classes & trainings

Becoming Trauma-Informed I FOUNDATIONS:

Re-membering Wholeness, Safety & Resilience in Manual Therapy

For All Manual Therapists: Massage Therapists, Acupuncturists, Chiropractors, Osteopaths, Naturopaths, Personal Trainers, Physiotherapists

2 -DAY- 16 hour,  Evidence-based Practice, Continuing Education Workshop

“A Trauma-Informed Practice fosters an environment where the diversity of each patient’s lived experience is met 

with compassion, humility, and empathy to provide care and service safely, effectively, and respectfully.”

FACILITATOR: Elisa Peterson, MEd, SEP, RMT

• All workshops meet new RMT, Quality Assurance (QA) program requirements
• Certificate of Participation and Workshop Notes provided
• REGISTER HERE

2026 WORKSHOP Schedule: COMING DECEMBER 1ST

• Saturday I 9:00am- 6:00pm PST
• Sunday I 9:00am- 4:00pm PST

ABOUT Becoming Trauma -Informed

Becoming Trauma-Informed I FOUNDATIONS: “Re-membering Wholeness, Safety & Resilience in Manual Therapy”

A unique training that integrates cognitive, contemplative, and embodied learning to support manual therapists in building safety, trust, and self-regulation within the therapeutic relationship, the practice environment, and through touch. The presence of trauma in all communities makes it such that clinicians are both knowingly and unknowingly supporting patients who have experienced trauma, past and present. Becoming trauma-informed begins with exploring and embodying principles of relationship, communication, and response-ability that build connection, safety, and trust.

HOLISTIC Learning Approach

Our training acknowledges the whole person in learning – the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual elements of how we can experience ourselves as people.

With an integrative approach, students are offered the opportunity to learn with:

• Current Evidence-based Research
• Contemplative Reflection and Somatic Inquiry
• Body-oriented Practice such as Movement and Mindfulness

WORKSHOP Investment

• $425 + GST
• Payment: Credit Card 

CURRICULUM At-A-Glance

FOUNDATIONS – Building Safety, Trust &  Self- Regulation in Manual Therapy

I .Trauma through the Lens of Relationship

• Neuroception: The Unspoken Conservation of the Nervous System
• Your Brain and Trauma: Dysregulation and Regulation
• Sources of Trauma

II. Polyvagal Theory:

• Getting to Know Our Evolved Vagus Nerve: The Social Engagement System
• Exploring the Wisdom of Our Survival Physiology- Fight, Flight & Freeze
• Discovering the Body’s Communication Cues of Threat and Safety

III. Building A Felt Sense of Safety: Noticing Body Cues

IV. Physiological Symptoms of Safety and Trauma in Our Patients

V. Scope of Practice and Patient Referrals

Possibilities for Dialogue…

• What does meeting a patient with compassion and humility feel like inside my body?
• What are the factors that define “the diversity of our lived experience”?
• How does the story of a patient influence my own nervous system?

ALL WELCOME I Bursaries and Student Rates are available

If you would like to be part of the training,  Get in Touch with Elisa.

HEALING as a Community I  Donated Class Fee

10% of your registration fees will be donated to support Indigenous Communities of Canada:

• Tsleil-Waututh Nation Residential School Survivors Fund

VENUE Details

Location: Bodhi Tree Teaching Centre

Unit #212 – 17696 65A  Avenue,

Surrey, BC, V3S 1Z8

Venue Phone: +1 778-688-6824

REGISTER HERE

Online OCTOBER  🍂  Healthcare COMMUNITY Circle:

“Pausing & Pacing when Clients Share their Health Story … Navigating Boundaries & Ensuring Client Safety”

Sunday, October 19th , Online

9:00am- 10:15am, Vancouver time

Fee: 🟠 This circle is complementary in honour of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

Registration Link

🌿 What can we do when clients share or disclose:

• too much, too fast or small bits with missing pieces
• parts of their story we think we can’t help with
• something we’re uncomfortable with
• personal details we don’t think are pertinent or necessary to know
• other examples… your own experiences

🌿 What is happening in their nervous system and body?

🌿How do we create boundaries and safety for our clients when sharing their stories?

🟠 Upcoming Circles

• November 9 I When Living in our Body = Feeling Uncomfortable… Supporting Clients with Chronic Pain
• December 7 I Fawning or Appeasement as a Nervous System Management Strategy
• January 11 I When Healthcare Providers Feel “Triggered”: Strategies & Skills to Find Our Centre
• February 8 I Differentiation in the Nervous System: Where Clients Find Choices & See New Perspectives

🟠 What’s Happening at Our Circles

🌿Practice and Application of Foundations Principles

• Body awareness
• Attunement
• Pausing
• Body cues and limits
• Small steps instead of leaps

🌿Conversation & Dialogue

1. Teaching on Circle Topic
2. Your Questions, Ideas and Reflections
3. Scope of Practice Considerations

🌿Experiential Practice w Break-out Groups

🌿What New Questions Arise?

🟠 How Do You Learn Best? … Your Unique Way is Welcomed

During our circle, do what works for you…

Stand, sit,

lay on a yoga mat

move around (maybe you’re baking cookies) or

be still.

Find your rhythm 🌊

🟠 Registration LINK