Coaching Works Best When the Nervous System Feels Safe

Trauma-Informed Coaching

The PERSEPHONE Model & Polyvagal-Informed Practice

When your best coaching tools stop working, this is what you reach for next.

30 ICF CCEUs · Self-Paced · Advanced · Accreditation-Safe

THE PROBLEM

You already coach well. So why do some clients still stall?

You ask the powerful questions. You hold the space. You set the goals and track the movement. Most of the time, it works — beautifully.

And then it doesn't.

A leader goes quiet and you can't reach them. A client circles the same insight for the third month running. Someone intellectually "gets it" yet nothing in their life actually shifts. The harder you lean on your proven tools, the more fragile the progress becomes.

It's tempting to read this as a skills gap. It usually isn't.

What you're meeting is a nervous system that has quietly decided it isn't safe. And no question — however elegant — lands while a client is in protection.

THE TURNING POINT

Coaching works best when the nervous system feels safe.

This programme was built for the exact moment your usual approach reaches its ceiling. It gives you a second layer of practice — one that works underneath the conversation, where the real obstacles actually live.

You'll learn to recognise what's happening in a client's physiology, understand why insight sometimes creates pressure instead of relief, and respond in a way that restores safety and movement — all without stepping outside your role as a coach.

Because this is the distinction that matters: this is not therapy training, and it won't turn you into a therapist. It makes you a coach who knows precisely what to do when the work gets real.

WHAT YOU'LL WALK AWAY ABLE TO DO

Read the nervous system in the room — and adjust your coaching in real time
Recognise trauma-adaptive patterns before they derail a session
Use language and pacing that build safety as a deliberate skill, not a happy accident
Work ethically with relational, organisational, and systemic harm — not just personal history
Deploy yourself, the coach as instrument, with far more precision and far less depletion
Map every skill back to ICF competencies, so your practice stays fully accreditation-safe

INSIDE THE PROGRAMME

Nine modules take you from first principles to embodied, assessed practice:

Foundations — what trauma-informed coaching is, and how human behaviour gets reshaped
The PERSEPHONE Model — a gentle, structured map for transformation
Polyvagal-Informed Practice — the nervous system, explained for coaches who need to use it
Trauma-Adaptive Patterns — spotting them in real clients, in real time
Skills & Language — the power of safety, made practical
The Relational Field — power, systems, and collective harm across four categories of trauma, from interpersonal to structural
The Coach as Instrument — your own regulation as a core competency
Integration & Assessment — embodied practice plus a professional application assignment
A Specialised Case Study — the psychological architecture of compulsory military training, and what it reveals about authority, identity, and adaptive patterns

WHO THIS IS FOR

This programme fits you if you're a practising coach — executive, leadership, life, or team — who keeps meeting clients whose progress feels mysteriously stuck, and who wants a rigorous, ethical, accreditation-safe way to go deeper.

It's probably not for you if you're brand new to coaching and still building your core skills, or if you're looking for clinical or therapeutic certification. This is advanced coaching education, designed to sit on top of an existing practice.

YOUR GUIDE

Led by Angelos Derlopas, MSc, MCC, MP — ICF Master Certified Coach, EMCC Master Practitioner, and founder of Positivity Global Coaching. Across more than 140 countries of work, Angelos has built the PERSEPHONE Model to give coaches a humane, practical way to meet trauma in the room without overstepping their craft.

CHOOSE YOUR PATH

Basic — €1,950

Full access to every module, plus all templates and frameworks. Learn entirely at your own pace. Fully asynchronous and in English.

Prefer to spread it out? An instalment plan is available at €540/month for 4 months.

All plans carry the full 30 ICF CCEUs.

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A FEW COMMON QUESTIONS

Will this jeopardise my ICF accreditation?

No. Every unit is built and mapped to ICF competencies, and the programme is fully accreditation-safe. You earn 30 CCEUs on completion.

Is this therapy training?

No. It teaches you to coach skilfully when trauma is present — to recognise it, work safely around it, and refer when appropriate. It keeps you firmly inside the coaching role.

How is it delivered?

Self-paced and online, so you can move through it around your practice. Fully asynchronous to meet your demanding lifestyle.

Do I need prior trauma knowledge?

No prior trauma training is required, though the material is pitched at experienced coaches.

CLOSING

Your clients don't need you to push harder. They need you to know what's happening — and what to do about it.

Step into the work that begins where ordinary coaching stops.

Trauma-Informed Coaching

Coaching Works Best When the Nervous System Feels Safe

Trauma-Informed Coaching

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