Take your career and
expertise to a new level!

20 Hours

Develop essential trauma-aware capabilities through 20 focused learning hours designed to enhance your coaching range

Virtual and Global

Learn with a global cohort on the TFI Fulfillment Platform where you'll apply trauma-aware approaches in real coaching scenarios with expert feedback.

Certificate

Earn a certificate validating your trauma-aware coaching competencies, distinguishing your practice in this growing field.

Certified Coaches

Learn from coaching psychology experts coaches with experience in trauma-aware approaches who bridge psychological research with practical coaching applications.

Critical Dimension

Learn how to integrate the critical dimension of trauma in developmental journeys, enabling breakthrough results.

The field of trauma studies has revolutionized our understanding of human performance and potential. Drawing from the groundbreaking work of Dr. Gabor Maté, Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine, and other pioneers, this program translates cutting-edge research into practical coaching applications.

In this 20-hour certification, you'll learn how early experiences and attachment patterns shape adult behaviors and responses to stress—often manifesting as the very leadership challenges your clients seek to overcome. Drawing on Dr. Maté's insights about how trauma disconnects people from their authentic selves, you'll develop approaches that help clients reconnect with their innate capacities while creating environments that support genuine growth.

This program balances theoretical understanding with practical application while maintaining clear boundaries between coaching and therapy.

Nervous System Dynamics

Trauma-Aware Questioning

Authentic Self Connection

Body-Mind Awareness

Ethical Practice

Create coaching environments where authentic exploration becomes possible.

Work skillfully with underlying dynamics rather than just surface behaviors.

Develop approaches to work effectively with the full spectrum of human experience.

Maintain your credentials through specialized development recognized by ICF.
(ICF CCEUs pending approval)

Connect with the expanding community of trauma-aware coaching practitioners.

Who Should Enroll?

This program is ideal for:

Experienced coaches seeking deeper understanding of client patterns and responses
Executive and leadership coaches working with clients in high-pressure environments
Coaches wanting to enhance their effectiveness with challenging client situations
Practitioners committed to creating deeper psychological safety in their coaching

Enhance your coaching impact with essential trauma-aware capabilities that honor both science and coaching boundaries.

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Anita Vasudeva

Anita brings over four decades of deep and diverse work experience as a Coach, Communicator and Business Professional, to TFI. After 16 years in the corporate tourism industry, she became an entrepreneur who founded the first travel portal in India, set up a business consulting firm, a writing service and communication company, and also founded one of the first enabling platforms for women in India promoting diversity, back to work and flexibility. She co-founded The Foundation for Working Women addressing gender challenges at work, and has been an Advisory member to various social change organizations. For the past decade, Anita has dedicated herself to creating conscious growth through coaching, and to writing and communication.

“It is one life and we must choose to live it to the fullest. It is this belief that drew me to TFI.”

As an ICF Coach and Consultant, Anita has over 2500 hours of coaching experience with business leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, individuals, groups and teams from a range of industries and at different stages of life and growth. Anita draws upon diverse wisdom schools, and studies in a blended approach that responds to the context and reality of life and work. As a Writer and Communication Consultant, Anita has worked with various organizations on communication strategy and guidelines, development of communication collateral and content, and communication training. She has also written corporate and brand biographies and papers, and edited books and papers – business, non-fiction and fiction.

An English Literature major from Lady Sri Ram College, New Delhi with a Social Communications post-graduate from Mumbai University, Anita is currently based in New Delhi. She continues to be a student of change psychology, social transformation, philosophy and spiritual study. Her other interests are theatre, art, language, poetry and media.

Preeti D’mello

Preeti brings a passionately committed vision, deep expertise and over three decades of work experience to TFI. Recognized for design thinking in systemic organizational and leadership development work, she has a practical and strengths-based orientation to her work, leveraging her experience and understanding of human nature to enable effective turnarounds in personal, business, and leadership challenges.

Preeti’s career of over 35 years spans several industries and sectors – IT Services, Education & Training, International Business, Education Consulting and Publishing. She recently completed a decade-long stint as the Chief Diversity Officer and Global Head of Organizational Development, Leadership Development (LeaD Academy), Coaching, Diversity (DEI) and Culture at TATA Consultancy Services (TCS), where she played a key role in significantly changing the trajectory of DEI with a simple motto – “Inclusion without Exception.” She established the Global Coaching Centre of Excellence as a part of the LEAD Academy and led the DEIJB function as Global Head. Her work is the recipient of the PRISM Award, a gold standard in Coaching from ICF.

Prior to TCS, she served as Regional Director: South Asia for Pearson Learning Solutions (PLS) and Edexcel International where she re-launched the Edexcel brand in South Asia, achieving 40% growth in 2010 (revenues $6.3M) and increasing school partnerships by 90%.

Preeti is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and Organizational Psychologist with over 5000 hours of coaching a compelling contribution to the coaching field via Coach Education, Coach Supervision, Coach Mentoring and one-on-one leadership. Founder of the Gestalt Institute of Asia, where she now plays an advisory role, Preeti is also a member of the Global Board of International Coaching Federation (ICF) - Coaching in Organizations (CIO), and Chair of the Diversity Task Force for the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).

