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The Academy of Inner Science & Mobius Executive Leadership present:

Foundations of Trauma-Informed Coaching & Consulting

with Thomas Hübl and Amy Elizabeth Fox

An self-paced online training for coaches, consultants, group facilitators, and HR professionals who want to bring greater presence, depth, and trauma-informed awareness to their work with leaders and teams.

Approved for 22 hours of Continuing Coach Education credits by the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

Sponsoring & Contributing Organizations

A Special Invitation from Thomas Hübl and Amy Elizabeth Fox

Dear friends,

Something has shifted in our work as coaches and consultants, and most of us feel it.

Ongoing uncertainty, economic instability, and political polarization have changed how leaders and teams work together. Beneath the goal-setting, strategy, and performance conversations, stress and fear now drive how your clients think, respond, and make decisions.

Yet this level of strain and trauma is rarely acknowledged or addressed in professional settings.

And more often than not, you are the one expected to recognize and respond to the dynamics shaping your clients’ behavior.

But you may find yourself wondering:

How do I stay grounded when a client becomes reactive or overwhelmed?
How do I intervene without escalating emotion or damaging trust?
How do I address trauma without overstepping my role?

If you have felt this tension, you are not alone.

What this moment requires is not more tools, but greater capacity—the ability to meet what is emerging in your clients with discernment and steadiness, while maintaining trust and clear professional boundaries.

That is why we created this 8-module training: Foundations of Trauma-Informed Coaching & Consulting.

Here is an overview of the curriculum:

Session 1: Understanding the Nature and Origins of Trauma
Session 2: Supporting Your Clients Through Complexity and Chaos
Session 3: Trauma Symptoms in Organizations and Paths to Repair
Session 4: Self as Instrument: Trauma-Informed Client Work
Session 5: Interdependence and the Expanded Trauma Map
Session 6: Transformational Leadership in Complex Group Dynamics
Session 7: Working with Group Dynamics Plus Case Consultations
Session 8: Putting the Principles Into Practice

This program helps you bring a trauma-informed lens to coaching and consulting. It teaches you to approach the work not as therapy, but as a disciplined and practical way to recognize how stress and past experiences shape leadership behavior, team dynamics, and organizational culture.

Inside this training, you’ll deepen the distinctly human capacities at the heart of this work—the ability to stay present and attuned under pressure—so that trust holds and real change can take root.

In a world that is changing faster than our methodologies and models can keep up with, presence and coherence are not secondary to the work. They are the very foundation of the work.

We warmly invite you to become part of a committed group of practitioners helping to shape a new era of trauma-informed practice in our work.

In appreciation,

Thomas Hübl

Founder, Academy of Inner Science

Amy Elizabeth Fox

Co-Founder & CEO of Mobius Executive Leadership

Join us before Session 2 on May 7.

“Leadership in the 21st century is not about directing or controlling people—it’s about holding space where we can meet the unknown.”

— Thomas Hübl

“You can’t support others through their edges if you don’t know how to be with yours — that’s what leadership really requires.”

— Amy Elizabeth Fox

You Are the Instrument

Most coaching and consulting training emphasize skills, frameworks, and techniques. This program begins with a different premise: YOU are the primary instrument of your work. Your inner state shapes how you listen and respond, and whether you can guide people toward their most powerful, creative, and productive outcomes.

Inner work strengthens your capacity to stay grounded and open under pressure, so you can respond rather than react. It helps you see more clearly what is unfolding, recognize the underlying dynamics, and remain both candid and kind.

In this short video, Thomas and Amy explore why being a trauma-informed coach means understanding trauma as an intelligent, adaptive response that, when met with compassion, unlocks the deeper transformation that leaders and organizations truly need.

Is this the right training for you?

This program is designed for practicing professionals who work with leaders, teams, and organizations—and who want to bring trauma-informed relational awareness and greater depth to that work.

