Description
This workshop will be live streaming to online participants on February 18, 2026 from 8:30am – 4:00pm (Vancouver, BC)
Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone.
Recorded footage and all course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until March 23, 2026. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
Please allow 3 – 10 business days after the course airs for recorded footage to become available.
Registration will close on February 17, 2026.
This immersive 6-hour training equips educators, therapists, and helping professionals with a powerful, trauma-informed framework for understanding and responding to challenging behaviors through the lens of developmental and early attachment trauma. Participants learn how early relational disruptions shape the nervous system, impact learning and behavior, and influence relational safety in classrooms and therapy settings.
Through interactive activities and practical tools attendees will learn to recognize nervous-system states, identify unmet attachment needs, repair relational ruptures, and apply co-regulation and PACE-based strategies that build safety, trust, and resilience. The training emphasizes compassion-driven, neuroscience-informed approaches that transform dysregulated moments into opportunities for connection.
Developmental and Early Attachment Trauma
- Definitions
- Developmental trauma
- Early attachment trauma
- The developmental windows: early brain development, critical periods, and relational imprinting
- How early trauma differs from single-incident trauma
- Why early relational trauma is uniquely impactful
The Neurobiology of Attachment & Trauma
- Stress response system (HPA axis)
- Polyvagal Theory & co-regulation
- How chronic relational unpredictability shapes brain organization
- Neurobiological roots of:
- Hypervigilance
- Shutdown
- Oppositional behavior
- Shame responses
- Implications for learning, attention, executive functioning
Identifying Attachment-Based Trauma Patterns in Behavior
- Common presentations in school and clinical environments:
- Big behaviors
- Control battles
- Avoidance & withdrawal
- People-pleasing / fawn responses
- Testing adults
- Difficulty with peers
- Distinguishing trauma-driven behaviors from “non-compliance”
- Shame cycles and relational looping
Relationship Repair: Principles of Re-Building Ruptured Attachments
- Attachment repair vs. behavior management
- Why traditional discipline fails with attachment-impacted youth
- Core relational needs: safety, predictability, attunement, repair
- Cycle of rupture → repair → resilience
- Healing moments and micro-interactions
- DDP (Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy) & PACE
- Theraplay dimensions of engagement
- Circle of Security concepts
- ARC (Attachment, Regulation, Competency) framework
Practical Strategies for Educators & Therapists
- Co-regulation strategies
- Building predictable relational environments
- High-structure/high-nurture approaches
- Sensory support and environmental regulation
- Trauma-informed limit-setting
- Creating collaborative communication between school, home, and therapy
- “Connection before direction” sequences
- Scripts for repair after rupture
- Daily relational routines (greeting rituals, check-ins, connection micro-bursts)
- Trauma-informed classroom and therapy room modifications
- Breakdowns in adult response
- Opportunities for repair
Creating Sustainable, Multidisciplinary Support Systems
- How educators and therapists collaborate
- Communication pathways to reduce mixed messages
- Developing a consistent relational roadmap for a child
- Importance of adult nervous-system regulation
- Self-care and preventing burnout
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Define developmental trauma, early attachment trauma, and differentiate them from other forms of trauma.
- Identify the neurobiological and relational impacts of early attachment trauma on behavior, learning, emotional regulation, and relational functioning.
- Recognize common behavioral, emotional, and relational presentations of children and youth with early attachment trauma in school and clinical settings.
- Apply trauma-informed, attachment-focused strategies to support co-regulation, felt safety, and relational repair.
- Use evidence-based models (e.g., Theraplay, ARC, DDP, Polyvagal-informed approaches) to develop intervention plans.
- Implement practical tools for reducing re-traumatization, building trust, and creating predictable, supportive relational environments.
- Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams (educators, mental health providers, caregivers) to reinforce consistent relational repair.
Education and Clinical Professionals: All education and mental health or healthcare professionals who work with children or youth including, but not limited to K–12 Classroom Teachers, School Counsellors, Learning Assistance/Resource Teachers, School Administrators, School Paraprofessionals including Special Education Assistants, Classroom Assistants and Childcare Workers • All other professionals who support behavioural challenges and complex learning needs including but not limited to: Nurses, Social Workers, Psychologists, Clinical Counsellors, Family Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Addiction Counsellors, Youth Workers, Mental Health Workers, Probation Officers and Community Police Officers.
International workshop presenter, author, and psychotherapist Patti Ashley, Ph.D, LPC, has integrated 40 years of experience in special education, child development, and psychology into her wholehearted work as a psychotherapist, author, international speaker, and authenticity architect coach. She brings unique insights into the identification and treatment of shame, trauma, grief, and dysfunctional family patterns.
Dr. Ashley owns and operates Authenticity Architects in Boulder, Colorado. Her inimitable Authenticity Architects model facilitates long-term changes in the brain and nervous system, helping clients break through unconscious barriers and rediscover a sense of self-love, belonging, and connection.
Patti has counselled a myriad of individuals, couples, families and groups in mental health agencies, psychiatric hospitals, and private practice settings. She also has many years of experience developing continuing education courses for physicians, hospital wellness programs, universities, and other organizations.
Dr. Ashley holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in psychology from the Union Institute and University, a Master of Education Degree in early childhood from Old Dominion University, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in special education from James Madison University. She is the author of Living in the Shadow of the Too-Good Mother Archetype (2014), Letters to Freedom (2019), and Shame-Informed Therapy: Treatment Strategies to Overcome Core Shame and Reconstruct the Authentic Self (2020).
For more information, please visit www.pattiashley.com
More information: www.pattiashley.com
| Registration | Early bird Fee | Regular Fee |
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| Individual Enrollment | $244.00 | N/A |
| Group 3 - 7 | $183.00 | N/A |
| Group 8 - 15 | $122.00 | N/A |
| Group 15+ | $97.60 | N/A |
| Full-Time Student | $97.60 | N/A |
All fees are in Canadian dollars ($CAD) and per person.
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