The Complete
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Teacher Training:
A Comprehensive, Two-Part Certification Program
TRAUMA-SENSITIVE MINDFULNESS:
The Introductory Guide to Recognizing Trauma, Responding Skillfully, and Preventing Retraumatization
A 5-Module Online Course
ADVANCED TRAUMA-SENSITIVE MINDFULNESS:
Widening the Window of Tolerance and Supporting Trauma Recovery
A 10-Module Online Course
In a world where trauma affects so many, anyone teaching mindfulness has the opportunity to support healing and transformation.
Are You ready to develop the skills to guide others on their journey toward recovery and growth?
Why Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness?
Hi, I’m David Treleaven.
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness (TSM) is a framework I created to ensure mindfulness practices are not just safe but deeply supportive for those affected by trauma.
When mindfulness is taught without trauma awareness, it can unintentionally re-trigger past wounds. That’s why it’s essential to approach mindfulness with the understanding that many people bring trauma with them into practice.
This course equips you with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to teach mindfulness safely and effectively—protecting your students and offering them real healing tools for their recovery journey.
If you teach mindfulness or work with individuals who have experienced trauma, this training is critical. By the end, you’ll be prepared to offer life-changing support in a way that empowers healing and transformation.
Here’s a closer look at exactly what’s included in
The Complete Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Teacher Training:
A Comprehensive, Two-Part Certification Program
PART one
TRAUMA-SENSITIVE MINDFULNESS:
The Introductory Guide to Recognizing Trauma,
Responding Skillfully and Preventing Retraumatization
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: The Introductory Guide to Recognizing Trauma, Responding Skillfully, and Preventing Retraumatization offers a clear path toward mastering the foundational skills required to integrate mindfulness with trauma-informed care.
In a relatively short time, you’ll gain the expertise to support individuals navigating trauma within mindfulness practices. Whether you’re a coach, therapist, or mindfulness teacher, you’ll leave with the ability to apply trauma-sensitive techniques directly to your work.
Through a mix of lecture, case studies, experiential exercises, and pre-recorded Q&A sessions, you’ll complete this introductory Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness course with:
- A deep understanding of why meditation can cause dysregulation for trauma survivors, along with specific strategies to prevent retraumatization.
- The ability to identify signs of traumatic stress and adapt mindfulness practices to be trauma-sensitive and healing.
- Knowledge of current empirical research on mindfulness and trauma, including evidence-based interventions you can apply immediately in your practice.
- Practical tools and techniques to skillfully address dysregulated arousal, traumatic flashbacks, and trauma-related dissociation.
When you register, you’ll have immediate access to Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: The Introductory Guide to Recognizing Trauma, Responding Skillfully, and Preventing Retraumatization.
The course includes five pre-recorded Classroom Sessions and five pre-recorded Engagement Sessions (Q&A content for each specific module).
Here’s what you’ll learn in part one:
Facing The Trauma that Surrounds Us
In this module, you’ll gain a deep understanding of trauma’s impact, learn how it manifests in various contexts, and explore the core principles of TSM.
Exploring the Window of Tolerance and Why It Matters
In this module, you’ll dive into the Window of Tolerance, a critical tool for understanding how to effectively support or hinder trauma survivors in mindfulness practice.
Understanding the Double-Edged Sword of Mindful Attention
In this module, you’ll examine the double-edged sword of mindful attention and discover skillful techniques for guiding and reorienting mindful attention.
Keeping the Body in Mind
In this module, you’ll focus on the body’s role in trauma recovery—understanding how it can become a minefield for trauma survivors—and discover tools and techniques for offering practices that support healing.
Leveraging the Power of Relationship
In this module, you’ll explore the critical connection between mindfulness and the neurophysiology of belonging, with practical tools to foster interpersonal safety and enhance mindfulness practice.
After completing Part One, you’ll leave with:
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Confidence in identifying subtle non-verbal cues of traumatic stress, empowering you to recognize and respond to trauma more effectively.
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A diverse toolkit of mindfulness modifications, including internal and external anchors, to better support a variety of individuals and situations.
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Insight into how trauma manifests within communities, allowing you to adjust your practices to meet collective needs.
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Clarity around the relationship between interoceptive and exteroceptive sensations, and how this understanding deepens your trauma-sensitive mindfulness practice.
