Trauma-informed CPD & Professional Development
Practical, trauma-aware and nervous-system-informed training for professionals
Practical CPD for people working in complex, people-facing roles.
Why this matters
Trauma is more common, and more relevant to practice, than many people realise.
People are arriving into services, workplaces and institutions more stressed, dysregulated and overwhelmed than ever. Trauma, chronic stress and complexity shape how people listen, communicate, decide and relate.
Most professional development focuses on policy, knowledge or behaviour without addressing the nervous system conditions that shape how people actually function under pressure. Over time, this gap affects communication, judgement, trust, care and sustainability in practice.
Much of what we call behaviour is the nervous system trying to find safety. When we understand this, everything changes.
CPD training for professionals
Satisfy your training requirements with useful and meaningful learning
Cocreate Change offers trauma-aware, nervous-system-informed professional development that helps people work with more steadiness, compassion and clarity in complex environments.
These sessions are practical, accessible and suitable for professionals across health, legal, education, community and government sectors.
If your profession allows self-recorded or self-reported CPD, these trainings can usually be counted, and all sessions include certificates of completion and clear learning outcomes.
Trauma-informed training modules
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.
Some of the 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 nervous system activation, 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
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.
What’s included
Every Professional Development training module includes
- Clear learning outcomes
- A certificate of completion (suitable for self-reported CPD)
- Short reflection prompts for practice integration
- live online delivery or pre-recorded options for internal CPD libraries
Sessions are gentle, spacious and accessible, designed to meet people where they are.
This is practical professional development designed to support meaningful learning, not just compliance.
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
- Connections to trauma-aware service design work
This is ideal for teams who want to embed trauma-aware practice at multiple levels.
What is Trauma?
Taught by Jax Wechsler
Jax has spent years teaching trauma-aware practices and nervous system literacy to designers and change-makers. She has seen how powerful this work can be — for individuals, teams, and whole systems.
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 working with organisations and change
- Trauma-informed, nervous system-aware practice
- Extensive experience teaching in organisations & universities
- Social innovation and systems change experience
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