Trauma-Informed Facilitation Training

NeuroTribe UK x Facilitation 101

Trauma-Informed Facilitation Skills

Are you looking to develop your facilitation skills and create safer, more inclusive spaces? 

NeuroTribe UK and Facilitation 101 are partnering to bring you a new training programme designed to help facilitators work in a more trauma-informed way. This course combines in-person workshops with online modules, giving you the knowledge, confidence and practical tools to support groups effectively.

Trauma exists in every group, whether we recognise it or not. As facilitators, we all have different levels of experience in navigating trauma when it arises. This course will help you:

  • Feel more confident facilitating groups, with a range of tools and techniques to support different activities.
  • Deepen your understanding of trauma and how it can show up in group settings.
  • Learn how to work in a trauma-informed way while also looking after your own wellbeing as a facilitator.
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Please note that by signing up, you consent to us sharing your details with Facilitation 101 for course administration purposes only. Full details are outlined in our Data Protection Policy.

Course Fees

Pilot course discount of 15% included in below prices:

  • Individuals who are self-funding: £999+ VAT

  • Voluntary sector organisations or organisations with turnover under £500,000: £1,250+ VAT

  • All other organisations: £1,450+ VAT

We also offer two bursary places per course, each covering 75% of the course fee.

To secure your place, a deposit of £350+ VAT is required.

Course Structure

The training includes a blend of in-person and online workshops, followed by two group supervision and practice sessions. It begins with an online orientation session to meet the team, and other participants followed by two full days of in-person workshops in London focused on trauma-informed facilitation skills. This is complemented by three virtual modules exploring trauma-informed practice, delivered over several weeks. After completing the training, participants will have access to two two-hour group supervision and practice sessions, offering space to reflect, ask questions and apply what they’ve learned in real-world settings.

Training Dates

Orientation (online)
Date TBC

In-person Workshops (London – venue TBC)

  • 25 November 2025, 10:00am – 4:30pm GMT

  • 3 February 2026, 10:00am – 4:30pm GMT

Virtual Modules (online via Zoom)

  • 1 December 2025, 10:00am – 12:00pm GMT

  • 15 December 2025, 10:00am – 12:00pm GMT

  • 19 January 2026, 10:00am – 12:00pm GMT

Group Supervision & Practice Sessions (online via Zoom)

  • 16 February 2026, 10:00am – 12:00pm GMT

  • 16 March 2026, 2:00pm – 4:00pm GMT

Kicking off the training

Your training will begin with a friendly online orientation, where you’ll meet the team and other participants. After that, you’ll take part in a full day of in-person training in London, co-led by Julia Slay from Facilitation 101 and Yasodha and Kyra from Neuro Tribe UK. Together, they’ll introduce the core principles of trauma-informed facilitation, covering areas such as:

Setting the foundations

Exploring how to bring groups together for the first time in a trauma informed way, and putting this into practice within the training group.

We will learn the principles of trauma-informed practice, apply our knowledge of neurodivergent and racialised trauma and explore how to create safe, trauma-informed spaces. We will roleplay the creation of a safe space before thinking about how and where we can apply our learning to our own organizational contexts.

We’ll consider how to design events, workshops and meetings to enable everyone to participate actively, in ways that work for them. We’ll also cover how to respond to challenges such as dominant voices, difficult room layout and tech failures.

We will explore the nature of power, how it has shown up in your life past and present. We will look at power in wider society, in groups you’ve been a part of, and in your relationships with authority figures. We will uncover what you have experienced as empowering and what has been disempowering and reflect on how your own experiences can positively influence your approaches to creating a safe space.

Online modules

After the first day of in-person training, you’ll continue learning through three two-hour online modules, completed on Zoom. These will deepen your understanding of trauma and its impact in group settings.

1. What is trauma (and how can we spot it)?

This module will provide an overview of what trauma actually is, how it occurs, what happens to the brain and body when experiencing trauma, and the ways trauma can impact our thoughts, feelings, behaviours and ways of relating. We will define both traumatic events and relational trauma.

An exploration of experiences of marginalisation and relational abuse that are common to neurodivergent people. We will look at how these experiences can impact thoughts and feelings, and explore behaviours people use to cope. We will also explore the limitations of attachment theory in articulating neurodivergent experiences. 

An exploration of racialised experiences of marginalisation, relational abuse and transgenerational trauma in interpersonal relationships and wider society. We will explore how these experiences can impact thoughts and feelings, and we will explore behaviours people use to cope. We will also briefly revisit ACEs and Attachment theory through the lens of race and ethnicity to become aware of possible strengths and limitations of these theories in relation to race.

Day 2 in person

You’ll then come back together for a second day of in-person training. This session will focus on some of the more challenging aspects of group facilitation, including:

Facilitating difficult dynamics

This section explores what you as a facilitator might find difficult, or challenging when working with groups, and how to respond to these dynamics.

Participants come to workshops with different levels of awareness of their own traumas and how it impacts their behaviours. Conflict between people can sometimes result. In this session, through drama techniques, we will explore frameworks for healing conversations to mediate conflict and encourage mutual empathy between two individuals.

Day two will also include lots of time for consolidating the learning and having some practice spaces to explore your new skills and methods.

Supervision and practice spaces

After the course, you’ll also have access to two 2-hour group drop-in sessions. These are designed to:

  • offer space to reflect on what you’ve learned

  • ask questions that come up as you begin applying your skills

  • talk through challenges or ideas around using the course content in your day-to-day work

The sessions will take place online and will be jointly facilitated by a member of the Facilitation 101 and Neuro Tribe UK teams.

By booking your place or enquiring about the course, you acknowledge that you are giving us permission to share your data with Facilitation 101 for the purposes of this course only. You can view the relevant section in our Data Protection Policy (see 4.1: Information sharing with third parties shall only be conducted with the prior written consent of the data subject).

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