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Incorporating TIWL into Mental Health Care

A Training for Mental Health Providers

NEXT TRAINING DATES + FORMAT:

August 9, 2024 | 8am-12pm PST
100% ONLINE

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Weight lifting is an embodied experience that allows trauma survivors to transform physical strength into emotional healing

Weight lifting is an embodied experience that allows trauma survivors to transform physical strength into emotional healing.

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2 Days | 4 Hours | 100% Online


November 9th & 12th, 2025

Take your coaching to the next level! Our 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
  • Cueing language guide
  • Embodied metaphor worksheets

TIWL Certificate Holders receive a discount!  Check your email by 10/15 for the code. 

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Training Dates
& Times

Please clear your calendar of any scheduling conflicts prior to registering, unexpected circumstances aside.

The live sessions will be recorded. All course content is available for 60 days from the date of the first session.

Sunday, November 9th

10:00am - 12:00pm CST / 11am - 1:00pm EST


Wednesday, November 12th

6:00pm - 8:00pm CST / 7:00pm - 9:00pm EST


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Monday, December 9th

4p - 6:30p PST / 7p - 9:30p EST


Tuesday, December 11th

4p - 6:30p PST / 7p - 9:30p EST


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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.

MEET YOUR INSTRUCTORS

MEET YOUR INSTRUCTORS

Candace Liger

 Trauma Informed Weight Lifting, Program Director

NASM-SPS CE | she/they

Jo Hazell-Watkins

The Soma Space, Co-Founder

L3 PT, Exercise on Referral | she/her

Brandon Chien

The Art of Self-Alignment, Owner

TI-CPT, Strength Coach | he/him

Maggie Tappitake

Occupational Therapist
 
MSOT, NBCOT, OTR/L | she/her

Candace Liger

Trauma Informed Weight Lifting, Program Director

NASM-SPS CE | she/they

Jo Hazell-Watkins

The Soma Space, Co-Founder

L3 PT, Exercise on Referral | she/her

Brandon Chien

The Art of Self-Alignment, Owner

TI-CPT, Strength Coach | he/him

Maggie Tappitake

Occupational Therapist
 
MSOT, NBCOT, OTR/L | she/her

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

  • Define and embody trauma-informed coaching principles by understanding ethical scope, consent practices, and referral pathways within the TIWL framework.
  • Use embodied metaphor and movement to support client regulation, reflection, and resilience—translating physical practice into tools for emotional and psychological capacity building.
  • Recognize signs of dysregulation and apply nervous system–based strategies that promote safety, presence, and trust within coaching sessions.
  • Design and cue 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.
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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.

2 Day Intensive for Coaches & Trainers

Take your coaching to the next level! Our 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 (included in tuition) with live practice, embodied metaphors, and applied program design for coaching contexts.

$495.00 USD
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2 Day Intensive for Coaches & Trainers

Take your coaching to the next level! Our 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 (included in tuition) with live practice, embodied metaphors, and applied program design for coaching contexts.

2 weekly payments of $250.00 USD
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