It will be most relevant if you are:

A coach, consultant, facilitator, or HR leader working with senior leaders, executive teams, or complex organizations
Working in mission-driven nonprofit or public-sector settings where burnout risk is high, resources are limited, and the work carries concrete human consequences
Noticing that the conversations in your work have become more emotionally complex, harder to navigate, or less responsive to conventional approaches
Wanting to work with trauma dynamics ethically and responsibly—without crossing into clinical territory
Committed to your own inner development as the foundation of your professional work
Ready to integrate trauma-informed perspectives into your existing practice in a way that is disciplined, practical, and clearly within your professional scope

This program is not clinical training. Professionals with a clinical background who also work in coaching or organizational settings are welcome.

It’s not too late to join us before Session 2 on May 7.

Foundations of Trauma-Informed Coaching & Consulting

Led by Thomas Hübl and Amy Elizabeth Fox

Each module includes approximately 2 hours of recorded teaching, plus downloadable audio, transcript, and supplementary materials

Course Session #1:

Understanding the Nature and Origins of Trauma

with Thomas Hübl

This opening session establishes the core trauma literacy required for professional practice. We will examine the nervous system foundations of trauma, the nature of regulation and dysregulation, and the developmental role of trauma responses in shaping adult behavior.

Participants will explore how trauma manifests not only as symptoms, but within relationships, and why understanding of these dynamics is essential in coaching and consulting contexts.

Key Topics Covered

Nervous system dynamics and regulation
Trauma responses: fight, flight, freeze, fawn
Reframing trauma within human development
Recognizing trauma symptoms
Trauma in relational contexts
Co-regulation and relational resources
Distinguishing trauma-based cultural norms from healthy, emergent ones

Tools, Methods, and Practice

Self-regulation assessment
Body-centered regulation practices
Moment-to-moment relational attunement practice

Course Session #2:

Supporting Your Clients Through Complexity and Chaos

with Amy Elizabeth Fox

This session turns toward leadership under pressure. We examine the adaptive demands facing executives and organizations in an era shaped by rapid technological change, systemic instability, and increasing polarization. Rather than treating leadership challenges as purely strategic problems, this module explores the developmental capacities required to navigate complexity without collapsing into reactivity.

We will look closely at how leaders make meaning, how resistance to change often reflects unexamined loss, and how coaches and consultants can support developmental growth in individuals and systems. The focus is not on leadership style, but on cultivating the internal capacities that allow leaders to hold ambiguity, metabolize feedback, and guide teams through uncertainty with greater coherence.

Key Topics Covered

Adaptive leadership and the distinction between technical and adaptive challenges
Psychological safety and developmental cultures
BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Non-linear, Incomprehensible) — a framework for the current state of organizational life
Three Tasks of Leadership: Renewal, Restoration, and Renaissance
Practical competencies for managing through chaos: pattern-sensing, rapid prototyping, sense-making/narrative-making, widened attention, nervous-system regulation

Tools, Methods, and Practice

Developmental reflection frameworks
Leadership meaning-making assessment prompts
The Life Narratives exercise
Structured feedback practices for executive teams
Small-group dialogue exploring adaptive dilemmas

Course Session #3:

Trauma Symptoms in Organizations and Paths to Repair

with Amy Elizabeth Fox

This session focuses on how trauma manifests in leadership behavior, team dynamics, and organizational culture. We examine patterns such as regression, numbness, over-control, urgency, and disengagement, and how these dynamics can quietly shape decision-making and collaboration.

We will explore how coaches and consultants can recognize these patterns in real time and intervene in ways that strengthen relational safety, accountability, and coherence. The emphasis is on practical repair — creating environments where difficult conversations, feedback, and emotional intensity can be metabolized rather than avoided or amplified.

Key Topics Covered

Executive derailers linked to unresolved trauma patterns
Fear, urgency, and disengagement in team systems
Trauma fog and dysfunctional group dynamics
Counter-dependence and resistance to authority
Psychological safety and candid relational mirroring
Repair processes for stuck or high-conflict teams
Translating healing work into business language

Tools, Methods, and Practice

Case clinic on team dysfunction and intervention strategy
Emotional attunement and co-regulation practices
Trust and relational safety exercises
Designing repair-oriented team conversations

Course Session #4:

Self as Instrument: Trauma-Informed Client Work

with Thomas Hübl

In client work, the inner state of the professional matters. This session deepens the understanding that we are the primary instrument in coaching and consulting, and that unresolved triggers, blind spots, and compensatory patterns influence how we perceive and respond to clients.

