Deep Dive Webinar: Trauma Informed Teaching Practice
This webinar introduces trauma‑informed teaching, focusing on creating safe, respectful and responsive learning environments. Join Tori Cooke in exploring trauma’s impact on engagement, managing lived experience, and learn practical strategies for teaching sensitive content with care and confidence to support engagement, hope and meaningful participation.
Description
This 1.5-hour webinar provides an introduction to trauma-informed teaching practice, with a focus on creating learning environments that are safe, respectful, and responsive when engaging with challenging or sensitive material. It explores how trauma can affect a learner’s capacity to participate, reflect, and stay engaged, and considers the role of the educator in shaping a learning experience that is grounded in emotional safety, clarity, and connection.
The webinar also examines the importance of managing lived experience in the room, recognising that learners may bring personal, professional, and community-based experiences that influence how they receive and respond to content. Participants will consider practical ways to introduce difficult topics with care, provide information ethically and thoughtfully, and navigate moments of discomfort, resistance, or philosophical difference without escalating shame or defensiveness. The session supports educators to hold space for challenge and reflection while maintaining accountability to the purpose and values of the learning.
Alongside these foundations, the webinar highlights teaching approaches that move beyond content delivery alone to foster inspiration, motivation, and meaningful engagement. Participants will reflect on how trauma-informed practice can support not only safety, but also curiosity, hope, and transformative learning. The session is designed to strengthen confidence in delivering complex material in ways that support learner well-being while encouraging participation, insight, and growth.
Topics Covered
- Foundations of trauma-informed teaching practice
- Understanding the impact of trauma on learning, engagement, and participation
- Managing lived experience in learning environments
- Introducing difficult or sensitive content safely and ethically
- Creating emotionally safe, respectful, and structured learning spaces
- Navigating resistance to content and philosophical differences
- Responding to defensiveness or discomfort without escalating shame
- Teaching approaches that foster inspiration, hope and critical reflection
Learning Outcomes
- A stronger understanding of trauma-informed teaching practice
- Increased confidence in delivering sensitive or challenging content safely
- Greater capacity to recognise and respond to lived experience in learning environments
- Practical strategies for introducing difficult topics with care and clarity
- Skills in navigating resistance, discomfort, and philosophical difference constructively
- Approaches that support reflection, inspiration, motivation, and meaningful engagement in learning
Audience
- Trainers & Assessors
- Practitioners
- Team Leaders
- Supervisors
- New Managers
Session includes
- Certificate of Attendance
- Session Recording