Course overview of Healing Environments
This Healing Environments course is designed to help you understand how the environment can support recovery from trauma.
It explores the soothing and stimulating effects of different environmental aspects, including sensory influences, and how adjusting the environment can help children and young people manage their behaviour more effectively.
This course is suitable for people working in children’s services or residential childcare.
Course content
This course will cover:
- Introduction
- Practical Ideas
- Resources
- Summary

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Aims of Healing Environments course
By the end of this course, you will:
- Learn the impact of the environment on recovery from trauma.
- Learn the soothing and stimulating effects of different aspects of the environment, such as the impact of senses.
- Learn how changing the environment can help children and young people to manage their behaviour more effectively.
What audience is this online course suitable for?
This Healing Environments course has been designed specifically for anyone who want to create supportive, trauma-informed environments that promote wellbeing and positive behaviour in children and young people they care for.
This course is suitable for people working in children’s services or residential childcare.









