Trauma & Communication

  • Communication.

    Communication ensures that we get our needs met. They need to be met with the most positive and least negative consequences for the short and long term.

  • Trauma.

    When things that overwhelm us happen, our brain puts survival ahead of communication. If it happens often enough, this becomes our normal. How to catch up on missed skills?

  • The mix.

    Every time an infant, child, youth, adult or elder experiences something traumatic, their resources are diverted to survival. Development of skills stalls. Mastering more communication skills reduces the impact of trauma.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    About Communication

    • Navigating this course
    • Overview
    • Some of the challenges
    • Where communication occurs
  • 2

    How Traumatic Events Change Communication

    • Your brain
    • Day to day communication
    • During a traumatic event
    • Consequences
  • 3

    Elements of open communication

    • The five skills of emotional intelligence
    • Self-awareness
    • Self-regulation
    • Social awareness
    • Social (or relationship) skills
    • Empathy
  • 4

    What makes us shut down communication

    • Lack of skill
    • Stress
    • Isolation
    • Fear
    • Word choice
    • Dissociation
  • 5

    Techniques for opening communication

    • Tool: Time log with talk
    • Tool: Word swap
    • Tool: Rephrasing phrases
    • Tool: Vocabulary boost
    • Tool: Ball toss
    • Tool: Theater
    • Tool: Etiquette classes

Pricing options

By itself, this course is $74.69. It's included in several bundles!

Communication. It's lifesaving.

Learning non-traumatized communication and practicing it means change. It's all about the relationships.

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