Uncovering Trauma's Impact
Discover the 4 trauma patterns that sabotage coaching
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Trauma shows up in subtle ways…
Do you find yourself stuck or frustrated with certain clients?
Ever had a client who argues, avoids trying new things, wants to please you, or shuts down during sessions? These behaviours could be trauma patterns. From 1000’s of clients, and from the UK to Ukraine, I’ve seen most of the ways trauma undermines coaching!
Often, coaches are working with trauma without even realising it. Trauma is VERY common, and doesn’t always look the way people expect. Areas as broad as health, relationships and money are affected by trauma. Most things are, in fact, at least to some degree. The body definitely is, so trauma education is a must for embodiment coaches and movement teachers.
You don’t need to be a therapist to support clients with trauma, but trauma can be sneaky, so it’s good to know what to look out for. Bluntly: understanding trauma is vital for working well as a coach, trainer or facilitator.
Spot the 4 patterns
So… how can you tell if something’s trauma-related?
There are 4 subtle patterns that can indicate that you’ve crossed into trauma territory. These have clear signs, and a different “feel” each too. They all block learning.
Recognising when a client is acting out a trauma response is important if you want to do effective work, and also just to be kind. Missing them can be dangerous. We all need to know how to work with trauma, and also when to refer clients on.
Another mistake is thinking everything is trauma, which is also to be avoided! Not everything is trauma, (despite what some damn influencers say)! I can help you draw the line, and be trauma informed not deformed.
And look after yourself!
For facilitators, vicarious trauma is also a challenge. By knowing the warning signs, you’ll avoid taking on other’s trauma and burning out. Been there, done that, got the blood-stained t-shirt, and learnt how to not repeat the mistake! I learnt the hard way. PLEASE learn from me the easy way.
This FREE training will help you to identify your clients’ trauma for them AND for you.
By recognising a client’s trauma signs early, you can both protect yourself and co-regulate your client to bring them safely back to the present. This skill is greatly appreciated. It WILL also make you stand out as a coach or facilitator. Most people today have learnt about trauma, but not actually become skilled with it.
Simply put, if you work with people, Uncovering Trauma’s Impact will help you help others more effectively, more kindly, and to look after yourself when doing so. As ever, it’s free and we have a course afterwards, but I will give you as much great stuff in this event as I can cram in, as it’s vital to know. Facilitators really need this stuff.
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Uncovering Trauma's Impact
Discover the 4 trauma patterns that limit learning
Recognising the early warning signs that you’re working with trauma can be the difference between happy clients and, well, damaging them.
If you work with the body, this knowledge isn’t just a nice-to-have.
On this FREE training you’ll learn…
- The behaviours associated with the 4 most common trauma patterns
- The 9 “must-know” areas that trauma shows up (some of these will surprise you!)
- What you need to know (and do) before you can support clients with post-traumatic growth
To get a link to the live sessions from October 16-18, along with free replays from October 19-20, you may like to…
You may like this free training if you are a…
Coach or facilitator
Movement or meditation teacher
Therapist or bodyworker
… Who wants to recognise the signs of trauma to safely and effectively support your clients
After this training you’ll…
- Anticipate the common areas that trauma will show up in your clients’ lives
- Learn how the 4 trauma patterns show up in coaching and teaching contexts
- Be kinder and more understanding of why particular clients are driving you nuts
- Have some strategies to avoid vicarious trauma and burnout when working with trauma
- Be able to identify when it’s okay to work with a client around trauma and when you need to refer them
This will make you more effective and successful in your work with clients, and potentially allow you to work with a greater diversity of clients.
Does this sound familiar?
Many facilitators think that they won’t have to work with trauma because it’s not their main area. That’s not the case, however. It can show up anywhere. Here are some examples.
You could be a…
- Health coach who has a client who understands logically what they’re trying to do but struggles with following through. They keep self-sabotaging.
- Yoga teacher who has a student who keeps pushing themselves too hard in class, leading to injuries. You’ve warned them of the dangers but they keep doing it.
- Money coach who has given your client lots of strategies, yet they find ways to stay poor.
In each of these cases (and plenty more), a client’s trauma patterns could be overcoming their conscious desire to make changes.
This training will give you some strategies to do in these cases to be more successful in your work.
What past students say...
I already had an embodied practice, but it feels so much more enriched. My students have already noticed a shift, which they love. There are a range of tools and the way they are broken down is excellent. A wonderful training!
The training was well-structured with wonderful teachers. What really sets it apart from others is the off-the-cushion practices and the emphasis on the transfer of skills developed into daily life.
The main takeaway for me was an attitude of kindness towards myself and my practice. Self-compassion resonated a lot with me. Great content overall.
It’s been transformational, empowering. I’m already seeing positive impacts on my classes.
Wow, I learned so much! The structure was really nice and fluid, and organisation over-the-top awesome.
This work has been a central anchor in times of turmoil, as well as an enhanced sense of peace when things are generally going well.
The course helped me to create the space for a daily morning practice again, and for the first time – be fully committed to it.
I thought that ‘coming home to your body’ was just a nice metaphor until I really felt it!
