Trauma-informed coaching masterclass - live May 15
When trauma shows up in coaching
Clear boundaries, practical tools, and knowing when to refer
If you’ve coached people for more than five minutes, trauma has likely shown up as shutdown, overwhelm or someone looking fine while their nervous system does backflips.
Most coaches go wrong in one of two directions:
- They tiptoe around it and become weird
- They wade in too deep and take on more than’s safe
Neither is great.
This LIVE 75-minute masterclass is about the middle way: how coaches, facilitators and practitioners can work safely and confidently when trauma shows up… without turning coaching into therapy.
In this masterclass you will:
- Get clear on what trauma-informed coaching actually means in practice
- Know what is inside your scope, and what really is not
- Learn simple coach-safe tools you can use straight away
- Know what to do when a client freezes, floods, dissociates or shuts down
- Get clearer on when to stay, when to slow down, and when to refer
What you’ll learn
What “trauma-informed” actually means
Not buzzwords or the “trauma-malformed” Instagram version, but what it looks like in real coaching.
The coach’s safe zone
Scope, boundaries, consent and the red flags that matter.
Practical tools you can actually use
Centring, orienting, tracking and pacing adapted for coaching, not therapy.
What to do in the moment
What to say, what to do, and how not to make it worse when a client freezes, floods, dissociates, or shuts down.
How not to fry yourself
Regulating yourself, avoiding burnout, and not carrying things that are not yours.
Referral without awkwardness
How to say “this is outside my scope” clearly and cleanly, without sounding panicked or weird.
Who it's for
This is for you if you are:
- A coach, facilitator or practitioner working directly with people
- Already seeing emotional intensity, shutdown or overwhelm in sessions
- Wanting to be more confident and less hesitant when that happens
- Looking for practical tools and clear boundaries, not vague theory
- Serious about doing good work without wandering outside your scope
However, it’s probably not a fit if you’re looking for therapy, in an acute mental health crisis that needs clinical support, wanting a quick badge without responsibility or practice, or mostly interested in trauma language as branding.
Scope and ethics
Let’s keep this simple.
Trauma-informed coaching is not therapy.
You’re not diagnosing, treating or doing clinical trauma processing, but instead helping clients to:
- Build capacity
- Stay more regulated
- Make better choices
- Work with their nervous system in a way that is safer and more useful
In this training we’ll make the line clear:
- What sits comfortably inside coaching
- What is a sign to slow down or stop
- What needs referral or collaboration with a clinician
- How to talk about that with clients without sounding defensive
If you are tired of “just use your intuition”, this should help.
Why this is worth learning
Trauma themes are everywhere in coaching now. That’s not because everyone’s traumatised, but because stress responses, protection patterns, overwhelm, freeze, people-pleasing, collapse and reactivity are just part of working with humans.
If you ignore that, you miss a lot. But if you overreach, you also create a different problem.
This training is about the bit in the middle where coaches can actually be useful:
- Clearer
- Safer
- Less avoidant
- Less likely to overstep
- More confident when things get messy
About Mark Walsh
Mark Walsh has been teaching embodiment and training coaches for more than 15 years.
He’s worked with thousands of coaches and facilitators internationally and written multiple books on embodiment.
More importantly for this topic, through his work in multiple warzones and founding the Sane Ukraine charity, he knows the difference between:
- What helps in coaching
- What belongs in therapy
- And what coaches need when things get more charged than expected
This is not about sounding informed.
It is about being more useful in real sessions.
Taught in 40+ countries
Certified 2000+ coaches
Author of 6 books
Dates and pricing
Trauma-Informed Coaching Masterclass
Your ticket also includes lifetime access to the recording.
If trauma has ever shown up in your coaching and you were not fully sure what to do next, this might be for you.
You’ll walk away with:
- Practical tools for clearer boundaries
- Better discernment for when to engage or refer
- Techniques to work with the body safely and effecitvely
Normal price
$50
Early-bird until we start
$19
FAQ
No.
This is professional training for coaches on how to work more safely when trauma themes show up, and when to refer.
No.
This is specifically for coaches and facilitators. The point is learning your scope, not pretending you have a clinical one.
Practical.
You’ll leave with tools, language and better discernment you can use immediately.
That’s common.
We’ll cover what to do in the moment, what to say, and how to slow things down without making it weird.
Yes.
If you register, you’ll have lifetime access to the replay afterwards.
No.
It’s a masterclass. If you want deeper training later, we’ll point you to that separately.