“It’s easier to work with trauma once you learn to work without it.”
— Steven Hoskinson
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For Therapists, Coaches, and Helping Professionals
Fundamentals of Post-Trauma Growth reveals a landscape of healing beyond trauma theories dating back to Freud. This course ushers in a new era of healing: a post-trauma era. Grow your ability to empower your clients by understanding attunement as what their unique neurobiology is ready for. By charting the trajectory from trauma to Post-Trauma Growth (PTG), Organic Intelligence® offers a proven roadmap for anyone who wishes to help in ways that are safer, more effective, more enjoyable, and—most importantly—aligned with clients’ natural, biological impulse for healing and growing. Taught around the world to thousands of trauma therapists, you can learn this process with the convenience of home study, and lifetime access. Work at your own pace and implement the skills to begin to see Organic Intelligence working right away.
Embody the healing
Everything you need to put Post-Trauma Growth to work in your practice! Get the full PTG theory, cutting edge neuroscience, easy-to-implement “how-to’s”, and real demonstration sessions! (6 CEs Available)
There’s a clear, step-by-step framework that catalyzes biological organization—the long-sought-after answer to autonomic dysregulation, which is the root of trauma.
An array of symptoms trace back to dysregulation, or disautonomia. Once understood, simple PTG tools begin to stabilize a patient’s entire presentation…so the work can begin.
If you want to make a meaningful difference, this course introduces you to the curriculum and mindset that will give you the skills and necessary confidence. The OI understanding of trauma and organic healing will unite your personal and professional journey.
Upgrade your current practice with science-backed methods that honor the body’s wisdom. Learn the conversational methods that make you a sustainable resource for clients. Help them experience their own self-organization—whether hands on or off.
Healing polarization is of the essence. The union of doing and Being are found in this method of therapeutic inclusivity. Find how to understand what is arising in clients as aspects of their deepest wisdom—the shared legacy of us all.
Course Format
On-demand recorded sessions including presentation, Q&A, and demonstration—available with lifetime access.
Hours
Parts
CEs Available
Bonus Resources
Course Contents
Part 1
Orientation
Neuroscience points to the centrality of Orientation, which OI defines as “connecting to the environment through the senses.” Orientation, when presented at the optimal moment, creates the neural foundation for the entirety of OI’s positive reinforcement framework. In this section, Steve cites the science behind the developmental milestones that lead to the essence of Post-Trauma Growth: biological Auto-Organization. Included are a host of stabilization tools to use both personally and professionally.
Part 2
Positivity & Complexity
Citing the research of positive psychology and complexity science, the timing of interventions that turn helpful states into lasting traits is discussed. Because we are humans, we are sensitive to initial conditions and attunement, but more than just about anything…timing matters. The complexity of our organism that exists in its cycles of UPs and DOWNS (circadian, cellular, respiratory sinus arrythmia) is simplified just enough to recognize and facilitate the cycles that sync. Out of sync is out of sorts. Sync is the return to living. Like easy breathing in, and out…
Part 3
Readiness
The client’s readiness is a way we think about attunement—working within the range of the client’s readiness. Attunement is typically thought of as emotional attunement. Organic Intelligence teaches attunement as a clinical assessment of biological readiness. This ‘readiness’ becomes visible in the client’s Image, Sensation, Orientation, Meaning and Affect (ISOMA). These ISOMA Channels reveal thresholds of intensity that the client is ready to receive—or not. Such careful attunement helps the clinician/coach actually SEE states that reflect self-organizing trends and stay away from intensity levels that could otherwise be disorganizing. We’ll learn about thresholds, and OI’s surprising positive intensity ethos: “The Window of Enjoyment.”
Consultation
Q&A Session
Key questions are raised by therapists and coaches about how to integrate OI’s Post-Trauma Growth methodology. In OI, questions are appreciated, because the mapping of therapeutic interventions is a large-scale clinical mapping of organic developmental stages. Your application of therapeutic ideas to specific client situations is aided by the OI Attunement map, which clarifies what interventions are attuned for clients’ level of biological resilience and organization—from chaotic, to self-regulating, to auto-regulating. Attunement means the proper, and particular, therapeutic stance for each of these.
Included
Bonus Resources
The Bonus resources include an hourlong interview with OI Founder, Steve Hoskinson, that is a very approachable overview of the Organic Intelligence framework. Additionally, there are two worksheets that distill some of the key concepts and provide easy-to-use exercises that give an experiential understanding of how we build organic resilience. These resources help make this course practical and experiential—and an unforgettable, perhaps even life-changing experience!
Start Using Your Tools Right Away!
Fundamentals of Post-Trauma Growth will help you be more confident with clients because your clients will realize immediate benefit. Especially in the early going, the PTG teachings on Orientation, enhanced Attunement, and empowerment create ease in stabilization—which might help you rest easier too!
How to apply OI’s Orientation both personally and professionally—and in sync with the client’s readiness!
Empower healing and growth of biological bandwidth through a clearly structured Positive Reinforcement paradigm. Growth of bandwidth means increased processing capacity, problem solving ability, and appreciation for complexity.
How to use enhanced Attunement for co-regulation based on OI maps and nuanced clinical observations of the client’s verbal and non-verbal presentation.
How to distinguish Orientation from other processes of effortful attention. Organicity is key—the enjoyable experience of allowing a natural process instead of always controlling things.
Integration and processing begin to happen organically, fostering Post-Trauma Growth and reducing burnout. It’s amazing what it’s like to hear clients come back to a session having a new lived experience of a new level of freedom…
Hope and growth are based in the trust that is built when clients feel you’re more deeply with them, and that their changes come from a place within them they’ve not felt before. It’s empowering, and the best we can offer those in our care.
The Fundamentals of Post-Trauma Growth is the first course in the OI™ Trajectory professional training series. Parts 2 and 3 are coming soon, building on these foundations with advanced clinical tools and practice. Fundamentals of PTG members receive a substantial discount on subsequent courses in the series—plus the CEs!
Course Format
On-demand recorded sessions including presentation, Q&A, and demonstration—available with lifetime access.
Your Instructor
Founder, Director of Education
Steve Hoskinson, MA, MAT is an internationally recognized teacher, author, and innovator in Post-Trauma Growth (PTG). For over 20 years he has been a presenter and professional trainer on the global stage, empowering thousands in response to large-scale societal needs.
Steve has worked as Adjunct Faculty for JFK School of Psychology, Advisory Board Member for The Trauma Foundation, and a founding member of the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) National Steering Committee. He has been featured in Dr. Mark Hyman’s “Broken Brain” docu-series, and numerous invited keynote addresses. He now offers the science-backed OI Trajectory™ professional training programs and education in Post-Trauma Growth.
Credentials & Training
Scientific mentors and thought leaders whose mentorship informs OI
25 Years of Impact
100+ Countries
1 Year Program
23 CEs Available
Post-Trauma Growth
Next Cohort Begins November 16, 2026
Get priority access to early bird enrollment with $500 off your tuition.
25 Years of Impact
10 Week Program
17 CEs Available
Post-Trauma Growth
