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Echo, Los Angeles, CA (2026)

04/14/2026

This groundbreaking conference on trauma-informed reporting from New York Press Club and Women's Justice NOW is a one-day event designed to change how stories about gender-based violence are told.

Bringing together journalists, survivors, and leading experts, including Echo Executive Director, Louise Godbold. This conference offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from survivors about their experiences with the media—what it gets right, what it gets wrong, and what must change.

📅 Saturday, April 25, 2026
🕒 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
📍 New York City
🎟️ $40 ($25 for students; breakfast & lunch included)

Find out more at www.nypressclub.org/covering-trauma-respecting-survivors

04/09/2026

In a powerful episode of Resiliency Within, host Elaine Miller-Karas of the Trauma Resource Institute is joined by Echo Executive Director, Louise Godbold, to explore the critical role of survivor agency in trauma recovery. Together, they discuss why restoring power and control to the survivor is essential for trauma recovery and how that is sometimes overlooked in systems that are not structured to foster true collaboration.

Louise shares insights from her work with survivors of high-profile abusers, highlighting the added layers of complexity and harm that can come with public disclosure, including media retraumatization.

In light of recent public conversations—including the courage of Dolores Huerta and her allegations against César Chávez—this episode also reflects on the immense courage it takes for survivors to come forward, particularly when speaking about powerful and widely respected figures. Survivor disclosure often carries a heavy personal cost—from public scrutiny filled with disbelief and ridicule, to attacks by paid trolls and the threat of defamation lawsuits. This retraumatization can lead to shattered careers, broken families, and serious physical and emotional health struggles. And yet most survivors are compelled to tell their story and seek justice.

Don't miss this eye-opening conversation about trauma, justice, and the power of resilience - APRIL 16.

www.traumaresourceinstitute.com/resiliency-within-podcast

04/08/2026

May is packed with more opportunities to build your capacity to support recovery, resilience, and trauma-informed care.

From mindfulness and neuroscience to practical application and storytelling, each session offers practical tools you can immediately integrate into your work with individuals and communities.

MAY 11 | Trauma-Informed Mindfulness (In-person)
Learn how to safely adapt mindfulness practices to support regulation, reduce harm, and promote healing for trauma survivors.

MAY 13–14 | Trauma & Resilience Part I (Virtual)
Build a strong foundation in how trauma impacts the brain, body, and behavior, and what fosters resilience and recovery.

MAY 21 | From Principles to Practice: Becoming Trauma-Informed (Virtual)
Turn knowledge into action by applying core principles like safety, trust, and agency in your everyday work.

MAY 28 | Trauma-Informed Journalism (Virtual)
Gain skills to share survivor stories ethically and accurately, avoiding retraumatization while supporting healing.

JUN 4 | Trauma-Informed Interviewing (Virtual)
Trauma-informed Interviewing gives you a brief overview of the impact of trauma as well as practical tips on how to support a trauma survivor during an interview.

Together, these trainings create a clear pathway from understanding trauma to confidently applying trauma-informed approaches in your work.

Reserve your spot today by registering at www.echotraining.org/calendar

04/07/2026

Catch Echo Executive Director Louise Godbold at a groundbreaking conference on trauma-informed reporting presented by New York Press Club Foundation and Women’s Justice NOW.
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Covering Trauma: Respecting Survivors is a one-day event designed to change how stories about gender-based violence are told. Bringing together journalists, survivors, and leading experts, including Echo Executive Director, Louise Godbold. This conference offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from survivors about their experiences with the media—what it gets right, what it gets wrong, and what must change.

With a documentary screening, candid conversations, and actionable sessions, this event is built for reporters, editors, and storytellers committed to producing rigorous journalism without causing harm.

📅 Saturday, April 25, 2026
🕒 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
📍 New York City
🎟️ $40 ($25 for students; breakfast & lunch included)

Tickets available here: www.nypressclub.org/covering-trauma-respecting-survivors

03/05/2026

Early bird pricing has been extended — but only through the end of this week!

This is your final opportunity to save on two powerful, practice-changing trainings designed to deepen trauma-informed skills and strengthen regulation, connection, and resilience.

VIRTUAL: Trauma Responsive Play (NEW & IMPROVED) | March 25
www.echotraining.org/event/trp0326
This updated training now includes even more hands-on activities and ready-to-use strategies.

You’ll learn how to use play to rebuild safety and secure attachment, support emotional regulation, calm children’s stress responses, and strengthen parent–child relationships after adversity. You’ll leave with practical tools you can begin using immediately in your practice — or at home.