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Security in knowing that you’re equipped to prevent retraumatization, offering a safe space for practice and healing.
PART two
ADVANCED TRAUMA-SENSITIVE MINDFULNESS:
Widening the Window of Tolerance and Supporting Trauma Recovery
Advanced Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Widening the Window of Tolerance and Supporting Trauma Recovery is a groundbreaking course designed to build on the foundational skills from Part One, while expanding your ability to apply mindfulness in ways that actively support trauma recovery.
You’ll gain the tools to help individuals take meaningful strides toward healing within their mindfulness practice. Through a combination of lecture, case studies, and experiential practice, this course deepens the core trauma-sensitive competencies, with a special focus on practices that broaden the Window of Tolerance for trauma survivors.
In Advanced Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness, you will:
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Develop advanced skills in trauma-sensitive mindfulness through a deeper understanding of theory and discover practices that enhance resilience, self-compassion, and personal agency.
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Explore the power of mindful gauges—one of the most effective tools for empowering trauma survivors on their recovery journey.
- Learn mindful embodiment practices that enable people to self-generate safety and widen their window of tolerance
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Master mindful embodiment practices that help individuals self-generate safety and expand their window of tolerance.
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Integrate mindfulness practices focused on resilience and healing, tailored to support trauma recovery.
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Learn from world-renowned experts in the fields of mindfulness and trauma, equipping you with cutting-edge tools for your work.
Upon registration, you’ll have immediate access to Advanced Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Widening the Window of Tolerance and Supporting Trauma Recovery and be able to dive into recordings of 7 Classroom Sessions, 7 Guest Faculty Sessions, 7 Course Engagement (Q&A) Sessions, and 3 Speciality Focus Sessions focused on key areas of TSM, offering deeper insights and practical strategies for your teaching.
Here’s what you’ll learn in part two:
Meeting the Moment
In this Orientation, you’ll discover the three essential steps to widening the Window of Tolerance, ensuring you’re fully prepared to maximize your learning throughout the course.
Mindful Gauges
In this session, you’ll explore Mindful Gauges—a powerful tool of discernment that empowers choice, enhances agency, and drives trauma recovery by supporting mindful self-awareness.
Generating Safety
In Module Two, you’ll engage in a series of embodied mindfulness practices specifically designed to foster safety, enhance self-regulation, and cultivate a foundation of trust.
Trauma and Resilience
In Module Three, you’ll explore how resilience and resource-based practices are integral to supporting safety and self-regulation, and how they ultimately expand the Window of Tolerance, fostering deeper trauma recovery.
Trauma-Sensitive Body Scans
This comprehensive module delves into the art of trauma-sensitive body scans, covering best practices before, during, and after the practice, and techniques that help promote self-awareness and healing.
Mindful Self-Compassion
In Module Five, you’ll explore the transformative power of mindful self-compassion in trauma-sensitive mindfulness practice, learning how to skillfully work with shame and offer deep, compassionate care for oneself and others.
Truth, Reality, and Social Context
In this module, you’ll examine how to create a strong sense of belonging in the environments you work in—without losing sight of the social conditions that can shape a traumatic experience.
Cultivating Presence
In Module Seven, you’ll learn how the mindfulness practice known as RAIN (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) can deepen presence and enhance trauma recovery, providing powerful tools for self-compassion and healing.
Towards Completion
In the Finale, you’ll review the tools you’ve learned throughout the course, gaining a deeper understanding of how they complement one another and can support your practice.
Dissociation and TSM
In this module, you’ll discover how to work skillfully with trauma-related dissociation.
Chronic Pain and TSM
In this module, you’ll learn particular strategies for working with trauma-related chronic pain.
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga
In this module, you’ll learn specific modifications within yoga that connect to TSM.
After completing Part Two, you’ll leave with:
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Advanced expertise in expanding the Window of Tolerance, empowering you to guide trauma survivors in deepening their capacity for emotional regulation and resilience through mindfulness.
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An enhanced toolkit of trauma-sensitive mindfulness practices, including powerful mindful embodiment techniques and mindful gauges, designed to help individuals self-regulate, expand their tolerance, and experience healing.
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A refined ability to create safety and agency, using trauma-sensitive tools to foster a deep sense of trust and empowerment in those you work with, enabling them to feel supported on their path to recovery.