We will examine how to strengthen self-regulation, discernment, and relational attunement so that our interventions arise from grounded presence rather than reactivity. The focus is on professional maturity — increasing the capacity to host intensity, hold boundaries, and remain steady in complex client dynamics.

Key Topics Covered

Triggers and reactive responses in professional practice
Trauma-resource profiles and integration work
Relational attunement in one-on-one and team settings
The five dimensions of holding space
Boundaries and scope in trauma-informed coaching
The role of supervision in ongoing development

Tools, Methods, and Practice

Personal trauma-resource mapping
3-Sync practice
Body-based resourcing exercise for nervous system stability
Structured self-inquiry for identifying integration edges

Course Session #5:

Interdependence and the Expanded Trauma Map

with Thomas Hübl and Amy Elizabeth Fox

This session widens the frame from individual and team patterns to the broader relational ecosystem. We’ll explore how intergenerational and collective trauma influence leadership, culture, and organizational design, often in ways that remain invisible but deeply operative.

Participants will examine how defense mechanisms function within systems, how cultural conditioning shapes perception, and how to map relational patterns without pathologizing individuals. The emphasis is on increasing systemic awareness and strengthening the capacity to work skillfully within complex social fields.

Key Topics Covered

Intergenerational and collective trauma patterns
Ecosystemic defense mechanisms in organizations
Cultural conditioning and inherited narratives
Mapping trauma across relational systems
Reframing defenses as adaptive responses
Reframing “professional distance”

Tools, Methods, and Practice

Context and ecosystem mapping exercises
Reflective inquiry into inherited patterns – Trauma Map journaling exercise
Guided exploration of collective influences on client systems

Course Session #6:

Transformational Leadership in Complex Group Dynamics

with Thomas Hübl, Amy Elizabeth Fox, and Karen Simms

This session integrates trauma literacy with group process leadership. We examine how individual and collective trauma shape group dynamics, authority relationships, and conflict patterns in teams and organizations.

The focus is on strengthening the capacity to hold groups with steadiness and clarity — building coherence without suppressing difference, and supporting meaningful dialogue without escalating fragmentation. We will explore how to slow group processes when needed, promote relational presence, and guide teams through moments of tension and polarization.

Key Topics Covered

How ACEs, historical trauma, and “trauma and social location” connect individual patterns to systemic conditions
Authority dynamics and projections in teams
Trauma activation in group conflict
Navigating polarization and fragmentation
The hidden costs of high-functioning adaptation
Building resilient and restorative team cultures

Tools, Methods, and Practice

Group attunement exercises
Structured dialogue methodologies
Conflict navigation frameworks
Practices for slowing pace and increasing coherence

Course Session #7:

Working with Group Dynamics Plus Case Consultation

with Thomas Hübl and Amy Elizabeth Fox

This session continues the work on group dynamics within teams and organizations. We look more closely at how trauma patterns influence collective behavior, how authority and resistance influence group interactions, and how to respond when conflict or reactivity emerges.

The second half of the session is devoted to a case consultation, where Thomas and Amy work directly with a real-world coaching and consulting challenge.

Through this case dialogue, they explore how to recognize and address persistent relational patterns and how to maintain professional boundaries in demanding organizational contexts.

Key Topics Covered

Trauma patterns in group and team behavior
Working with authority, projection, and resistance in collective settings
Using grounded, business-relevant language to invite clients into transformational work
Naming patterns without pathologizing clients or team members
Guidelines for distinguishing coaching from therapy
Applied case consultation in coaching and consulting contexts

Course Session #8:

Putting the Principles Into Practice

with Thomas Hübl and Amy Elizabeth Fox

In this final session, Thomas and Amy bring the full arc of the training into application—integrating trauma literacy, group dynamics, authority responses, collective patterns, and professional scope into coherent practice.

The session includes a case consultation, where Thomas and Amy work directly with a real-world coaching and consulting challenge.

The emphasis is on synthesis: how the principles explored throughout the course inform your judgment, language, and presence in ongoing coaching and consulting work.

Key Topics Covered

Bringing nervous system awareness into executive and team contexts
Working across individual, team, and organizational levels simultaneously
Five-part transformational facilitation framework: field-setting, emotional resonance, holding the container, emergent attunement, and alchemy
Integrating trauma-informed approaches into ongoing coaching and consulting engagements

Enroll before Session 2 on May 7.