I can honestly say this training was a total game-changer for me personally and in my coaching practice. By far the most valuable training investment I’ve ever made.
Using CEC's learning and teaching has given me the power and authority to help transform the lives of many Filipinos for the better.
I never had so many 'aha moments' during a training as in this one. As a coach, I use the practices every day which helps my clients gain a deeper awareness of their state of being, and more possibilities and choices.
Embodiment allows me to coach from wholeness. This leads to much better results, much quicker.
I’m already easily blending the tools learned with my own coaching style. It is an upgrade for my set of skills and resources as a coach.
CEC had a huge impact for me by giving me some essential tools that make coaching so much more powerful. I also gained awareness around my own patterns, which means better presence for my clients.
My coaching is more precise and effective now. My clients now achieve their goals in a shorter time and fewer sessions.
CEC gave me confidence in my niche and underlined the importance of my own practice and well-being, it confirmed my core interest in trauma.
It has made me want to set up a business offering coaching. I feel so grateful for all I have learned with you, with the course opening into so many fascinating paths.
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Schedule
Sessions are live from October 16-18, with free replays from October 19-20.
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Each session runs for 30 minutes, with 15 minutes of Q&A following each.
October 16
(Wednesday)
The 4 patterns & 9 areas trauma shows up
Mark Walsh
9am UK time
(1am PDT / 7pm AEDT)
Biodynamic breathwork for trauma release
Giten Tonkov
10am UK time
(2am PDT / 78pm AEDT)
Working with trauma for coaches, teachers & facilitators
Mark Walsh
6pm UK time
(10am PDT / 4am AEDT)
October 17
(Thursday)
How trauma impacts your clients' capacity for intimacy & self-care
Patricia Aguirre
4pm UK time
(8am PDT / 2am AEDT)
How trauma messes with your marketing
Mark Walsh
6pm UK time
(10am PDT / 4am AEDT)
October 18
(Friday)
Coaching "nice" people: boundaries & people-pleasing
Mark Walsh
9am UK time
(1am PDT / 7pm AEDT)
Post-traumatic growth: turning clients' trauma into superpowers
Mark Walsh
6pm UK time
(10am PDT / 4am AEDT)
Teachers
Mark Walsh
CEO & Founder, Embodiment Unlimited
Mark Walsh leads embodiment, coaching and trauma education trainings.
He is the author of Embodiment, Working with the Body in Training and Coaching, and Embodied Meditation. Mark hosts The Embodiment Podcast (2 million+ downloads), and led The Embodiment Conference (1000 teachers, 500,000 delegates). Seeing a theme yet?
He founded the Embodied Facilitator Course, and the Certificate of Embodiment Coaching. Mark has certified over 2000 embodiment coaches, and taught workshops in over 40 countries.
He gained an honours degree in psychology (despite been an alcoholic at the time), and has taught widely in the corporate world – where he pretended to be a grown up for years – including with blue-chip companies (e.g. Google, Unilever, Shell, Axa, L’Oreal).
Mark has worked in war zones (including founding a trauma education charity in Ukraine), and entertained over 50,000 children. He has headlined International Coach Federation events, lived with the circus and in slums, taught celebrities, and kissed a princess.
Mark is an aikido black belt, and also has 28 years of experience in other martial arts, yoga, bodywork, improv comedy, conscious dance and meditation.
Embodiment is his obsession, life’s work, and frankly, at this point he couldn’t get a job doing anything else. He dances like your dad at a wedding, impresses cats with his stroking, and offends pirates with his swearing.
Mark’s now tired of writing in the third person. It’s getting weird.
Patricia Aguirre
Trauma trainer, PTSD specialist
Patricia Aguirre offers psychological coaching processes with a particular focus on women’s needs.
She is a specialist and trainer in trauma work and CPTSD worldwide, and teaches body work, somatics and embodiment.
Patricia holds a masters in family constellations, and has been trained in neurobiology of human behaviour, as well as attachment-based therapies, certified as couples counsellor with attachment-based outlooks, and transpersonal therapy.
She combines all of this education with a foundation of 20 years of experience on a personal spiritual pursuit in eastern philosophies that she now integrates in a grounded expression of spirituality for everyday life application.
Giten Tonkov
BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release Institute
Giten Tonkov is the Founder and Director of BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release Institute (BBTRS®).
He shares a mastery of body-oriented therapies that has evolved from decades of learning and work with thousands of clients.
Giten is a Licensed Massage Therapist and certified Breath & Body Oriented Therapist, and he developed BBTRS® whilst on a years-long personal journey of recovering his own body, which carried the impact of a childhood accident. His body “remembered” the accident in ways his mind did not, and the suffering was trapped within him.
Throughout many years of working with different bodywork modalities, conscious movement, and meditation techniques, he identified a series of tools that came together into a single practice that he has been sharing with thousands across the world for nearly 20 years.
Giten documented this work, and its origins, in his book Feel to Heal: Releasing Trauma Through Body Awareness and Breathwork Practice.
