Breaking the Cycle
Helping you understand the deeper story behind family struggles—and how to support lasting change.
What is this about?
How does trauma get passed from one generation to the next—and what can we do to stop the cycle?
In this short, insightful course, we explore the concept of intergenerational trauma and its powerful impact on parenting, attachment, and child development. Designed for professionals working with families, Breaking the Cycle offers a clear and compassionate overview of how trauma shapes family patterns, behaviours, and relationships—and how healing can begin.
Through real-world examples and evidence-based insights, you'll gain practical tools to support families in building resilience, breaking harmful cycles, and creating safer, more nurturing environments for children.
Intergenerational Trauma
By completing this course, you'll learn:
About the concept of intergenerational trauma and its impact on parenting practices and child development.
To recognize common patterns and behaviours that may signal unresolved trauma within families.
About foundational insights and approaches to begin supporting families in breaking harmful cycles and fostering resilience.
The questions people ask before saying “Yes!” to this course
The single video can be viewed in just under 30 minutes. You can watch it all in one sitting or break it up into times convenient to you. You can access the talk repeatedly and whenever suits you.
There are no self-study worksheets or activities for this talk. Just practical steps to help you in practice.
Yes, the course is designed for you to go through it as fast or as slow as you would like. Just log in and pick up where you left off, repeat parts you’ve already watched or watch the entire video in one sitting. The choice is yours.
You will be able to log in and access the talk for the lifetime of the course at Arise Family. There is no expiration date for your access, and you can return and re-do the course as often as you need to. In the future event of Arise Family ever retiring the course, you will be given appropriate notice and time to complete any outstanding lessons.
While all our facilitators are accredited professionals with their various professional governing bodies, the talk is not specifically accredited. The talk is designed to provide you with introductory information that is relevant and up to date.
All your details and information collected by Arise Family are kept confidential and records are maintained as governed by the POPI Act. Our privacy policy can be accessed on our site. If you are completing this course as part of your preparation and counselling with an accredited adoption agency and were provided a code by them to access the course, please know that your adoption social work team will be able to access details regarding your progress in the course and completion dates.