This module introduces the Integrative Trauma and Healing Framework through its five statements: we begin whole, with safety, agency, dignity, and belonging as fundamentals; we embody trauma and healing across five layers; trauma interrupts those fundamentals; trauma overwhelms the body brain; and we can be whole again. It also covers the nervous system, co-regulation, strategies for re-building safety, agency, dignity, and belonging.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the four fundamentals and what it means to begin from wholeness. 
• Explain how trauma and healing are embodied across the five layers.
• Recognize trauma as an interruption of the four fundamentals.
• Describe how trauma overwhelms the body brain, and how co-regulation helps.
• Explore pathways to healing through bearing witness and restoration.