Coaching Works Best When the Nervous System Feels Safe

Many coaches are highly skilled at asking powerful questions, setting goals, and driving insight.

And yet, at a certain level of complexity, those tools stop working.

Clients stall.

Leaders shut down.

Insight creates pressure instead of movement.

Progress becomes fragile—or impossible.

Not because coaching is failing.

But because the nervous system is under threat.

This program was designed for that moment.

30 ICF Continuing Coach Education Units (CCEUs)

Self-Paced | Advanced | Accreditation-Safe

Course curriculum

1

Introduction
- Mapping Program Skills to ICF Core Competencies
- Alignment with ICF ACC / PCC / MCC Markers & BARS
2

Module 1
- Foundations of Trauma-Informed Coaching Free Preview
- Reshaping Human Behavior
3

Module 2
- Understanding the PERSEPHONE Model: A Gentle Map for Transformation
- The PERSEPHONE Model
4

Module 3
- Polyvagal-Informed Nervous System Practice for Coaches
- Polyvagal Theory Explained
5

Module 4
- Trauma-Adaptive Patterns in Coaching Clients
- Trauma Adaptive Patterns
6

Module 5
- Trauma-Informed Coaching Skills & Language
- Power of Safety in Coaching
7

Module 6
- The Relational Field: Power, Systems, and Collective Harm
- Beyond Personal Trauma: Systemic Harm and Nervous System Ethics
- Contexts of Harm: A Framework for Trauma-Informed Coaching
- Trauma, Power & Relational Harm
- Category I: Relational and Psychological Harm
- Trauma Generated in Close or Repeated Interpersonal Dynamics
- Category II: Group and Organizational Trauma
- Trauma Generated in Teams, Institutions, and Performance Cultures
- Category III: Bias- and Identity-Based Cumulative Trauma
- Low-Intensity Trauma, Repeated Harm Affecting Identity and Belonging
- Category IV: Systemic and Structural Trauma
- Trauma Embedded in Social, Cultural, and Institutional Systems
8

Module 7
- The Coach as Instrument
- The Coach as Instrument, pt.II
9

Module 8
- Integration, Assessment & Professional Application
- Embodied Practice
- Assignment
10

Module 9
- The Psychological Architecture of Compulsory Military Training Free Preview
- The Unseen Imprint Free Preview
- The Silent Curriculum of Command
- The Architecture of Adaptive Masculinity
- The Internalization of Authority: From Commander to Mentor
- The Architecture of Conscious Masculinity
- Quiz
11

One to one mentoring session with Angelos Derlopas, MCC, MP
- Optional 1:1 session

Trauma-Informed Coaching

Coaching Works Best When the Nervous System Feels Safe

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