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Trauma-Informed Professional Development
Supporting the People Who Support Young People
Understanding What’s Underneath the Behavior
Behavior tells us something.
Our trauma-informed professional development helps educators and youth-serving professionals look beyond “What’s wrong with them?” and begin asking better questions about what may be influencing the behavior they’re seeing.
Participants explore how trauma and adverse experiences can affect emotions, relationships, learning, communication and behavior — while also examining how our own responses can either help de-escalate a situation or unintentionally make it harder.
Understanding trauma doesn’t mean removing expectations or accountability. It means having more information about what may be happening underneath the behavior so we can respond more effectively.
Available for: Schools, districts, educators, school staff and youth-serving organizations
Supporting the People Who Support Young People
Supporting the People Who Support Young People
Caring about young people doesn’t automatically prepare us for everything they may bring into the room.
Educators, mentors, coaches and youth-serving professionals are often supporting young people through challenges that extend far beyond academics or programming.
Our professional development helps adults strengthen their understanding of emotional wellness, behavior, communication, relationships, boundaries and the experiences that can shape how young people show up.
The goal is to equip the adults doing the work with greater understanding and practical ways to create environments where young people can feel supported while expectations, structure and accountability remain intact.
Available for: Educators, mentors, coaches, after-school staff, recreation professionals, youth organizations and community-based programs
Professional Development for the Real Challenges Teams Are Facing
Every team is different — and sometimes the training you need doesn’t fit neatly under one title.
Healing Not Hurting University offers professional development and workshops addressing areas such as:
Trauma-Informed Practices
Understanding the impact of trauma and responding with greater awareness.
Communication & Conflict
Strengthening communication, navigating difficult interactions and responding more intentionally when emotions are high.
Emotional Wellness
Helping professionals understand the importance of their own emotional wellness while supporting others.
Working With Youth & Families
Strengthening relationships and communication with the children, teens and families professionals serve.
Healing-Centered Workplace & Organizational Culture
Exploring how communication, relationships, emotional safety and organizational practices affect the people inside our spaces.
Training can be customized around the needs, challenges and goals of your team.
When the Conversation Gets Heavy Behind the Chair
Wellness-Centered Training for Beauty Professionals
People don’t only bring their hair appointments into the salon.
They bring breakups. Grief. Family problems. Parenting stress. Anxiety. Trauma. Major life changes. And sometimes things they haven’t said anywhere else.
Beauty professionals often become trusted listeners. But being trusted with someone’s story doesn’t automatically mean knowing what to do with everything they share — or how to keep from carrying it home.
Healing Not Hurting University offers wellness-centered training for beauty professionals around healthy boundaries, communication, emotional wellness, difficult conversations and recognizing when someone may need support beyond what we can provide.
Created by a licensed cosmetologist with firsthand understanding of the beauty industry and years of experience in trauma-informed education and facilitation, this training understands both sides of the chair.
You don’t have to become your client’s therapist to be a safe person in their life.
And you don’t have to carry everyone else’s pain to care.
Available for: Salons, salon suites, beauty schools, cosmetology programs and beauty industry organizations
Bring HNH University to Your Beauty Community
Your Team May Need Something Different
Not every challenge fits neatly under a training title.
Healing Not Hurting University works with schools and organizations to develop professional learning experiences around the needs they’re seeing within their staff, students, clients or community.
Training topics, length and format can be customized based on your audience and goals.
Tell us what’s happening.
Let’s talk about what your people need.
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Built From Work in Real Rooms
Our professional development isn’t built around theory alone.
Healing Not Hurting University has facilitated trauma-informed and healing-centered learning experiences with educators, school staff, parents and community partners — with participant feedback helping us continue to strengthen the work.
We pay attention to whether people felt engaged, whether the information connected to their experiences and, most importantly, whether they walked away with something they can use.