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Connecting After Trauma

Kiva Centers’ Connecting After Trauma training is a condensed 2-hour version of our Peer Trauma Guide, designed for both clinicians and people looking to enter the peer workforce. This training explores the expansive impact of trauma through personal, intergenerational, systemic, and historical lenses. Participants learn how to build rapport and “go deeper” than traditional, symptom-focused […]

Restoring Balance After Causing Professional Harm

This course examines the tension between the principle of Do No Harm and the reality that, as humans, we inevitably cause harm in our professional lives, even while delivering trauma-informed care. Grounded in Indigenous principles of restorative justice, the training explores the trauma of causing trauma, how to address harm when it occurs, and how […]

Cultural Humility

A central component of the successful delivery of trauma-informed care is the ability to effectively communicate and partner with people from varied cultural backgrounds. Participants will be exposed to a wide breadth of lived experiences in order to increase reflective thinking skills and awareness around our own empathy gaps, cultural assumptions, and hidden prejudices that […]

Disability Justice

Too often, mental health is treated as separate from physical health and disability. This training reframes the conversation through a whole-person lens, emphasizing the inseparable connections between body, mind, and lived experience. It is designed to bridge the peer support and recovery movement with the principles of disability justice, highlighting how experiences such as unmanaged […]

Do No Harm: Anti-Oppression Training

This training explores what it truly means to “do no harm” in our work, our communities, and ourselves. Over time, microaggressions, prejudice, and systemic inequities reinforce this belief, deepening isolation and pushing people into echo chambers where healing and connection feel out of reach. Through dialogue, lived experience storytelling, and practice-based learning, participants will examine […]

Gender Affirming Care 101

This training emphasizes that respect and dignity are the first step in building trust—the foundation needed to reach deeper conversations about trauma, healing, and recovery. Participants will explore practical aspects of gender affirmation such as pronouns, clothing, being closeted, and questioning, while also recognizing that gender identity is only one part of a person’s broader […]

Health Equity Training*

This training is designed for clinicians to learn directly from peer support workers, bringing lived experience storytelling to the forefront as a paradigm shift in how we understand mental health, illness and recovery. Instead of viewing diagnosis as a fixed identity, participants will explore how social determinants of health, environment, history, and relationships shape well-being. […]

Peer Support as an Indigenous Practice

This training explores the vital role of peer support, relationships, and genuine human connection in re-indigenizing and decolonizing society. Peer support is not a new idea—it is deeply rooted in Indigenous traditions, where healing occurs in sacred circles, through storytelling, and with the guidance of ancestral practices. By drawing on these values, peer support offers […]

Creating a Trauma-Informed Workplace

A 2-hour training for corporations and non-mental health / human service workforces focused on employee wellness. Participants will learn trauma-informed management practices, the difference between short-term coping and long-term supports, and strategies to foster staff well-being across the eight dimensions of wellness.