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Foundations Summer Workshop Series 2026
Beginner to Intermediate Level |
Trauma-Informed Family & Professional Practice
Tuesdays | 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM
A practical, skills-focused summer training series designed for professionals working in family, legal, mediation, child protection, mental health, educational, and human service settings. These beginner to intermediate workshops move beyond theory into applied, trauma-informed practice relevant to complex real-world situations.
Participants may register for individual workshops or complete the full series.
Ideal For
Family mediators
Divorce coaches
Child protection professionals
Mental health practitioners
Human service workers
Lawyers and legal professionals
Educators and support staff
Professionals building trauma-informed practice foundations
Training Style
Live interactive workshops
Applied case examples
Practical implementation strategies
Trauma-informed and ethically grounded approach
Designed for immediate professional application
Course Lineup
Course 1
Managing Family Change: Supporting Children Through Separation
July 2 & 9, 2026
Explore trauma-informed approaches to supporting children and families navigating separation, conflict, transition, and emotional adjustment.
Course 2
Substance Use, Capacity, and Ethical Boundaries in Family Mediation
July 16 & 23, 2026
Examine the intersection of substance use, decision-making capacity, ethics, voluntariness, and mediation safety within family and high-conflict practice.
Course 3
What Substance Use May Hide
July 30 & August 6, 2026
Learn how trauma, coercion, mental health concerns, neurodiversity, and relational dynamics can become masked or misunderstood through substance use presentations.
Course 4
No Bruises, Still Unsafe?
August 13 & 20, 2026
An applied introduction to coercive control, psychological abuse, hidden power imbalance, and trauma-informed screening within family systems.
Course 5
Co-Regulation Before Self-Regulation
August 27 & September 3, 2026
Understand nervous system regulation, relational safety, and practical trauma-informed communication strategies for emotionally escalated and dysregulated interactions.
Intermediate to Advanced
Trauma-Informed Mediation
Coercive Control in Family Systems
Capacity Under Stress
Applying a forensic lens to mediation practice — reading capacity, coercion, and protective factors at the table rather than defaulting to communication frameworks.
Identifying coercive dynamics in custody and protection contexts — behavioural patterns, documentation strategy, and practitioner liability when coercion is missed.
Assessing decision-making capacity in high-stress scenarios — when stress impairs informed consent, participation, and protective action in family and legal proceedings.
When a Child's Voice Becomes Distorted
Calibrated Neutrality Framework
Vicarious Trauma, Burnout
This two-part trauma-informed training explores how stress, loyalty conflicts, suggestibility, family dynamics, trauma exposure, neurodevelopmental differences, and interviewing approaches can unintentionally shape or distort a child's voice during separation and high-conflict family matters. Participants will examine forensic-informed interviewing principles, communication barriers, memory and influence dynamics, and practical approaches for supporting more developmentally sensitive and ethically sound child-inclusive practices. Designed for mediators, helping professionals, and practitioners working with children and families in conflict situations.
Neutrality is not the same as fairness. When power is unequal, applying the same process to everyone in the room does not level the playing field — it extends the advantage of whoever already has more of it. This half-day workshop introduces the Calibrated Neutrality Framework and the PEC Quadrant, a structured tool for assessing patterning, severity, power imbalance, and risk across conflict and abuse cases. Participants will learn how to move beyond generic "high conflict" labels to precise, behavior-based formulations that guide process design, safety planning, and ethical practice — with specific attention to neurodivergent participants and how capacity shifts under stress.
This trauma-informed workshop explores the cumulative impact of vicarious trauma, chronic stress, compassion fatigue, and burnout on professionals working in emotionally demanding environments. Participants will examine how repeated exposure to conflict, trauma narratives, crisis work, and high emotional load can affect cognitive functioning, emotional regulation, professional judgement, and workplace wellbeing. Designed for mediators, helping professionals, leaders, and frontline staff, this training integrates clinical trauma knowledge with practical workforce resilience strategies.
Every Module Grounded in Applied Forensic Work
Patricia Wright brings forensic psychology, family-systems mediation, and protective practice into every curriculum design. These are not awareness modules — they are practitioner tools built from case-level experience.
Formats include live full-day, half-day, and recorded delivery. Continuing education credits are listed per workshop and verified through ATIP's accountability standards.
Schedules, Formats, and Credits — All Listed
Select a workshop, confirm your format, and register directly. ATIP membership is not required to attend, though members receive priority access and discounted rates.