ABOUT THE PROGRAM
2 Days | 4 Hours | 100% Online
November 9th & 12th, 2025
Take your coaching to the next level! This TIWL training helps equip coaches and trainers with trauma-informed skills to design, cue, and deliver strength and movement programming that builds client regulation, resilience, and empowerment. This training deepens TIWL Foundations with live practice, embodied metaphors, and applied program design for coaching contexts.
This Specialty Training Includes:
- TIWL Foundations self-paced course ($297 value)
- 2 Live, interactive training sessions (4 hrs total)
- Sample trauma-informed program templates
- New approaches to therapeutic dosing
- Population Specific programming
Already Certified? This updated training includes new content and approaches to expand your skills and programming methods.
TIWL Certificate Holders receive a discount! Check your email by 10/15 for the code.
Training Dates
& Times
Live training times don't work for your busy schedule? No worries - recordings will be updated in the course 48 hours after the training.
All course content is available for 60 days starting from the date of the first live session.
Session One - Nov 9
Objectives: Scope, Metaphor & Regulation - Embodied Metaphor & Support Strategies
Instructors: Candace Liger, Jo Hazell-Watkins
Coaches leave with clarity on their role, ethical scope, and embodied tools to integrate regulation and metaphor into their practice.
Session Two - Nov 12
Objectives: Program Design & Cueing
Instructors: Brandon Chien, & Maggie Tappitake
Coaches leave with practical skills in designing TIWL-informed programs and cueing clients in a way that builds trust, autonomy, and resilience.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- Embody trauma-informed coaching principles by understanding ethical scope, consent practices, and referral pathways within the TIWL framework.
- Use embodied metaphor, therapeutic dosing, and cueing to support client regulation, reflection, and resilience—translating physical practice into tools for emotional and psychological capacity building.
- Design and program trauma-informed programs that balance progressive overload with client autonomy, pacing, and empowerment.
- Develop strategies for collaboration between mental health providers, fitness professionals, and clients in support of embodied trauma recovery.
- Recognize and honor your scope of practice by examining personal narratives, biases, and emotional responses that arise in coaching work—developing strategies for self-regulation, supervision, and sustainable support as a trauma-informed coach.
A NOTE ABOUT LEARNING VERSUS HEALING
This program is for professional development and learning. We recognize that although many of us may have experiences of trauma, the time we spend together will not be an intervention for our own individual healing. Talking and learning about trauma, even in the context of a training, can be triggering.
Join us for two days of learning, practice, and connection.
Step into a new way of supporting clients — one that honors the body, builds safety, and transforms strength into a healing practice.
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