Trauma-informed Professional Development
Build capacity, clarity and care in the systems you work within.
For people who work with people.
People are arriving into services more stressed, dysregulated and overwhelmed than ever. Trauma, chronic stress and complexity shape how we listen, communicate and relate.
Why this matters
What might be possible if your team felt more regulated, responsive and connected?
Most of what we call “behaviour” is actually the nervous system trying to feel safe. When we understand this, everything changes.
When we understand what’s happening in the nervous system, everything changes, conversations soften, interactions feel safer, and care becomes more sustainable.
People are arriving into services more stressed, dysregulated and overwhelmed than ever. Trauma, chronic stress and complexity shape how we listen, communicate and relate.
Our training offers a simple, supportive way for individuals and teams to strengthen these skills and embed trauma-aware practice into everyday work.
For practitioners who want to strengthen their capacity to regulate, relate and respond — within themselves, their teams and the systems they’re part of.
Trauma Informed Training
Satisfy your training requirements with useful and meaningful learning
Cocreate Change offer trauma-aware, nervous-system-informed professional development sessions that support people to show up with more steadiness, compassion and presence in complex environments.
These short trainings are practical, accessible and suitable for a wide range of professions across health, legal, education, community and government sectors.
Most professional groups in Australia and abroad can self-record CPD, and all sessions include certificates of completion and clear learning outcomes.
Training for people working with people
Trauma-informed practice is for everyone, because trauma is widespread and often invisible.
- GPs and primary care teams
- Nurses, practice managers and reception teams
- Lawyers and legal support staff
- Allied health and community health practitioners
- Government and customer-facing staff
- Youth and family services
- Disability and NDIS teams
- Educators and early childhood practitioners
- Social workers, counsellors and therapists
- Designers, facilitators and community workers
If your profession allows self-reported CPD (and most do), these trainings can usually be counted.
Our change partners
Testimonials
What people are saying
Inclusions
Every Professional Development training module includes
- Clear learning outcomes
- Certificate of completion (suitable for self-reported CPD)
- Short reflection prompts for practice integration
- Optional Q&A for organisational bookings
Available live online or as pre-recorded modules for internal CPD libraries.
Sessions are gentle, spacious and accessible, designed to meet people where they are.
Compulsory PD doesn’t have to be superficial. These sessions offer grounded, practical learning that helps you show up with more steadiness, clarity and compassion.
CPD training for professionals
These sessions support people to slow down, tune into their nervous system and respond with more care and clarity.
Sessions introduce foundational concepts in trauma-aware practice, nervous system literacy and trauma-aware design and delivery.
Topics Available
Topics can be tailored to the needs of specific professions, teams or organisational contexts.
A selection of our CPD-ready trauma-informed practice modules includes:
Understanding Trauma in Practice
A clear, accessible introduction to trauma, stress and the nervous system, and how these patterns shape behaviour, communication and engagement in everyday settings.
Recognising Activation in Yourself and Others
Learn to spot the early signs of sympathetic activation and shutdown — in clients and in yourself — to prevent escalation and support steadier interactions.
Trauma-Aware Communication
How tone, pacing and clarity influence safety, trust and connection. Practical approaches to communicate in ways that support regulation for everyone involved.
Working with Distress
Foundational skills for responding to people who are overwhelmed, shut down or reactive. Learn how to stay grounded and offer support without taking on more emotional load.
Creating Trauma-Aware Teams and Cultures
Explore the relational dynamics, rhythms and small cultural shifts that create safer, more supportive environments for both staff and the communities you serve.
Boundaries and Sustainable Care
Explore healthy boundaries, emotional load, vicarious trauma and practices that protect your wellbeing while preserving compassion and presence.
Safer Pathways and Predictable Processes
Small design choices significantly influence someone’s felt sense of safety. Learn how to identify friction points, reduce overwhelm and create clearer, calmer service experiences.
Responding with Presence, Not Reactivity
Understand the shift from reaction to response. Learn how nervous system awareness supports ethical judgment, clearer decision-making and more grounded professional practice.
Designing Trauma-Aware Experiences
Your “special sauce”: simple, accessible service design tools that help teams map and improve client and staff experiences with a trauma-aware, nervous-system lens.
Trauma-Informed Leadership
A session for leaders who want to strengthen presence, communication and relational capacity while cultivating cultures that support safety, wellbeing and sustainable impact.
Build your own CPD series
Organisations can choose a single module or curate a multi-session learning pathway over time.
This supports deeper integration, shared understanding and more sustainable change.
A CPD series can include:
- regular monthly or quarterly sessions
- sessions tailored to specific roles or teams
- leadership-focused modules
- optional implementation support
- links to trauma-aware experience design work
This is ideal for teams who want to embed trauma-aware practice at multiple levels.
Why is Trauma Informed practice important?
What is Trauma?
Download Jax’s book chapter published in the book:
Taught by Jax Wechsler
I’ve spent years teaching trauma-aware practices and nervous system literacy to designers and changemakers. I’ve seen how powerful this work can be — for individuals, teams, and whole systems. This training has been delivered to over 800 professionals world-wide.
Trauma-informed practice isn’t just about protecting others from harm. It’s about building the conditions for connection, trust, and transformative change.
Jax Wechsler, Founder
- 20+ Years Experience
- Social Innovation Leader
- Nervous System Literacy
- Trauma-Aware Educator
- Inner Leadership Coach
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