Speaking & Trauma-Integrated Workshops

Louise brings a rare mix of trauma-integrated expertise, real-world frontline experience, and a deeply relational way of teaching that resonates across any audience-youth workers, educators, students, corporate teams, Indigenous communities, and frontline responders.  She has spent her career working with youth and young adults who have been disconnected from systems, marginalized by circumstance, and impacted by trauma, exploitation, and chronic stress.

 

What makes her different is her ability to translate complex trauma science into clear, practical, usable tools that people can apply immediately-whether in a classroom, a boardroom, a locker room, or a crisis situation.  Louise's workshops are grounded, accessible, culturally safe, and deeply human.  Participants consistently say they feel seen, understood, and empowered rather than overwhelmed.

 

If your team needs to better understand behaviour, reduce escalation, build resilient relationships, support youth or staff in survival mode, or create safer and more connected environments, Louise brings the clarity, compassion, and expertise to make that transformation possible.

Workshop Menu

A trauma-integrated, relational, culturally responsive workshop series for schools, organizations, communities, and corporations.

 

1. From Trauma-Informed to Trauma-Integrated Practice: Working With the Nervous System, Not Just the Framework

Understand the limits of trauma-informed care as a framework, distinguish between awareness and integration, learn how trauma presents at the nervous system and relational level, and apply trauma-integrated thinking to real-world systems and constraints.

Best for: youth workers, frontline practitioners, educators & supervisors.

 

2. Trauma-Integrated Support for High-Risk & System-Disconnected Youth

Learn practical, real-world strategies for engaging those who avoid services, live in survival mode, or have been repeatedly failed by systems.
Best for: educators, outreach workers, shelters, youth justice, mental health teams.

 

3. Polyvagal-Informed Practice for Frontline Work

How nervous system science explains behaviour, escalation, shutdown, and resilience-plus frontline-ready tools to support regulation and connection.
Best for: any helping profession, teams under pressure, crisis-involved settings.

 

4. Working With Indigenous Youth: Culturally Safe, Community-Led Practice

Understanding intergenerational trauma, relational worldviews, and how to support Indigenous youth respectfully, ethically, and without appropriation.
Best for: agencies working with Indigenous communities, schools, health organizations.

 

5. Trauma-Integrated Crisis Intervention for Non-Clinical Settings

A practical, shame-free approach to crisis response that prioritizes regulation, safety, co-regulation, and relational repair.
Best for: schools, shelters, justice teams, community organizations.

 

6. Fragmented Identity: How Disconnection Shapes Behaviour & Self-Worth

Explore how trauma, attachment ruptures, and chronic stress fragment identity-and how integrated identity is rebuilt through relationship and safety.
Best for: educators, students, clinicians, youth workers, corporate wellness.

 

7. Resilient Classrooms: Trauma-Integrated Tools for Teachers & Administrators

How to reduce behavioural escalations, support dysregulated learners, and create safe, connection-based learning spaces.
Best for: K–12 and post-secondary educators.

 

8. Emotionally Safe Coaching: Supporting Young Athletes Under Pressure

How stress, attachment, identity, and trauma affect athletic performance-and how coaches can build emotionally safe, high-performing environments.
Best for: sports teams, coaches, athletic associations.

 

9. Trauma, Stress & Performance in the Workplace

A trauma-integrated approach to team dynamics, conflict, burnout, performance, change management, and leadership presence.
Best for: corporations, leadership teams, HR, nonprofits.

 

10. Trauma in Systems: How Organizational Structures Fragment Youth

Understanding how system design retraumatizes youth-and how to build trauma-integrated policies, environments, and responses.
Best for: school divisions, agencies, government, nonprofits.

 

11. Trauma-Integrated Parenting: Staying Connected When Kids Are in Survival Mode

Helping caregivers understand the “why” beneath behaviours and learn co-regulation skills that build connection rather than conflict.
Best for: parent groups, schools, community organizations.

 

Below are examples of delivered workshops/trainings/speaking topics.  All sessions are trauma-integrated, customizable, and adapted to the needs of your team or community.

• From Trauma-Informed to Trauma-Integrated Practice: Current Trends & Issues in Social Work

• Navigating Trauma-Impacted Behaviours in Youth: A Trauma-Integrated Lens for Caregivers & Educators

• Parenting Through the Storm: How to Talk About Suicide and Stay Connected

• Building Strong Teams: Mental Wellness, Boundaries, And Accountability in Youth Sport
• Supporting the Officials: Boundaries, Regulation and After the Whistle