A Trauma-Informed Future

If we want to create a trauma-informed future, we have to hold the vision...together. In the season two finale of A Trauma-Informed Future podcast, host Katie Kurtz reflects on the past year, expresses gratitude to the listeners and guests, and shares highlights of the most popular episodes. She emphasizes the importance of trauma-informed care as a capacity-building and healing-informed approach rooted in social justice frameworks. Katie shares a compliation of how guests from 2023 answered the question, "what does a trauma-informed future looks like to you?".  

Stay tuned for season 3 launching in early 2024! 

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We can’t separate the personal from the professional, and why should we?  In today’s episode, Katie is in conversation with The Business Therapist Nicole Lewis-Keeber who helps us better understand the profound connection between our emotional well-being and our business endeavors. She shares insights on the unique relationship between trauma and entrepreneurship, including ways past patterns can echo through professional interactions, and practical steps to healing and growth through self-awareness and self-compassion. Adding to this rich dialogue, Nicole brings her experience training with Brené Brown, applying frameworks such as Dare to Lead to advocate for vulnerability and strong ethics in business. Throughout our conversation, we'll unpack the myriad ways in which trauma-informed care can revolutionize not just how we lead, but how we live, promising an inclusive and empowering future. Join us as we explore the liberating power of integrating trauma consciousness in leadership, the workplace, and beyond, paving the way for a future where trauma-informed care becomes second nature. This promises to be an episode that speaks to the heart of transformation in both personal and professional spheres.

Connect with Nicole Lewis-Keeber:

• Website: https://nicole.lewis-keeber.com
• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/nicole.lewiskeeber/
• Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/nicolelewiskeebercoaching
• LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolelewiskeeber/
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebusinesstherapist
• Trauma and Entrepreneurship Connection Masterclass

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Trauma-informed care is both an individual and collective approach. It is about going within to shift not only how we see but relate to ourselves and others. It’s about embracing our wholeness. But what if our wholeness includes identities and cultures that have been intentionally marginalized and colonized? In today's episode, Katie is in conversation with coach and trainer, Shirin Eskandani about how trauma-informed care and decolonization are tandem practices. As an experienced coach and coach trainer, Shirin shares how she is creating a more ethical, decolonized, and trauma-informed future for the coaching industry. This episode reminds us that the road to a decolonized, trauma-informed future is an ongoing journey of collective learning and unlearning.

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• Website: https://www.wholehearted-coaching.com/ 
• Instagram:  @wholeheartedcoaching @wholeheartedcoachingcertification
• Podcast: Whole Hearted Coaching Podcast
• Whole Hearted Coaching Certification -currently accepting applications for the Jan and Sept 2024 cohorts of the certification

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As human care professionals, we usually focus our time on delivering services, promoting our services and maintaining a business. But there is one key element that is essential to your profession that often goes missing. That element is the role of supervision.   In today's episode, Katie is in conversation with master coach and her own supervisor, Sas Petherick. Sas helps us better understand the difference between supervision and mentorship as well as highlighting the importance of supervision as it relates to building our competency, confidence and capacity as leaders. This episode is full of helpful resources and supportive tips on how to find a supervisor and what to look for in supervision so you can ensure you are nurturing your integrity, ethics and capacity as a professional working with other humans.

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• Sas’ Website
• Instagram: @saspetherick
• Self Belief School-Self-belief School is a rich and supportive coaching program like no other. You’ll be fully supported to heal the root causes of your Self-doubt, untangle from protective beliefs, and develop healthy internal resources. I want to help you discover who you are underneath your self-doubt. Enrol anytime. 
• Self Belief Coaching Academy -Self-belief Coaching Academy is a six-month advanced program for experienced practitioners (coaches, therapists, counselors and mentors) who want to support clients through self-doubt. Evidence-based, trauma-informed, and ICF-accredited, graduates have called this the best investment they've ever made in their coaching practice.
• Courage and Spice Podcast-#1 Podcast for Humans with Self-Doubt

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This is a pause week on the podcast as Katie gets ready to celebrate her wedding!  Instead of a full episode, today is more of a reminder and invitation for all of us to practice the pause. Practicing the pause is a way for us to literally press pause and slow things down. In a culture of unnecessary urgency and being surrounded by our own stress and witnessing collective trauma, we can all benefit from this practice. In this invitation, Katie shares a little about this simple but powerful, trauma-informed micropractice. We will be back November 21st with an all new episodes! 

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 Our bodies are brilliant and they are designed to keep us safe and to protect us so that we survive every day. So how often are we listening to the wisdom of our bodies? And more importantly, how do we even know how to listen, especially if we've experienced trauma or toxic stress? In this episode, Katie is in conversation with her colleague and friend Alyssa Chang on how to make neuroscience more approachable so we can find which healing pathways are best for us. Alyssa offers valuable insights on how to build a more connected relationship between our brains and bodies.

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• Website: www.coachalyssachang.com 
• Instagram: @coachalyssachang 
• Brain Better Membership - A private membership and resource library to helping you learn how to work with your body from a neuroscience lens. 
• Better Expert - A 6-month group coaching program where we equip you with tools rooted in neuroscience, so you can move towards your goal with your body instead of against your body.

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It's almost become hyperbolic to talk about the times we are in. “These times” encompassing these intensified few years including the historical traumas of a global pandemic, wars, genocide, human rights violations, and more. There are so many events and environments both globally and in our own backyard that are inducing trauma and toxic stress both on an individual and collective level. In today’s episode, I am acknowledging the reality of the collective trauma we exist in and the varying levels of impact is having on us individually and as a collective. I am sharing five trauma-informed considerations you can easily adopt in your personal and/or professional spaces as you show up and lead during these times of collective trauma.  We do not need to be experts in world affairs to care about what's happening to our neighbors both in our own communities and across the world. 

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How do we create a trauma-informed future if we don’t know who to trust or better yet, know how to trust ourselves? In today’s episode, I am delighted to be in conversation with my colleague and trauma-informed trail blazer, Julie Johnson.  Julie is the co-founder of the Integrate Network, a Learning & UX Designer and one of my favorite humans to co-create a trauma-informed vision with.  Julie shares not just why but how vetting is an essential practice for creating social impact and reducing harm systematically. We discuss the benefits of learning how to self-vet as a way to lay the groundwork for harm reduction and to build a more structured vetting process for trauma-informed leadership to thrive.  This is a must listen for anyone who wants to play an active role in creating a trauma-informed future. 

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We talk a lot about the importance of personal boundaries but how often are you assessing, communicating and leading within your professional boundaries?  In today’s episode, Katie is discussing the topic of setting professional boundaries and how it is an essential trauma-informed practice.  You need to be able to understand your capacity as a professional in order to set those boundaries.   This episode is full of helpful information to better understand what your professional boundaries (aka scope of practice) are and includes steps in which you can take to set professional boundaries.  This is a must listen episode for anyone who finds themselves wanting to be able to support people in their role without overstepping or possibly causing harm. 

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Have you heard of the concept of big T and little t trauma?  In this episode, Katie is going to break down what this concept means and why it exists. She is then going to share why she no longer believes in or teaches this concept.  This episode invites us to embrace nuance to honor the varying impact levels of trauma while simulataneously understanding how hierarchy promotes more exclusion. Kick off season 2 of the podcast with this informative and nuanced conversation! 

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