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A profound understanding of resilience and its role in trauma recovery, along with practical strategies to integrate resilience-focused mindfulness practices that support long-term healing and personal growth.
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A comprehensive approach to trauma-sensitive mindfulness, integrating the latest research and evidence-based interventions, ensuring you’re equipped with cutting-edge tools to support the needs of those you work with.
Meet Some of Our Guest Teachers
In Part Two of the Training, you’ll experience special interview sessions with world-renowned teachers, where they’ll share their expertise on mindfulness and trauma-informed practices to deepen your understanding and application of these transformative tools.
RICK HANSON, PhD
NYT bestselling Author of Buddha’s Brain and Hardwiring Happiness
STACI HAINES
Author of The Politics of Trauma and Healing Sex: A Mind-Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma
TARA BRACH, PhD
Author of Radical Acceptance, True Refuge, and Radical Compassion
PAULA RAMIREZ
Trauma-Informed Mindfulness Teacher with the United Nations (Colombia, South Sudan)
CHRIS GERMER, PhD
Co-Developer of Mindful Self-Compassion, author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion
Here’s What You’ll Receive Upon Enrollment:
When you enroll in The Complete Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Teacher Training, you gain immediate and lifetime access to an in-depth, research-backed certification program designed to equip you with the tools to integrate mindfulness and trauma awareness with confidence. You’ll receive:
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Full access to Part One and Part Two of our accredited, comprehensive training
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An enhanced toolkit of trauma-sensitive mindfulness practices, including powerful techniques designed to help individuals self-regulate, expand their tolerance, and experience healing.
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Guest Faculty Sessions with teachers such as Tara Brach and Rick Hanson, and exclusive Specialty Focus Sessions on Dissociation, Chronic Pain, and Trauma-Sensitive Yoga.
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Certification upon completion, demonstrating your expertise in Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness and your ability to support trauma survivors effectively.
This training is designed for mindfulness teachers, therapists, educators, and wellness professionals who want to ensure their mindfulness offerings are safe, ethical, and trauma-informed.
100% Money-Back Satisfaction Guarantee
We’re so confident in the value The Complete Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Training delivers that we offer a full, no-questions asked, money-back guarantee if you decide you want to cancel your registration within 7 days of purchase.
CONTINUING EDUCATION (CE) UNITS ARE AVAILABLE FOR THIS TRAINING
The Complete Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Training is proud to offer CE units through our CE partner for a wide variety of professions. The Introductory course offers a total of 6 CEUs and the Advanced course offers 14 CEUs. More information can be found below.
What Participants are Saying About The Complete Trauma- Sensitive Mindfulness Teacher Training:
“This was the single best course I’ve ever taken. The authenticity, integrity, and care of the delivery were unparalleled.”
—Lyssa Menard
Business Coach, Health Psychologist,
and Founder of Strategies for Change
“David’s work has been invaluable to students during my mindfulness classes for outpatient veterans. Introducing the principles of trauma-sensitive mindfulness beginning with the orientation session has made it easier for Vets with any trauma.”
—Rich Cohen
Certified Mindfulness-Based
Stress Reduction Instructor
“I was especially struck by David’s presence and instruction. He truly embodies kindness, acceptance, flexibility, and curiosity. Without arrogance, he exudes confidence in his own truths and understandings of trauma and trauma treatment.
—Judy Bernstein
Psychologist and Certified Mindfulness-Based
Stress Reduction Instructor
“Everything about this training was more than I anticipated. I look forward to using this work with my counseling clients and in the wellness services provided for the community.”
—Johanna Travieso
Licensed Professional Counselor
“A truly top notch and transformational training in every respect! A just-right balance between didactic and interactive/experiential learning. Loved the flow and variety of the sessions. The supplemental resources are brilliant, and very generous, exceeding expectations. I’ll be returning to them often.”
—Alison Purnell
National Health Service Counsellor (UK)
and Mindfulness Teacher
“I am extremely grateful for having been a part of this training. It will forever change the way I teach meditation and mindfulness.”
—Jacqueline Piazza
Mindfulness Meditation Instructor
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is the Complete Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Training all pre-recorded materials?
Yes! All sessions are pre-recorded to provide a structured, self-paced learning experience. Some were recorded with live cohorts, while others—such as all Classroom Sessions in the Advanced Training—were recorded separately for clarity. This format has been well-received, giving you the flexibility to learn at your own pace while still benefiting from the depth of the training.