Spotlight Sessions

Three additional teaching sessions led by guest facilitators explore critical challenges coaches and consultants encounter in their practice.

Spotlight Session #1:

Developmental Implications for Coaches and Consultants Applying Trauma-Informed Practices

with Lisa Lahey, Ed.D.

This session explores how coaches and consultants can apply trauma-informed practices in ways that are responsive to the differing developmental capacities of the adults they support. We’ll examine how clients predictably relate to authority, feedback, and support in different ways depending on their stage of development, and how this shapes what is experienced as safe, threatening, or useful.

The session offers practical ways to tailor interventions so they are both trauma-sensitive and developmentally appropriate, increasing the likelihood of growth rather than unintended distress.

Spotlight session #2:

Restoring Flow: The Trauma-Informed Practitioner’s Stance

with Jennifer Cohen & Gina LaRoche

In this session, we explore what it means to be trauma-informed across individual, team, and collective contexts, including the distinction between being a trauma-informed practitioner and doing trauma processing—grounding in a clear sense of our role, scope, and limits. During the session, we will:

Learn co-regulation practices that can be brought directly into client spaces.
Engage the “Seven Stones” through a trauma-informed lens, including how to embody these values and navigate ruptures within systems.
Look directly at racialized trauma. Every group has been racialized in some way; understanding how this shapes individual experience, team dynamics, and culture is essential to trauma-informed practice.

Spotlight Session #3:

Supporting Mission-Driven Public and Social Sector Leaders

with Kyle Dietrich

This session examines how trauma-informed principles apply in frontline public sector and social impact work. Service-oriented leaders carry not only organizational stress, but moral responsibility, vicarious trauma, sustained adaptive pressure, and identities that are often under threat. Topics include:

- Understanding service as an identity and the unique challenges mission-driven leaders face of balancing service of others with service of self
- Strategies for reframing service as an expression of embodied consciousness and emphasizing that the quality of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor
- Examining how emotions, empathy, and moral injury shape leadership behavior in mission-driven organizations

Bonus:

Recorded Presentations from Guest Experts

Recorded teachings from renowned experts in trauma, organizational development, and collective dynamics. These talks add greater depth and context to the program’s central themes.

Dr. Christina Bethell, Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Relational Systems Change Agent: Trauma-Informed Organizational Transformation
Dr. Dan Siegel, Executive Director of Mindsight Institute: Practical Applications of Interpersonal Neurobiology
Dr. Michelle Brody, Executive Coach and Clinical Psychologist: Trauma-Informed Approaches to Team Dynamics
Zander Grashaw, Author, Artist, Founder & CEO of Adaptive Leadership: Implementing Adaptive Change in Organizations and Communities
Bob Anderson, Chief Knowledge Officer and Founder of Leadership Circle: The Psychology and Science of Leadership Development

PROGRAM SUMMARY

Foundations of Trauma-Informed Coaching & Consulting

8 Training Sessions with Thomas Hübl & Amy Elizabeth Fox
Each session includes recorded teachings, guided practices, and Q&A. Two sessions include case consultations, where Thomas and Amy work directly with real coaching and consulting challenges.
Spotlight Sessions
Three additional sessions by guest facilitators exploring critical challenges coaches and consultants encounter in their practice. Led by Kyle Dietrich, Jennifer Cohen & Gina LaRoche, and Lisa Lahey, Ed.D.
Bonus: Presentations from Guest Experts
Recorded teaching from experts and leaders in the fields of trauma, organizational development, and collective healing.
Downloadable Recordings & Materials
Audio • Transcripts • Supplemental materials
Certificate of Completion
Students who complete the course will receive a Certificate of Completion, which fulfills the prerequisite for the Trauma-Informed Coaching & Consulting Level II certificate program.
International Coaching Federation CCEs
Students who complete the course may earn up to 22 hours of Continuing Coach Education (CCE) credits, applicable toward the renewal requirements of an International Coaching Federation (ICF) credential.

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“The foundation of establishing your trauma-informed leadership lies in cultivating and deepening your presence.”