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Trauma-Informed Discipline Training

The strategies that work for neurotypical children often make things worse for trauma-affected kids. This course teaches you a different approach — one rooted in neuroscience, not punishment.

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What You'll Learn
1

Why Traditional Discipline Backfires

Understand how trauma rewires a child's nervous system and why consequences, time-outs, and privilege removal often escalate behavior instead of changing it.

2

The Neuroscience of Big Behaviors

Learn what's actually happening in a dysregulated child's brain — and how that knowledge changes everything about how you respond in the moment.

3

Connection Before Correction

Master the skill of co-regulation: how to use your own calm presence to help a child's nervous system downshift before any learning or correction can happen.

4

Setting Limits Without Power Struggles

Practical scripts and techniques for holding firm boundaries in a warm, non-threatening way that preserves the relationship and doesn't re-traumatize.

5

Natural and Logical Consequences

Know when consequences are appropriate, how to deliver them in a trauma-informed way, and which situations call for connection instead of correction entirely.

6

Building Long-Term Safety Cues

Create the predictable, low-threat environment that allows a trauma-affected child's brain to gradually shift out of survival mode over weeks and months.

Who It's For
  • Foster parents who feel like nothing works and are close to burning out
  • Caregivers whose children have a history of abuse, neglect, or multiple placements
  • Parents managing explosive behaviors that escalate after traditional discipline
  • Anyone who wants to stop fighting and start connecting
  • Foster families preparing for a new placement and wanting to start right
  • Kinship caregivers supporting children through family trauma
What's Included
  • 4 self-paced video modules (approx. 30 min each)
  • Printable behavior response cards you can keep on your fridge
  • Regulation scripts — exact words to use in the hardest moments
  • Printable worksheets for identifying your child's triggers
  • Private community access for questions and peer support
  • Certificate of completion (may count toward training hours)
Course Breakdown
Module 1

Understanding Trauma & the Brain

The neuroscience behind big behaviors, survival states, and why punishment makes things worse.

▶ Video + Worksheet
Module 2

Co-Regulation in Practice

How to use your own nervous system as a tool — and specific scripts for the moments when things go sideways.

▶ Video + Printable Cards
Module 3

Limits, Boundaries & Consequences

Holding firm without escalating. When to use consequences and when connection is the only right response.

▶ Video + Worksheet
Module 4

Building Safety Over Time

Creating the long-term environment that lets a child's nervous system finally relax — and how to track progress.

▶ Video + Tracker