Is this course intended for professional training or personal healing?
This course is designed as a professional training for mindfulness professionals looking to integrate trauma-sensitive principles into their work. While personal growth may naturally occur, this training is not intended as a substitute for individual trauma healing. If you’re leading mindfulness practices and seeking to deepen your understanding of trauma-sensitive mindfulness, this course is a great fit.
Is there a community or live support as part of this training?
This is a fully self-paced course, designed for you to complete at your own rhythm. While we don’t offer a community forum or live sessions, the training is clear, comprehensive, and easy to follow. You’ll have access to a database of program graduates who have offered to connect, and you’re welcome to share your own contact information as well. Plus, with lifetime access, you can revisit the materials anytime and integrate the learning in ways that best support your practice.
I understand this is not a trauma healing course, but I am a mindfulness practitioner who has experienced trauma. Is this course for me?
If you’re taking this course primarily to heal your own trauma, it may not be the best fit. However, many mindfulness practitioners have experienced trauma, and this training encourages a self-aware, paced approach to engaging with the material. We recommend moving through the content at a pace that feels right for you. And if you find that the course isn’t the right fit, we offer a 7-day money-back guarantee.
How long can I access the sessions online?
You’ll have lifetime access to all course sessions as soon as you enroll. This means you can revisit the materials anytime, allowing you to learn at your own pace and refresh your knowledge whenever you need.
What is the time commitment for this course?
This course is self-paced, so you can engage with the material in a way that fits your schedule. Most participants complete the training within 8 weeks, but you can take as much time as you need with lifetime access.
Is there a group discount available?
Yes! We offer group discounts for teams of five or more. If you’re enrolling as part of a workplace, organization, or community, reach out to us at info@davidtreleaven.com, and we’d be happy to discuss options.
Do you offer scholarships for this program?
We’re committed to making this training accessible to those experiencing financial constraints, and a limited number of scholarships are available. If you’d like to apply, please contact us at info@davidtreleaven.com for more details on the process.
Will Continuing Education Units (CEUs) be offered for this course?
Yes. CEUs are offered for most professions for both the Introductory and Advanced TSM courses through our Continuing Education (CE) partner. The Introductory course offers a total of 6 CEUs and the Advanced course offers 14 CEUs. CEUs are offered at the end of each Part One and Part Two, and are also broken down per module (so you can obtain the full 20 or a lesser amount). At the end of each course/module, you will be presented with a link to our CE partner’s page, where you will be asked to pay a fee ($40/course, or $80 total for all 20 CEUs) and take a true/false test to obtain the CEUs. More information, including the professions that our CEUs are available to, can be found on our CE partner’s page. This training can also count towards Yoga Alliance CEUs.
Here’s what leaders in the field are saying about David and Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness:
"An essential 'upgrade' for anyone who thinks of themselves as a mindfulness teacher, or is in training to become one."
— JON KABAT-ZINN, PhD
Founder, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
"Indispensable training for yoga and meditation teachers, as well as mental health professionals who are passionate about integrating mindfulness into their clinical practice."
— ZABIE YAMASAKI
Program Director of Trauma-Informed Yoga, UCLA
"Essential reading for meditation teachers, mental health practitioners and all those who have suffered from trauma and want to engage on a meditative path in a wise and healing way."
— TARA BRACH, PhD
Author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge
"David Treleaven's expertise is beyond valuable for students in our meditation instructor training programs—it is essential.”
— SUSAN PIVER
Meditation Teacher and NYT Bestselling Author of The Four Noble Truths of Love
ABOUT DAVID TRELEAVEN
David Treleaven, PhD, is a writer, educator, and trauma professional specializing in the intersection of mindfulness and trauma. He is the author of the acclaimed book Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness (2018) and the follow-up Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Workbook (2025), both published by W. W. Norton. His original book has been translated into 10 languages and continues to shape mindfulness practices and teaching worldwide.
David has taught thousands of mindfulness teachers and practitioners worldwide, including through the Oxford Mindfulness Center, Brown University, UCLA, and various mindfulness organizations across Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. His teaching has also extended to esteemed centers such as Spirit Rock Meditation Center, the Shambhala Mountain Center, the Esalen Institute, and the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York.