Foundations of Trauma-Informed Facilitation

Create Safer Rooms. Regulate in Real Time. Lead With Integrity. Facilitate Ethically.

A one-day training for facilitators, coaches, space holders and emerging leaders who want to ethically facilitate transformation without re-traumatising people.

• Do you facilitate group and 1:1 experiences where there is potential risk of clients being activated, dissociated or shut down?
• Would you like to know exactly what to do when someone gets triggered and goes into a trauma response?
• Do you want to know how to lead your clients through transformation in a way that honours the capacity of their nervous system?
• Would you like to learn specific somatic practices and playful games that will support your clients to widen their nervous system capacity so they can experience deeper learning and are able to stay fully present and engaged?

If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, then this training is designed for you...

This one day immersion is a practical, experiential training designed to give you the foundational skills to facilitate ethically, responsibly, and confidently.

This is where you learn how to design and lead spaces in a way that minimises the risk of retraumatisation.

You will learn:

• How trauma responses can show up in clients and recognising the different bodily signs of flight, fawn, freeze, fight and attachment-cry-for help responses
• How to work with these different responses in real time using specific nervous system tools and somatic practices
• How to spot the signs of dysregulation in the room early and what practices and games you can do when you notice the energy of the room or a participant shift.
• How to design exercises and workshops in a way that supports clients to feel resourced when they meet their capacity and to be able to come back to safety inside of themselves.
• How to communicate with clarity and consent, so that people have agency and freedom with their level of participation.
• Specific guidelines, frameworks, practices and language that increase depth without increasing harm and support participants back into regulation when they get wobbly or triggered.
• How to use play as a nervous system resource and a form of co-regulation throughout any event or 1:1 session.

If you facilitate spaces that include emotional depth, embodiment, intimacy, leadership, creativity, or any kind of transformation, offering trauma-informed transformational spaces is part of your ethical responsibility.

The 3 Pillars of Trauma-Informed Facilitation

We will cover these three pillars which will give you a practical foundation for leading rooms that feel safer, clearer, and more consensual.

Trauma-informed facilitation isn’t about avoiding intensity, it’s about resourcing, context, and agency so that we reduce the risk of re-traumatisation.

1) Resourcing

Resourcing is how you help people stay connected to enough safety in their body to stay present. It’s the tools, pacing, and room design that support regulation before, during, and after intensity.

This helps participants engage without getting overwhelmed or checking out, and you can still keep the room alive and connected without pushing people past capacity.

2) Context

Context is the orientation you give people before an experience: what’s about to happen, why you’re doing it, who's involved, what’s expected and how to take care of themselves or get support if something comes up. It’s “no surprises” facilitation.

This helps people feel prepared instead of blindsided, your exercises land more cleanly, people stay more resourced during challenge, and you get less freeze, fear, confusion, and shutdown in the room.

3) Agency

Agency is real choice in practice, not just “you can opt out” said once at the start. It’s participants experiencing: I have options. I can choose my pace. I can say no. I can modify. And it will be respected.

We do this so people don’t participate from pressure, fawn, or fear of “doing it wrong”, and you get more authentic engagement, cleaner consent and your room becomes more ethical, more connected, and more genuinely brave.

PLUS - Play as a Nervous System Regulation Practice

You’ll also learn how to use play as a powerful regulation tool. When facilitated in a trauma-informed way, play helps the nervous system move into the ventral vagal state which is where we experience safety, belonging, groundedness, possibility, vision and connection.

What you'll Walk Away With:

The workshop isn’t just theory, we will be taking you through specific practices and live role play group work, so that you get to practice and experience different ways of working with people when they get activated.

So you won’t just know trauma-informed theory, you will feel the difference in your body as a facilitator.

By the end of the day, you will:

✔ Understand trauma responses in both group and 1:1 settings

✔ Know what to do when someone goes into a specific trauma response

✔ Be able to design exercises and workshops that increase safety, depth and capacity

✔ Feel more confident leading transformational spaces

✔ Reduce the risk of re-traumatisation in your rooms

✔ Lead with stronger integrity and create deeper trust and safety with your participants and clients

Who This Is For:

• Coaches, facilitators and speakers leading any kind of 1:1 session or group
• Workshop leaders
• Somatic and embodiment practitioners
• Intimacy and sexuality educators
• Leadership trainers
• Community space holders
• Emerging facilitators who want to start correctly

If you work with humans in any form of growth, depth, or activation - this is relevant to you.

What’s Included:

• Full-day live training
• Practical frameworks you can implement immediately
• Experiential role plays
• Learning and experiencing somatic and nervous system practices
• Q & A time
• Play-based regulation games and fun!!
• Trauma-Informed Facilitation Skills and Frameworks PDFs
• Access to a 2hr online training with trauma therapist Anna Morrigan and EJ Love, so you can watch in your own time to freshen up your knowledge and skills.

About Your Facilitator (and why this matters to me)

Hi, I’m EJ Love and I’ve been facilitating workshops and guiding people through transformation in groups and one-on-one for over 15 years. And here’s the truth I don’t sugarcoat:

Up until five years ago, I was not trauma-informed. I didn’t have the language or the proper tools and if someone went into a trauma response in my space, I would not have known how to properly support them back into safety.

I also spent years in other people’s rooms, watching people freeze, shut down, leave themselves and become re-traumatised.

And in 2019, my own nervous system finally collapsed because I had spent years in spaces that kept taking me beyond my capacity, chasing that high-peak transformational hit, believing that intensity meant healing.

But what I actually needed was a slower kind of transformation, one that honoured my limits and built safety before depth.

That experience changed everything about the way I lead.

Especially because I work in spaces like sexuality, intimacy, embodiment, and expression and exploring this work does trigger people’s trauma and without knowing how to work with this properly it can harm, even when the intentions are beautiful.

In 2023, I collaborated and went into business partnership with Anna Morrigan, a trained trauma therapist and together, we began delivering trauma-informed conscious sexuality trainings, training practitioners to work ethically and safely with their clients.

Over the last three years, we’ve also brought this work to workshop leaders and facilitators, supporting them to be trauma-informed facilitators.

These trainings have been longer, deeper immersions and the feedback has been consistent:

“This should be mandatory.” “Everyone needs to know this.” “I wish I learned this before I started facilitating.” “This has changed how I facilitate forever.”

And that’s why I created this one-day. Because I want more people to have access to the foundations, not after a collapse, not after someone gets harmed, but now.

This training is also the foundational layer of my six-day facilitator training, where we go much deeper into somatics, nervous system work, play, intimacy, relating, shadow work and embodied leadership.

But if you want the essential trauma-informed framework you can implement immediately, this day will give you a strong, practical base that will change the way you facilitate forever... and your clients will thank you for it!