IN-PERSON: Applied Neuroscience for Trauma Recovery & Resilience A Brain Partnership Approach | March 26
www.echotraining.org/event/hav0326
Join us for a full-day immersive experience integrating neuroscience, somatic regulation, and compassion-based neuroplasticity.

You’ll learn how to work with the nervous system rather than against it, shift overwhelm into clarity and choice, and apply brain-based tools that build lasting resilience.

Secure your early bird rate before it expires at the end of the week!

02/26/2026

Two practical trainings. One shared goal: helping children grow, feel secure, and thrive.

HEALTHY BRAINS, HAPPY LIVES: PROMOTING OPTIMAL BRAIN DEVELOPMENT (MAR 10) with Bette Lamont explores how children’s brains grow through movement in the earliest years of life. You’ll learn what the Developmental Sequence is, why it matters, and how gaps in early movement can affect learning, behavior, and emotional regulation. This workshop offers clear, hands-on strategies you can use right away in classrooms, childcare settings, therapy spaces, and at home to support healthy brain development.

TRAUMA RESPONSIVE PLAY (MAR 25) focuses on the healing power of play. When children experience stress or trauma, their nervous systems can stay on high alert. This training shows you how simple, playful interactions can help children feel safe again, manage big feelings, and build stronger connections with the adults in their lives. You’ll leave with practical tools to support emotional regulation, attachment, and resilience in everyday moments.

Movement builds the brain. Play restores connection. Together, these trainings give you simple, effective ways to support healthier, happier lives.

For more information, go to the links below:
www.echotraining.org/event/ndm0326
www.echotraining.org/event/trp0326

02/11/2026

We’ve listened to your feedback and are excited to share a new and enhanced version of Trauma-Responsive Play, now with even more hands-on activities and practical skills you can use immediately in your professional work or parenting.

This highly interactive training builds on what we know about the impacts of trauma to help you better reach and engage children, support healing, and strengthen responsive, secure relationships between children and their caregivers after adversity.

You’ll learn how to intentionally use playful moments to:
- Foster secure attachment and connection
- Support emotion regulation
- Calm and manage children’s stress responses—without escalating power struggles

After the training, you’ll walk away with a deeper understanding of how play-based supports for trauma in early and middle childhood offer a powerful “second language of play” for expressing, processing, and releasing trauma while strengthening their most important caregiving relationships.

Join us to learn practical strategies that help balance a child’s stress response system, so they can move forward feeling more capable, worthy, and secure in themselves and the key figures in their lives.

TRAUMA RESPONSIVE PLAY
March 25, 2026 | 9am - 12:30pm
www.echotraining.org/event/trp0326

02/04/2026

March brings three powerful opportunities to deepen your understanding of brain development, trauma-responsive care, and nervous system resilience.

Join Echo next month for trainings designed for educators, clinicians, caregivers, and parents seeking practical, brain-based tools that foster healing, connection, and growth.

Virtual | HEALTHY BRAINS, HAPPY LIVES: PROMOTING OPTIMAL BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
Tues, March 10, 2026 | 9:00 am–1:30 pm PST
www.echotraining.org/event/ndm0326

This engaging 4-hour virtual workshop with Bette Lamont introduces NeuroDevelopmental Movement® (NDM®) and the Developmental Sequence—the natural progression of movement that supports healthy brain integration. Participants will explore how early sensory and motor experiences shape learning, behavior, and emotional regulation, and how trauma, injury, or missed movement opportunities can disrupt this process. You’ll leave with practical strategies you can use immediately in classrooms, care settings, movement spaces, or at home to support healthy development.

Virtual | TRAUMA- RESPONSIVE PLAY
Wed, March 25, 2026 | 9:00 am–12:30 pm PST
www.echotraining.org/event/trp0326

Play is one of the most powerful ways children communicate, connect, and heal. This newly expanded and highly interactive training offers more hands-on tools and simple strategies to help children feel safer, more regulated, and more connected after stressful or traumatic experiences. Together, we’ll explore how playful moments can strengthen relationships, support emotional regulation, and create a sense of calm and trust for both children and adults.

In-Person | APPLIED NEUROSCIENCE FOR TRAUMA RECOVERY AND RESILIENCE: A BRAIN PARTNERSHIP APPROACH
THU, MARCH 26, 2026 | 9:00 am–4:30 pm PST
www.echotraining.org/event/hav0326

This full-day, in-person training offers an approachable look at how the brain and nervous system respond to stress and trauma, and how healing happens. Through gentle, body-based practices and compassion-focused tools, this training emphasizes working with the nervous system rather than against it to create lasting, sustainable change.

