Course outline and timeline

Week One, Orientation Meeting

Please note, that if you cannot attend the orientation meeting you cannot take the workshop series

60-minute orientation meeting covering:

  • Intros - you, me and the course!

  • What to expect and ideas on how to support yourself during the classes and the course itself

  • What you’ll need - practical tools

  • Safety meeting

    • Community expectations - how to keep yourself and your community safe

    • Communication guidelines

    • Access needs

  • Course and tool outline

  • Q&A


Week Two, Regulation Practices & Brain Science 

  • Co-regulation practice

  • Safety meeting refresher

  • Co-regulation practice

  • Learning:

    • Brain ScienceLITE

    • Co-regulation

    • Self-regulation

    • Techniques for both

  • Q&A


Week Three, ScienceLITE

  • Self-regulation practice

  • Safety meeting refresher

  • Regulation practice

  • Learning:

    • Nervous-system

    • Brain anatomy

    • How the brain impacts our SNS system

    • Polyvagal theory

    • Window of tolerance

  • Q&A

Week Four, Types of trauma, the cross-sections of trauma, privilege and marginalization

  • Self-regulation practice

  • Check-in

  • Safety meeting refresher

  • Self-regulation practice

  • Learning

    • Types of trauma

    • Coregulation practice

    • Where we lie in proximity to privilege and systemic marginalization

    • Co-regulation practice

    • Why understanding these truths is important as a wellness practitioner

  • Q&A

Week Five, Integration week

  • Take this week off, enjoy time with folks, plants and animals you love

Week Six, Understanding financial trauma, its impacts and recovery

  • Self-regulation practice

  • Check-in

  • Safety meeting refresher

  • Self-regulation practice

  • Learning

    • What is financial trauma?

    • How does it impact us?

    • The science (and reality) of scarcity and a scarcity mindset

    • Why financial literacy is important but meaningless without historical context

    • Financial disorders

    • Supporting recovery

    • Regulation techniques for financial and wellness professionals and their clients

  • Q&A

Week Seven, Choice-based language and ongoing consent

Welcome back!

  • Self-regulation practice

  • Safety meeting refresher

  • Regulation practice

  • Learning

  • Choice-based language techniques

  • Ongoing consent

  • Q&A

Week Eight, Scope of Practice, Part One

  • Self-regulation practice

  • Safety meeting refresher

  • Regulation practice

  • Learning

    • Understanding your own scope of practice

      • Education

      • Experience

      • Practice

    • Identifying and acknowledging your physical, mental and emotional capacity

      • Working within those boundaries while growing your edges

  • Q&A

Week Nine, Scope of Practice, Part Two

Self-regulation practice

  • Safety meeting refresher

  • Regulation practice

  • Learning

    • Professional boundaries

      • What are they?

      • When to set them

      • How to set them

  • Regulation practice

    • How to say no when you can’t treat someone for whatever reason

    • How to repair

    • How to refer out when we take our clients too far or hit our limit

  • Q&A

Week Ten, Wrapping up

  • Self-regulation practice

  • Safety meeting refresher

  • Closing the circle:

    • Reflections

    • A clear path forward: what are your next steps in terms of education and deepening this learning?

  • Regulation practice

  • Open share