Since developing BBTRS®, Giten — along with former students who have become leading BBTRS® facilitators, Nisarga Dobosz and Prema McKeever — also began offering body-oriented trainings in Poland. These now include specialised Acute Trauma trainings for Ukrainian refugees impacted by war, as part of the Ukrainian Training Resilience Project (offered in collaboration between BBTRF and IBF).
A native of Ukraine, Giten lives in the Santa Cruz mountains in California, USA, and the Greek Island of Lesvos. He previously lived and practised in New York City for 24 years, as well as India and Bali, Indonesia, for more than ten years.
What embodiment leaders say...
Embodiment is an essential component of healing and Embodiment Unlimited does valuable work bringing its importance to the public. I have enjoyed working with this innovative organisation.
Embodiment Unlimited is THE place for YOU to learn, heal, rest, be seen & heard.
Challenges to our safety make us strangers in our own body. Embodiment Unlimited provides important resources informing individuals about practices leading to an effective ‘re-embodiment’ that enhances mental and physical health.
Mark has a special ability to make embodiment work relevant and accessible.
The Embodiment Unlimited team provide a learning experience which draws on many forms of embodiment, then integrates it in a way that forms a more whole process for growth.
Mark brings embodiment to life with passion, irreverence and grit. It makes a body want to celebrate!
The embodied work that Mark and the team does is both creative and practical. As a facilitator I get a lot from teaching alongside them and always enjoy the mix of humour and pragmatism.
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“I’ve been learning about trauma for quite a few years, first from my mentor Paul Linden and then in the charities sector. I’ve also hosted most of the world’s top trauma teachers on our summits and podcasts.
At first I thought trauma was all about signs and symptoms, and conditions like PTSD. However, the more I studied it, the more I realised it can show up in nearly every aspect of life, and therefore every aspect of coaching. For example, people’s attitudes towards food, money and sex are REALLY influenced by trauma.
We tend to think of trauma as having very extreme symptoms, like flashbacks, but it’s really just about the state of someone’s nervous system. This impacts everything, so it’s about how they do life! If people respond to daily stuff as existentially threatening… well that’s just a crappy way to live.
Yes, I’ve worked with trauma in extreme conditions like in Ukraine, but the learnings there have informed my coaching for everyone. People who have not been in wars or had catastrophic life events still have trauma messing with their lives. I can easily see that now. Working with trauma at the very ‘sharpest end’ has helped me easily identify the whole spectrum of trauma.
The work that I’ve done in Ukraine or elsewhere has also given me a sense of what is NOT trauma. These days, everyone on social media tells us that every single damn thing is trauma. The bar for trauma has become ridiculously low. This isn’t helpful, and it is worth differentiating things that are and are not trauma. I’m pretty well placed to do that.
Another thing that myself and the team in Ukraine have learnt the hard way is how to deal with vicarious trauma and burnout. I thought I’d learnt about this through reading the books and listening to talks previously. However, it’s a whole different thing having experienced extensive trauma in Ukraine, and we learnt that we had to be very, very good at self-care in ways that aren’t obvious. The whole team has made mistakes here frankly, and from that we’ve learnt some excellent best practice.
Trauma is much more insidious than people think. Techniques for self-care around traumatised people need to be personalised and extensive. I hope to pass these onto you so you don’t go through anything like the burnout I went through last year, along with what many people in the Sane Ukraine team suffered from.
Bear in mind that we were all people who knew ABOUT trauma beforehand, so we thought we had this covered, but we then upped our game because we had to. I’d love to pass this onto you so you don’t have to learn the hard way.
Beyond harm avoidance, understanding a client’s trauma will just make you a more effective coach. This becomes obvious when you’re supporting clients, when they try to actually change their behaviour, or when they’re reactive and struggling. Being trauma informed (but not deformed) just makes you a better coach for everyone!
I’ve also found that it can help every aspect of your personal life. For me, losing weight was something I wasn’t able to do before I had a greater understanding of trauma. Just as one example. What’s that, I look great now? Thanks! Other things impacted by trauma include intimacy – which I won’t go into details here… but yes, trauma healing makes you sexy 😉 – boundaries, and even people’s politics!
You get the idea. If you work with others in some way, this event will help you. Yes, trauma’s everywhere, and no, trauma isn’t everything. At this event you’ll learn how to recognise it, what you can do to support others’ suffering, and how to protect yourself, too. It’s well worth the investment of $0 dollars 🙂
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- Embodiment through the lens of the Polyvagal Theory with Stephen Porges
- Transforming trauma history in the present with Ron de Brito
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There are live sessions each day from October 16-18, with more to be announced soon. To see when and convert to your timezone, you may like to click here to see the schedule>>>
If you get your free ticket, you’ll be sent free access to watch from on October 19-20.
Replays will also be available to buy if you’d like lifetime access to watch in your own time.
Yes – after signing up you’ll have the option to purchase replays at the super early-bird rate.
After signing up you’ll be sent an email with a link to access your bonuses.
You’ll get more instructions once you get your free ticket.
We have a sense of humour and like to have fun while we teach. If you’re easily offended, you may not like it. Sessions are a place for robust adults.
Yes. Although please be mindful that working with the body can be triggering.
This training is purely educational, so if you are in need of therapy, please seek help from qualified professionals.
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