CTRI ACHIEVE

Workplace Culture

Trauma-Informed Workplaces

Building a Culture of Strength

Trauma-informed workplaces support both employee well-being and performance. This training helps organizations build cultures rooted in safety, trust, and resilience.

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Available for Private Delivery

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Build Trauma-Informed Workplace Cultures

Trauma is prevalent in our world and has an impact on many of the people we interact with, including our colleagues and those who engage with our organizations. A compassionate and trauma-informed approach is essential for creating healthy workplace cultures. Based on our book, A Little Book About Trauma-Informed Workplaces, this workshop explores five key principles to integrate a trauma-informed approach throughout the organization. By embracing these principles, participants can better contribute to the positive transformation of individuals and relationships affected by trauma. Every organization, from any sector, can benefit from becoming trauma-informed.

Learning Objectives

Discuss the prevalence and impact of trauma on individuals and organizations

List five key trauma-informed principles

Describe practical strategies for implementing each of the five trauma-informed principles

Assess their own organization for areas of trauma-informed strengths and weakness

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Organizations Served

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Private Training

Personalized training solutions for your team.

$3,500

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1 day

Bring a facilitator to your team – onsite or virtual

Personalize content to your context and priorities

Focus on your real challenges and scenarios

Engage in interactive discussion and practical application

Align your team around shared language and approaches

Build skills that translate directly into day-to-day work

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Condensed training in a video format.

$30

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Learn on your schedule, at your own pace

Access from any device, anywhere

Receive a certificate upon completion

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Additional Options

Standalone written learning resource.

What You'll Learn

Strengthen your professional toolkit with strategies you can apply right away. The objectives below outline the core competencies you'll build through this training.

Understand Trauma-Informed Workplace Principles

Learn the core principles of trauma-informed workplaces – safety, trust, choice, collaboration, and empowerment – and what they look like in organizational practice, not just individual interactions.

Recognize How Trauma Affects Employees and Systems

Develop an understanding of how trauma histories and cumulative stress affect employee behaviour, performance, and engagement – at the individual and team level.

Create Physically and Psychologically Safe Environments

Learn the specific organizational practices that make workplaces genuinely safe – including communication norms, physical spaces, and how policies either support or undermine safety.

Support Team Well-Being as an Organizational Practice

Develop approaches for embedding employee well-being into workplace culture – not just offering individual resources but building it into how the organization operates.

Strengthen Organizational Culture

Learn how trauma-informed principles, applied consistently, create stronger, more resilient organizational cultures that attract and retain people.

Sustain Trauma-Informed Practices Over Time

Develop a strategy for embedding and maintaining trauma-informed culture through leadership transitions, growth, and organizational change.

Our Approach

Grounded in research, practical application, and real‑world experience.

Accessible

Clear, approachable learning without unnecessary jargon.

Applicable

Content designed for real‑world challenges and opportunities.

Engaging

Facilitators bring content to life through stories and examples.

Practical

Skills and tools designed for everyday use in your setting.

What People Are Saying

Insights from our participants.

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I'll definitely be on the look out for further training from Achieve. Through other participants I have heard excellent things about other courses. The strengths of the training were the ease of access and the excellent trainer who knew their materials very well and included all participants in the lecture."

Katja Moehl

Bay St. George Residential Support Board

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ACHIEVE Centre for Leadership has become one of our most trusted resources for all things related to workplace culture and leadership. We have utmost confidence that any of their resources and materials are well-researched, verified, and represents best-practice in the industry. "

Nicole McKeen

City of Kawartha Lakes

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The best parts of the workshop were that the instructor was engaging, knowledgeable, and professional, and that the diverse group of participants provided interesting contributions and discussion."

Laine Jensen

Edmonton Police Service

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about the training.

This training is for:

Leaders, managers, and supervisors

Human resources and people operations teams

Executive directors and senior leadership

Team leads and project managers

Employees moving into leadership roles

Professionals in corporate or organizational settings

Nonprofit and public sector administrators

Anyone who wants to strengthen their leadership and team skills

What does this training cover?

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This workshop teaches organizations how to apply trauma-informed principles at a systemic level – creating cultures of safety, trust, and support that improve both employee well-being and organizational performance.

Who is this training for?

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This training is designed for organizational leaders, HR professionals, managers, and anyone involved in shaping workplace culture and policies.

How is this different from Trauma-Informed Leadership training?

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Trauma-Informed Leadership focuses on the individual leader's approach and behaviours. This workshop focuses on organizational systems and culture – policies, structures, and practices that affect the whole workplace.

Is this training clinical?

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No. This workshop is designed for organizational leaders and HR professionals, not clinicians. The focus is on culture and systems, not clinical intervention.

Is this training available online or on-demand?

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Yes. ACHIEVE offers this workshop in live, on-demand, and private formats. View current dates or contact us to arrange a session.

Can this be combined with Psychological Health and Safety or Leadership and Culture training?

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Yes. These topics work well together as part of a comprehensive organizational culture initiative. Contact ACHIEVE for options.

Create Stronger Workplace Cultures

Learn how to build a trauma-informed workplace culture that supports employee well-being, performance, and resilience. View live training dates, explore on-demand options, or bring this workshop to your team.

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Available for Private Delivery

Certificate Included