Heart Over Harm: Privilege & Racial Trauma Awareness in Client & Coaching Practice
As coaches and helping professionals we have a responsibility to prevent prejudice and racial harm and trauma. Without this practitioner training, you aren't equipped to do so.
Race-based trauma is real and its impacts and symptoms have unalike and alike markers when compared with non-race-based trauma.
Maybe your client has racial trauma which has similarities to other mental health markers. Their 'blocks' might currently be beyond your skills, experience and knowledge. Their 'blocks' might stem from the reality that we live in a capitalistic society with oppressive systems that each of us navigates in different ways depending upon our identities, lived experiences, privilege and access.
The key is knowing the difference (as well as the similarities), and having the knowledge, skills and communication abilities to identify it and support your clients needs in the best possible way.
This practical training focuses on the implementation of harm prevention and racial trauma awareness principles, acknowledgement of privilege, biases, behaviours and stereotypes that may occur while coaching racialised (BBIMP - Black, Brown, Indigenous Melanated People - a phrase coined by Louiza Doran to decentre whiteness regarding racialised identities) clients and it offers benefits to racialised coaches and helping professionals too.
This program explores the practical skills to create a racial trauma-aware, trauma-informed, anti-oppressive and safer space to work and to understand racial trauma in the people you serve.
You will:
Race-based trauma is real and its impacts and symptoms have unalike and alike markers when compared with non-race-based trauma.
Maybe your client has racial trauma which has similarities to other mental health markers. Their 'blocks' might currently be beyond your skills, experience and knowledge. Their 'blocks' might stem from the reality that we live in a capitalistic society with oppressive systems that each of us navigates in different ways depending upon our identities, lived experiences, privilege and access.
The key is knowing the difference (as well as the similarities), and having the knowledge, skills and communication abilities to identify it and support your clients needs in the best possible way.
This practical training focuses on the implementation of harm prevention and racial trauma awareness principles, acknowledgement of privilege, biases, behaviours and stereotypes that may occur while coaching racialised (BBIMP - Black, Brown, Indigenous Melanated People - a phrase coined by Louiza Doran to decentre whiteness regarding racialised identities) clients and it offers benefits to racialised coaches and helping professionals too.
This program explores the practical skills to create a racial trauma-aware, trauma-informed, anti-oppressive and safer space to work and to understand racial trauma in the people you serve.
You will:
- Understand the importance of unpacking privilege and preventing prejudice as a helping professional
- Effect changed behaviour, language, conditioning and attitudes towards racialised people
- Discover the overlap and connection between Racially Related Defences and Ego Defence Mechanisms
- Understand the essential concept of 'Heart Over Harm' in client-coaching relationships
- Understand the impacts of Racial Trauma
- Create safer coaching and therapeutic spaces for racialised clientele
Who should attend?
Anyone providing coaching or helping professional services - coaches, counsellors, mentors, therapists, healers, wellness.
This training program will suit people who provide services to racialised people including racialised coaches and helping professionals.
This training is applicable to diverse identities across the coaching, spirituality, wellness and therapeutic sectors, and beyond.
Anyone providing coaching or helping professional services - coaches, counsellors, mentors, therapists, healers, wellness.
This training program will suit people who provide services to racialised people including racialised coaches and helping professionals.
This training is applicable to diverse identities across the coaching, spirituality, wellness and therapeutic sectors, and beyond.
This practical training serves to:
- Encourage safety as racial trauma-aware advocates, coaches and helping professionals.
- Provide proactive care and support to racialised clients.
- Prevent racial harm in the coaching relationship.
- Enable mindful and empathetic care of our racialised clients.
- Grow your confidence and ability in serving and supporting racialised clients to regulate their nervous system.
- Guide racialised clients to feel and express without judgement or harm while seeking coaching and counselling support.
Participants will:
What do my clients and students have to say about working with me?
Read the Testimonials here.
- Develop an understanding of privilege, harm and racial trauma awareness and its impacts.
- Use a racial trauma-informed and anti-oppressive lens to address challenging behaviours within themselves to unpack and better serve their racialised client base.
- Recognise through case studies and scenarios how to apply the principles of racial trauma awareness in your client & coaching practice.
- Deepen awareness and understanding to support racialised clients and provide a safer space for them to express their concerns.
- Remember that the burden of racial trauma awareness is on the coach and practitioner and not on the racialised client.
What do my clients and students have to say about working with me?
Read the Testimonials here.
Why this training?
This practical training provides a foundation for understanding racial trauma and its impacts.
One area that has really - if not at all - been addressed during the course of trauma-informed and trauma awareness study, holistic counselling and therapy training is the lack of anti-oppressive training or racial trauma awareness as part of the curriculum.
I developed this training when I was studying holistic counselling in 2018 and that was where I saw the gap, erasure and omission of racial trauma from the conversations in the training I was undertaking and the lack of safety I felt to explore, express and be supported through my racial trauma during the practical elements of the training and the microaggressions, racism and white fragility I experienced during that time. This training was approved to be my Diploma project. Due to the extreme focus on Byron Katie's The Work which was required to receive the qualification, and the racism, white fragility & microaggressions I experienced from students and my teacher/mentor, I had to leave this area of study.
This training is important for all coaches and helping professionals to build a strong foundational base and understanding of coaching through an anti-oppressive lens and the understanding of privilege and harm prevention as it relates to racial trauma.
This training program utilises past and current research and resources to provide an understanding of racial trauma, its impact of racial trauma on all aspects of life and the subsequent mechanisms formed.
This training is not about treating racial trauma or its symptoms.
It is training to aid recognition of racial trauma experiences and why racialised client challenges stem from white supremacy.
This practical training provides a foundation for understanding racial trauma and its impacts.
One area that has really - if not at all - been addressed during the course of trauma-informed and trauma awareness study, holistic counselling and therapy training is the lack of anti-oppressive training or racial trauma awareness as part of the curriculum.
I developed this training when I was studying holistic counselling in 2018 and that was where I saw the gap, erasure and omission of racial trauma from the conversations in the training I was undertaking and the lack of safety I felt to explore, express and be supported through my racial trauma during the practical elements of the training and the microaggressions, racism and white fragility I experienced during that time. This training was approved to be my Diploma project. Due to the extreme focus on Byron Katie's The Work which was required to receive the qualification, and the racism, white fragility & microaggressions I experienced from students and my teacher/mentor, I had to leave this area of study.
This training is important for all coaches and helping professionals to build a strong foundational base and understanding of coaching through an anti-oppressive lens and the understanding of privilege and harm prevention as it relates to racial trauma.
This training program utilises past and current research and resources to provide an understanding of racial trauma, its impact of racial trauma on all aspects of life and the subsequent mechanisms formed.
This training is not about treating racial trauma or its symptoms.
It is training to aid recognition of racial trauma experiences and why racialised client challenges stem from white supremacy.
Benefits for racialised coaches and helping professionals
- A greater understanding of self and how trauma impacts you differently and more broadly as a racialised person
- Clarity over what is racism, racial trauma and harm over minimising the ways you've been harmed and impacted by white supremacy.
- How you can better support yourself and your racialised clients.
- Identify ego defence mechanisms and racially related defence mechanisms without gaslighting yourself to minimise the racial harm, pain and trauma you experience from white people as well as racialised people with internalised racism and internalised oppressive behaviours.
- Providing you with plain language and definitions to describe the ways racism and racial trauma impact you.
Format
Immediate access to:
- 2-hour recorded video presentation.
- PDF Session workbook to document, deepen, integrate and reflect.
- Reading and resources list.
All content is accessible through Podia until 31 December 2022.
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