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Leading Through a Trauma Informed Lens

Supporting your ECE team's mental health through a trauma-informed leadership lens with James McTaggart.
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Trauma-Informed Practice Starts at the Top.

You've heard the term. You may have even introduced it to your team. But what does it actually mean to lead a trauma-informed service — not just in theory, but in the way you manage people, build systems, and shape the culture of your setting every single day?

This webinar is for the leaders ready to go deeper.

Join James McTaggart for a thought-provoking and practical exploration of trauma-informed practice through a leadership lens — because sustainable, whole-service change doesn't begin in the classroom. It begins with you.

Presented By

James McTaggart

Webinar Duration

Approximately 45 minutes
Live at Thursday 13th August 2026 1:30pm NZST

Skill Level

Suitable for experienced managers

What will you learn?

What You'll Explore

  • Trauma-informed leadership unpacked — what it looks like in practice beyond policy and procedure
  • Understanding your team through a trauma-informed lens — recognising that educators, like the children they care for, bring their own histories and stress responses to work
  • Secondary traumatic stress and burnout — how to identify it in your team and create conditions that support educator wellbeing
  • Building trauma-informed systems and structures — from onboarding and supervision to behaviour guidance policies and family communication
  • Leading a culture of psychological safety — where staff feel seen, supported, and empowered to show up fully
  • Embedding whole-service change — practical steps to move trauma-informed practice from individual awareness to organisational commitment
Certificate of completion provided for your professional learning records
About the presenters

James McTaggart

James is an educational psychologist with nearly 20 years’ specialist experience in early childhood and psychological trauma. He is one of the writers of Scotland’s national practice guidance for early learning and childcare, Realising the Ambition. A popular trainer and speaker, he has worked with many children, practitioners and families facing challenges. As a survivor of childhood trauma himself, he is passionate about applying this learning to help show how early education practitioners can make a lifetime’s difference for all children.

His recently published book, Trauma-Informed Practice in Early Education, has been welcomed as “an essential resource” (Lisa Cherry) and can be obtained from all online booksellers and from the publisher via: Trauma-Informed Practice in Early Education: Making a Lifetime’s Difference

What others said about this webinar:

Acknowledging the reality and then providing solutions. i loved the last discussion with Angela.
— MANJU
Learning different techniques and knowing what strategies I use are effective
— MICHELLE
Really informative and relevant to real-life situations. Thanks, ladies! Loved it 
— TESS

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