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S5 E2 Mapping Trauma Travels: How Ripples Become Culture


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The Ripple Beneath
Exploring nervous system leadership, emotional regulation, and the hidden forces shaping behaviour, conflict and culture.
Mapping Trauma Travels: How Ripples Become Culture
In this episode, Jai Byrne continues the journey beneath behaviour, revealing how trauma travels through nervous systems and becomes embedded in culture. From overwhelmed teachers to withdrawn students, we explore why unless someone interrupts the ripple, bullying and exclusion become normalised.
Welcome back to The Ripple Beneath, a podcast exploring the hidden patterns that shape behaviour, conflict and culture — and how nervous system leadership can disrupt cycles of harm and create generational repair.
In episode one, we asked a confronting question: what if bullying isn’t the problem, but a symptom? Today, we go deeper.
Jyee Byrne (Founder, Wolfpack Support Services) takes us into the concept of "trauma travels" — the way nervous systems pass down fear, absence, control, and survival patterns generationally and environmentally. From parents wired by their own childhoods, to teachers overwhelmed and dysregulated, to students internalising power as protection — these ripples become culture when left unchecked.
We unpack:
Why systems sustain bullying without meaning to
How micro-moments and tolerations become norms
The silent ripples: shutdown, withdrawal, and emotional detachment
Reflection prompt included: Where in your world are ripples being sustained right now — in the small moments, the tolerations, and the cultural norms?
True leadership begins when we stop swimming in the ripple and start interrupting it.
Jyee Byrne (Founder, Wolfpack Support Services)
trauma-informed leadership, nervous system, culture, exclusion, bullying prevention, emotional regulation, generational trauma, psychosocial recovery, education systems, behaviour management, teacher support, parent education
For more resources or to find help for your school or organisation, visit wolfpackwell-being.com.
Content Warnings (if needed)
Open discussion about trauma, exclusion, emotional dysregulation and bullying. This is for educational and reflection purposes only and is not a substitute for clinical intervention.
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