✔ Trauma-informed without being clinical
✔ Grounded in nervous system education
✔ Accessible, engaging, and practical
✔ Designed for real people with real stress
✔ No forced vulnerability or “toxic positivity”

Participants leave with tools they can actually use — not just information.

Professional Development Workshops

Trauma-Informed Practice

An honest, accessible look at how trauma impacts behavior, communication, and performance — and how to respond with clarity instead of frustration.

Key topics include:

• How trauma shows up in the workplace or classroom

• Understanding stress responses and behavior

• Creating safer, more supportive environments

• Reducing burnout and reactivity

Burnout, Boundaries, & Nervous System Regulation

Why burnout isn’t a personal failure — and why traditional self-care often doesn’t work.

Participants will learn:

• How chronic stress impacts the nervous system

• Early signs of burnout and overload

• Boundary-setting without guilt

• Sustainable regulation strategies for daily life

Compassion Fatigue & Secondary Trauma

For helping professionals who are emotionally invested in their work and feeling depleted.

This workshop explores:

• The difference between empathy, compassion fatigue, and burnout

• How emotional labor accumulates in the body

• Regulation strategies for high-impact roles

• Reconnecting to purpose without overgiving

De-Escalation & Emotional Regulation Skills

Practical tools for responding to dysregulation, conflict, or emotional intensity with calm and confidence.

Focus areas include:

• Understanding escalation through a nervous system lens

• Staying regulated under pressure

• Verbal and non-verbal de-escalation strategies

• Maintaining boundaries during difficult interactions

Trauma-Informed Leadership

For supervisors, managers, and team leads who want healthy, effective teams without fear-based management.

Topics include:

• Leading with clarity and emotional safety

• Preventing burnout within teams

• Supporting staff through stress and transition

• Balancing accountability with compassion

Wellness & Skill-Building Workshops

Understanding Your Nervous System

A foundational workshop explaining how stress, anxiety, and regulation actually work — in clear, human language.

Participants gain:

• A basic understanding of stress responses

• Insight into their own patterns

• Tools to support regulation in everyday life

• Language to better understand emotional reactions

Emotional Regulation for Overwhelmed Adults

For people who feel emotionally maxed out and need tools that work in the moment.

Includes:

• Body-based regulation strategies

• Managing emotional overwhelm without suppression

• Practical coping tools for work and home

• Building emotional resilience over time

Coping Skills That Aren’t Just Deep Breathing

Because sometimes breathing exercises just don’t cut it.

Explores:

• Sensory-based coping strategies

• Movement and grounding techniques

• Creative regulation tools

• Identifying coping styles that actually fit

Parenting & Caregiver Workshops

Breaking Generational Cycles

Understanding how patterns repeat — and how to interrupt them with awareness and intention.

Covers:

• How generational patterns form

• Nervous system responses in parenting

• Shifting from reaction to regulation

• Creating healthier family dynamics

Raising Emotionally Resilient Children

Supporting children’s emotional development without shame, fear, or control.

Topics include:

• Co-regulation vs discipline

• Supporting big emotions

• Modeling healthy coping

• Building emotional safety at home

Parental Burnout & Identity Loss

A validating, grounding workshop for caregivers navigating exhaustion, overwhelm, and identity shifts.

Focus areas:

• Understanding caregiver burnout

• Reconnecting with self beyond roles

• Gentle regulation tools for daily life

• Reducing guilt while increasing support

Creative & Experiential Workshops

Creative Expression for Emotional Regulation

Using art, writing, or movement as tools for processing emotions and supporting nervous system regulation.

Sound, Rhythm, & Regulation

Exploring sound and vibration as grounding tools to support relaxation, focus, and emotional balance.

Crafting for Calm

Hands-on creative workshops designed to promote connection, regulation, and mindfulness.

Custom & Collaborative Offerings

Customized workshops and multi-session trainings are available for organizations, retreats, conferences, and community events.

Offerings can be tailored to:

• Staff development days

• Retreat programming

• Parent or caregiver groups

• Community wellness initiatives

• Ongoing professional training series

Booking & Inquiries

To inquire about workshops, custom programming, or collaboration opportunities, please contact:

Abigayle Bennett, LMSW
Founder, Roots & Wings Integrative Wellness
📧 abigayle@rootswingswellness.org
🌐 www.rootswingswellness.org