Join us this March to build skills that support healing, resilience, and connection across the lifespan.

REGISTER BELOW to save your spot today!
www.echoparenting.org/calendar
**Interested but can't make the dates for our virtual trainings? Registrants will be allowed to view the recording for up to one week post training! CE's cannot be distributed to those solely viewing the recording!**

12/16/2025

Trauma-Informed Care = Survivor Voice + Choice

At Echo, we believe in the empowerment of trauma survivors, by which we mean coming alongside trauma survivors and helping them step into their own power.

The main way we do this is through psychoeducation. Once we, as trauma survivors, understand the changes in our brain and body as a result of trauma – and how that then may show up in the ways we relate to the world – we gain relief in knowing we are not "crazy", "broken" or imagining things.

Echo’s trainings also teach emotional regulation skills because until we as trauma survivors are able to access the higher brain we will continue to react from a place of trauma in fight, flight, freeze or appease mode.

There are very many organizations training professionals in trauma-informed care, but very few that take as an inviolable starting point that survivors must be the drivers of this work. Without survivor voice and choice, we perpetuate the dynamics of abuse.

Please consider making a donation to our educational programs and help us protect the dignity and agency of every survivor.

www.echotraining.org/donate/

12/02/2025

Support Echo and Our Work With Survivors

Trauma doesn't go away, it will likely come back in waves – on anniversaries, when forming relationships, becoming a parent, visiting family... Sometimes it takes a whole lifetime just to pick through it all.

However, what was at first terrifying, a tsunami of pain, becomes more manageable until the ripples wash over our feet and we think, "Oh yes, here we go again. I will get through this and come out the other side stronger, truer, deeper and wiser."

Echo is there to help you take the first step to recovery, which is understanding your trauma and learning some skills for when your body and brain react to past painful events.

We also provide parenting classes that discuss not only the role of generational trauma, but also how to break that cycle by learning communication skills so that we can connect with our children and create the safe, stable nurturing relationship they need to grow and thrive.

Please support our vital work with trauma survivors by
making a donation to Echo today.

11/04/2025

At Echo, our number one interest is restoring voice and choice to survivors. This November, we are offering two powerful virtual trainings designed to help professionals better support trauma survivors with compassion, understanding, and confidence.

🗓 November 7 — Supporting Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse & Sexual Violence in Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Parenting
www.echotraining.org/event/ssc0925
In partnership with Cactus In Bloom, this training explores how past experiences of sexual abuse or violence can resurface during pregnancy and parenting. You’ll gain practical tools, grounding practices, and trauma-informed ways to create safety—for survivors and for yourself.

🗓 November 18 — Trauma-Informed Interviewing
www.echotraining.org/event/tii1125
For anyone who interviews or supports trauma survivors, this session offers insight into how trauma affects memory and communication. Learn how to build trust, reduce stress, and guide conversations that are not only effective but deeply healing.

Whether you’re supporting survivors professionally or personally, these trainings offer connection, insight, and a path toward collective healing.

Join us by registering at the link below.
https://www.echoparenting.org/calendar/

**Interested but can't make the dates? Registrants will be allowed to view the events for up to one week post training! CE's cannot be distributed to those solely viewing the recording**

10/21/2025

FINAL CALL: Trauma-Informed Trainings You Won’t Want to Miss!

Don’t miss these powerful trauma-informed trainings designed to support both personal healing and professional growth.

🎨 CREATIVE ARTS FOR TRAUMA RECOVERY
THIS FRIDAY, Oct 24
www.echotraining.org/event/catr1025
In partnership with HaGomel, this hands-on, experiential training explores how expressive arts and mindfulness can support trauma recovery. Learn how survivors can release fear, build self-regulation, and reconnect with a sense of self through creative and mindful approaches.

- The neurobiology of safety
- Mindfulness + creative exercises for healing
- Use creative techniques for emotional awareness

🧠 TRAUMA & RESILIENCE PT. I
Next week, Oct 28 & 29
www.echotraining.org/event/trt1025
Get grounded in the latest neuroscience and research on trauma and resilience. Understand how early experiences shape the brain, body, and emotional development—and how healing occurs through safe, supportive relationships.

- Trauma’s impact on the brain + body
- ACEs, survival responses, and regulation strategies
- Principles of trauma-informed care

Register now to gain practical tools, deep insight, and renewed inspiration.

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