the workplace that I've attended.
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Renée is a superb facilitator who is equally at home facilitating strategic conversations in C-level groups and boards as in a yoga studio.
tailored workshops & learning strategy
Trauma-informed leadership and practice, and psychosocial safety are not a generic checklist. We work with teams to build capability through learning designed around your objectives, your people, your challenges and the way you already work.
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Every workshop can be delivered at the length that suits your needs:
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half-day sessions work as an introduction to a topic.
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full-day and two-day workshops are the formats we run most often, with enough time to move from understanding into practice.
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multi-day and longer programs allow for deeper integration.
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any of these can also form part of a larger custom learning program built across several sessions.
Each workshop is designed for where you are now, and can be run in any way that suits - as an intensive in a retreat or wellbeing setting, alongside accessible corporate yoga and somatic, or as a series of shorter virtual sessions.
Jump to workshops designed for mental health professionals, counsellors & psych practitioners
Jump to workshops designed for trauma-informed practice and care teams
e.g. Justice, Mental Health, Disability, CYF, Education, Social Work etc.
Jump to workshops focused on psychosocial safety through a evidence-informed lens - in support teams, organisational system design and leadership
For practitioners and mental health professionals who work directly with people affected by trauma. These sessions include a focus on the soma, or body, where trauma is experienced and where much recovery/integration happens.
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Sessions are suitable for psychology clinics, mental health providers and trauma-informed practitioners in the education, social work, justice, health and community spaces. Whether you work with a clear framework or your team comes from different trauma-informed practice disciplines or body-understanding, these sessions are flexible and adaptable for a range of groups.
trauma-informed practice + the somatic lens: for practitioners and mental health professionals
workshop: trauma-informed practice in the body
An exploration of how trauma and chronic stress are experienced in the body and nervous system, and the connection between the body, brain and our relationships with others. Practitioners work with the Window of Tolerance and build the interoceptive awareness that underpins safer, more attuned practice.
The session is grounded in current evidence and designed so that what you learn integrates into your own clinical or practice context.
workshop: choice & decision-making, somatically
An examination of the neuroscience of choice in trauma and recovery, and how the capacity to make decisions is diminished by stress responses and rebuilt through the body.
Practitioners learn practical strategies for increasing choice-making capacity in the people they work with, using somatic awareness as the route back to agency.
workshop: felt-safety in trauma-informed supervision & development
For practitioners who supervise, mentor or develop others, this session brings trauma-informed principles into the supervisory relationship itself. We look at how power, safety and attunement shape supervision, and how to sustain the development and wellbeing of practitioners working in demanding and often vicariously traumatising environments.
custom workshops
Developed in greater depth and shaped to your team and the people you work with - includes deep dives on topics like dissociation, stress responses, fawning, safety, power and creating safety for lived experience perspectives.
Participants at a recent workshop reported:
- 57% increase in confidence offering choice and agency, and a
- 31% increase in confidence navigating physical touch and consent
as a result of their workshop attendance
For leaders, Boards and corporate teams in sectors that deliver trauma-informed or person-centred practices. Your work supports that practice through leadership and systems & policy design rather than direct care - and trauma-informed practice lives or fails with your critical support for the frontline teams.
These sessions extend trauma-informed principles from the frontline into how you lead people and design the policies, practices and systems the teams work in.
beyond the frontline: trauma-informed practice in leadership & systems
workshop: an introduction to trauma-informed thinking
Your frontline teams are already delivering trauma-informed practice and care. This workshop is designed for leaders and support teams that need to understand how they support that work from the unique lens of their own role and scope of practice. We examine how the same principles apply to your specific role, and broader - organisational leadership and the systems and policies your organisation runs on.
We look at where most trauma-informed models stop short, leaving organisational leadership and system design untouched, and what it takes to close that gap in your context.
workshop: trauma-informed HR
Apply trauma-informed principles to the full employee experience, across recruitment and onboarding, performance and development, and the policies that shape people's working lives (and are critical to their psychosocial safety and performance).
We examine how routine HR processes can either support people or inadvertently cause them harm, and how to redesign them so the systems meant to protect and develop people do exactly that.
workshop: trauma-informed safety & risk
Brings a trauma-informed lens to safety and risk, including the psychosocial hazards organisations are now legally required to manage. We look at how trauma and chronic stress present as risk in the workplace, and how safety and risk teams can identify and respond to psychosocial harm in ways that genuinely protect people rather than only meeting compliance.
workshop: trauma-informed leadership & transformational change
Equips leaders and change professionals to understand how trauma and chronic stress shape behaviour, performance and workplace culture, and to lead in ways that build psychological safety and trust.
The session is tailored to the level of leadership in the room, from frontline leaders managing day-to-day teams, to senior leaders setting strategy, through to Board members responsible for governance and oversight.
custom workshops
Built around the team or the work in front of you, whether that is another corporate function, a technological rollout (hello AI!), a leadership group, or a particular project or transformational change your organisation is moving through. Trauma-informed yoga and somatics can be included as an optional experiential element in any custom workshop.
Participants at a recent workshop rated:
- 88% as its direct relevance to their work/majority of tasks/capability, and
- 96% in terms of depth on how trauma and chronic stress impact engagement and participation.
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
