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WhyWeLEAP Trauma-Informed Foundations Institute
A Train-the-Trainer Program in Facilitation & Implementation
The WhyWeLEAP Trauma-Informed Foundations Institute is a live train-the-trainer professional learning experience designed to prepare participants to understand, facilitate, and support trauma-informed implementation within schools and organizations. Participants will explore trauma-informed foundations, regulation, behavior, systems change, facilitation practices, and sustainable implementation strategies through an interactive, reflective, and application-based learning model.
Learning Outcomes
By the conclusion of the WhyWeLEAP Trauma-Informed Foundations Institute, participants will be able to:
Foundational Knowledge
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Explain the impact of trauma, toxic stress, and adversity on the brain, body, behavior, learning, and relationships.
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Differentiate between trauma-informed awareness and trauma-informed implementation.
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Describe the relationship between regulation, behavior, emotional safety, and learning.
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Recognize the role of resilience, protective factors, relationships, and environment in supporting healing and growth.
Practice & Implementation
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Identify trauma-informed strategies and structures that support predictability, connection, regulation, and belonging within schools and organizations.
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Apply a regulation-centered lens to behavior, discipline, engagement, and support practices.
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Utilize practical co-regulation and de-escalation approaches that support emotional safety and reduce escalation.
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Analyze barriers to implementation, including initiative fatigue, resistance, inconsistency, and systems misalignment.
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Develop sustainable implementation approaches rooted in realistic, measurable, and relationship-centered change.
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Facilitation & Leadership
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Demonstrate foundational facilitation skills necessary to support trauma-informed conversations and professional learning experiences.
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Utilize reflective questioning and strengths-based facilitation approaches to support adult learning and engagement.
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Recognize the importance of adult wellness, regulation, and parallel process in leading trauma-informed work.
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Facilitate conversations around trauma-informed practice in ways that reduce shame, increase reflection, and build collective ownership.
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Create an individualized action plan for supporting trauma-informed implementation within their own setting or organization.
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