This is essential information for anyone who works with neurodivergent people or trauma survivors.

While current events continue to generate trauma at an incredible pace, there is a growing wave of distress, chronic illness, collapse, and burnout in response. 

Professionals who support traumatized people are frequently facing illness and burnout themselves due to secondary trauma. 

This mini workshop series is designed to help people contextualize burnout and chronic illness that is happening during a time period of societal collapse. 

Although this is an educational class, and not a trauma processing space, many students have reported transformational experiences from previous classes. 

This series is specifically focused on viewing the body as an ally. Our bodies don't hate us. They're on our side.

Workshop descriptions

  • Workshop I: The Stress Cycle, Burnout, and Chronic Illness

    This class is focused on understanding the connection between the stress cycle and neurodivergent burnout and chronic illness. This info challenges the existing disease model and explains hundreds of physical and mental illnesses. Students will learn to see symptoms as info about environment.

  • Workshop II: Neurodiversity Lite and Systemic Trauma

    This class is focused on understanding what systemic trauma is and how it's connected to burnout and chronic illness. We'll talk about how to spot mental health pros who side with systems of abuse. We'll also discuss how to create space for stress cycles to finish for ourselves or for others.

Who is this for?

These classes are mostly for professionals, in the sense that the info is targeted to therapists, coaches, teachers, counselors, social workers, somatic practitioners, massage therapists, and other types of helping professionals. 

But also, this is open to anyone, because anyone can be a spaceholder.  We don't have to be professionals to hold space for ourselves or someone else to finish incomplete stress cycles we've been carrying because of seeing so much harm go unaccounted for. 

The information in this set of workshops is useful for nervous system beginners as well as for people who have a lot of nervous system education already and are looking to expand and/or contextualize that information.

Pricing options

The cost of the full series is $144. If that amount is financially dificult, you can choose the sliding scale rate, no questions asked. If the reduced cost is inaccessible, please scroll down to the end of the page to find the scholarship application. Each paid spot in the course makes one free scholarship spot available for someone else.

FAQ

  • How long do we have access to the videos?

    Recordings are lifetime access. If we ever move away from Thinkific (this course platform), we'll upload the videos to YouTube and send you a private link to access them. You can also download recordings to keep permanently.

  • Is there a way to ask Janae questions about this series?

    Yes! Each of the two sessions will have at least 30 minutes of Q & A time after the presentation of information.

  • Would this course work for a high school student?

    Yes, but it's especially important for teens and young adults to have someone they trust to talk with about this info beyond the class setting.

  • Are there CEUs?

    Check with your supervisor! My in-person groups count for CEUs but online groups have varying requirements. If you need documentation, you can create a certificate for Janae to sign off on.

  • Can I buy the course as a gift for someone else?

    Yes! Gifting educational opportunities is a great way to support someone in your life. When you go to the checkout page, you can click the box next to "This is a Gift" and then add the recipients email address.

Facilitator / Teacher

Janae Elisabeth

Trauma Geek

Janae (they/she/he) is an information synthesizer who has been studying polyvagal theory and related nervous system models for 6+ years. Their specialty is tying together threads of information from many different fields to create a holistic understanding of the nervous system and neurodivergence. Janae has deeply studied these topics in an effort to understand herself better as an AuDHD PDAer with complex trauma. Since 2018, they have been teaching about trauma, the nervous system, and neurodiversity through local peer support circles and through the advocacy and education project, Trauma Geek. Past students in Janae's courses have reported transformational experiences including more self-love, more gentleness with themselves, more understanding of their own bodies, more acceptance of themselves, and more connection to community. For legal reasons, please note, Janae is not a counselor or therapist.