Our Services
We offer workshops, consulting, courses & training to suit your needs:
CREATIVE PROCESSES: ARTS & PERFORMANCE
Pre-Production: Setting the Stage for Safe, Inclusive Collaboration
We help organizations and creative teams lay the groundwork before rehearsal even begins — ensuring that safety, access, and consent are prioritized from day one.
Pre-rehearsal orientation & planning for entire casts, crews, or production teams
Individual consulting for directors, stage managers, conductors, choreographers, and educators
Artist wellness planning: Supporting performers as they prepare for emotionally demanding or intimate roles
Consent-forward process design: Creating structures that respect boundaries while supporting risk-taking and creative rigor
Collaborative norm-setting: Developing shared agreements that foster relational safety and accountability across departments
We offer custom workshops that embed trauma-informed, consent-forward practices into your rehearsal, creative, and production processes — supporting artistry and wellbeing from auditions to final performance. We supportDuring Rehearsal & Performance: Sustaining Safety Through the Creative Process
We support teams in maintaining a trauma-informed lens through the rehearsal room, tech, previews, and performance run.
On-site or virtual support for rehearsals or staging of sensitive material
Mid-process check-ins for artists and leaders
Rehearsal room design consultations (structure, boundaries, rituals, decompression practices)
Integration of trauma-informed techniques like the “button” system, safety language, and universal design tools
Coaching or support for leadership navigating interpersonal or group dynamics
Post-Production: Reflection, Integration, and Sustainable Transitions
We help teams close their process with care — offering tools for debriefing, de-roleing, and reflecting on the experience in a way that sustains wellbeing and learning.
Facilitated post-mortem reflections: Trauma-informed wrap-ups for casts and crews
De-roleing & closure rituals: Strategies to help artists safely transition out of demanding roles
Ongoing support for leadership teams: Integrating learnings from one production into future practice
Optional follow-up sessions for check-ins, feedback loops, and culture building
CREATIVE CLASSROOMS:
K-12, POST-SECONDARY & ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
We work with post-secondary, K-12 and arts educators to support you in building inclusive, emotionally safe learning environments — rooted in care, boundaries, and bold creative exploration. We work with educators and groups of student artists with tailor-made frameworks to support their creative practices, self-regulation and metacognitive tools.
Pre-Term or Program Design: Embedding Safety from the Start
Whether you’re planning a school year, course syllabus, or season of student productions, we help you design proactive strategies that support both student wellbeing and creative rigour.
Curriculum & lesson plan design support using Universal Design and trauma-informed frameworks
Faculty development workshops on creating brave, consent-forward classrooms
Pre-term planning for productions or performance-based classes
Safety protocols for ensemble-based work, theatre, voice, and movement training
Classroom agreements & routine building for relational safety and group cohesion
Mid-Term Support: Tools for Teachers, Space for Students
We provide practical, classroom-ready tools that support the day-to-day realities of teaching and learning in emotionally rich, performance-based environments.
Classroom workshops on trauma-informed mindfulness, the ‘button’ system, and opt-in participation models
Strategies for introducing emotionally demanding work in safe, supportive ways
Strengths-based feedback frameworks that affirm student growth, not just performance
Ongoing coaching or consultation for educators navigating student challenges or group dynamics
Support for integrating joy, play, and ‘savouring’ practices that build classroom resilience
End-of-Term or Post-Project: Closure, Reflection, and Integration
We help educators and students close their learning experiences in meaningful, trauma-informed ways — encouraging reflection, regulation, and retention.
De-roleing tools and closure rituals to support students exiting emotionally demanding work
Facilitated group reflections or post-performance debriefs
Educator support to reflect on teaching practice, set boundaries, and prevent burnout
Optional follow-up sessions for feedback, adjustment, and continued growth
CREATIVE BOARDROOMS: NON-PROFIT, CORPORATE & CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TEAMS
We help teams reimagine how they meet, collaborate, and co-create. Using trauma-informed frameworks, we teach you how to communicate with care and lead with intention — even in high-stakes or high-change environments.
Pre-Engagement or Planning Phase: Building Intentional Foundations
Whether you’re launching a new initiative, onboarding new team members, or designing a strategic plan, we support you in setting clear, values-aligned foundations.
Team onboarding protocols that build psychological safety from day one
Facilitated planning sessions that centre transparency, inclusion, and shared ownership
Co-creation of group agreements, communication norms, and meeting rhythms
Custom facilitation design for retreats, launches, or culture-building initiatives
Leadership coaching to embed trauma-informed awareness into decision-making processes
Active Collaboration Phase: Tools for Meetings, Creativity, and Culture
We offer actionable tools and frameworks to help your team navigate collaboration, feedback, and change with clarity and care.
Strategies for creative problem-solving, and trust-building
Communication frameworks for difficult conversations, feedback, and boundary-setting
Techniques for meeting redesign — making room for all voices, neurodiverse needs, and psychological safety
Strategies for protecting team energy and preventing burnout in creative or high-output phases
Consent-forward planning for roles, responsibilities, and collaborative decision-making
Post-Project Integration: Reflection, Resilience & Reset
We help teams debrief, integrate, and recalibrate after major projects or transitions
Post-project debrief facilitation to support learning and group cohesion
Reflective tools for identifying what worked, what was hard, and what needs repair
Burnout prevention practices and wellness check-ins for high-performing teams
Follow-up support to embed trauma-informed practices into ongoing systems and structures
Optional retainer support for continued coaching and change navigationtrust through psychologically safe collaboration.
At the Trauma Informed Arts Institute we will support you to:
Understand the intersection between the arts and trauma
Become trauma aware and knowledgeable about the impact and consequences of traumatic experiences for individuals, families, and communities
Evaluate and initiate use of appropriate tools
Implement strategies, tools and interventions from a collaborative, strengths-based approach
Learn the core principles and practices that reflect TIP
Anticipate the need for planning strategies in advance of working with a team, individual or organization
Decrease the inadvertent re-traumatization that can occur from not implementing these practices into plans, meetings, policies, procedures, and interventions
Evaluate and build a trauma-informed organization and workforce.