Preeti’s belief is that Coaching is both an art and a science with the potential to inspire transformation at the individual and systemic levels. As a process, she aims to bridge the gap between where people are, where they wish to be, who they are, and who they want to become by enhancing awareness and unlocking an individual’s potential to tap into the innate resourcefulness that every person possesses.

Over time Preeti has had the privilege and opportunity to support individuals, teams, and organizations in exploring resistance, enhancing communication, and promoting resilience and autonomous thinking at an individual level and creating pathways of transformation for systems at the level of groups and teams.

Satyashiv D’mello

Shiv’s experience as a Coach, his commitment to individual and social well-being, and his deep and diverse studies and research, have inspired his role and work at TFI.

A Professional Certified Coach through the ICF (International Coaching Federation), Shiv has spent the past xx years working with corporate middle management and emerging leaders across a range of issues, from sharpening their leadership capabilities and navigating change more effectively, to working interdependently with teams and planning ahead for the future of the workplace. His approach integrates positive psychology, neuroscience, Gestalt processes, organisational development, and coaching, which together serve individual, team, and organisational needs.

Shiv is also Founder and Director at YouUbuntu Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on wellbeing.

Previously, Shiv led the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Wellbeing (DEI&W) and Social Sustainability functions for six years at Conscious Development LLC. He has designed, developed and facilitated learning programs for corporates such as Bosch, Netflix, Tata Group, and many others. He also carried out research studies and impact assessments for various Indian and global partners to shape organizational and industry policies.

Shiv graduated from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai University with a double major in Psychology and Anthropology. He holds an MSC degree in Positive Organization Development and Change from Case Western Reserve University, USA

Dr. Anna Tavis

Dr. Anna Tavis is Clinical Professor and Chair of the Human Capital Management Departmentat NYU’s School of Professional Studies. She has been named to Thinkers50 Radar in 2020 and to top 100 Global Influencers in People Analytics in 2023, 2024. Dr. Tavis is the co-author of Humans at Work. The art and practice of creating the hybrid workplace. (Kogan Page, 2022) and The Digital Coaching Revolution (Kogan Page, 2024).

Prior to joining the NYU faculty, Dr. Tavis navigated a diverse global career in business, consulting and academia. In business, Dr. Tavis was the Head of Motorola’s EMEA OD function based in London, Nokia’s Global Head of Talent Management based in Helsinki, United Technologies Corporation’s Chief Learning Officer, and she was the Global Head of Talent and Organizational Development with AIG Investments. In academia, Dr. Tavis was on the faculty at Columbia University, Williams College, and Fairfield University.

Two of Dr. Tavis’ Harvard Business Review articles in collaboration with Dr. Peter Cappelli : “HR Goes Agile” (2018) and “The Performance Management Revolution” (2016) were published in HBR’s “Must Reads” (2016 & 2018), and “Definitive Management Ideas of the Year” (2016 and 2018) and in “Agile: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review” (2020).

Dr. Tavis is a frequent presenter at international conferences on the topics of Future of Work; People Analytics and Technology; Employee Experience; and Intelligent Automation in the Workplace. She is a Senior Fellow with the Conference Board and is the Academic in Residence with Executive Networks. She is the former Executive Editor of People+Strategy Journal, a publication of SHRM’s Executive Network and she is currently an Associate Editor of Workforce Solutions Review, a publication of the International Association for Human Resource Information Management and The Journal of Total Rewards, a publication of WorldatWork.

Stephen Badger

Stephen has a deep passion for the power of coaching, having benefited from it in business as well as life and witnessed its transformative power with many individuals, in both a personal and professional capacity.

He attended Duke University, Reed College, and graduated from Union Institute in Cincinnati with a BA in Anthropology.

Stephen was deeply involved as an investor and ultimately as the President of Seeds of Change, an organic seed and food company, from 1992-2004, before his appointment as the Global Director of Corporate Affairs for Mars, Incorporated. In March of 2008, Stephen joined the Mars Board and became Chairman in 2011, completing his first three-year term. As Chairman, he oversaw the creation of Mars’ first ever 25 year Vision and significantly evolved the Board to be more strategic and intentional. In March of 2017 he assumed the Chairmanship again (rotating off in March of 2020), having overseen the creation of the first Purpose for the company in its history: “The world we want tomorrow starts with the how we do business today.” Stephen also stewarded the creation of the Compass, a four quadrant model with the Purpose at its center that sets targets, which include non-financial metrics like positive social impact.

Other board service include The Association for Traditional Arts, the Muscle Shoals Music Foundation, and the Economics of Mutuality Foundation.

Stephen also produced the documentary Muscle Shoals, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013 to a standing ovation. The film was sold around the world, including to PBS’ premiere network ITVS in the United States. Stephen thrives on time in nature, whether that be hiking, skiing, or mountain biking–and loves doing all three with his son, his partner Beth and friends.