Wounds Unseen: Navigating Trauma and Grief in Rehabilitation
Learn how trauma and grief shape behaviour in correctional settings and how to provide effective support without retraumatizing or burning out.
Upcoming Run: 14th Mar 2026
Upcoming Run: 14th Mar 2026
Wounds Unseen: Navigating Trauma and Grief in Rehabilitation
SPS-006-TNG
$0.00
Duration: 8.00 hours
Upcoming Run: 14th Mar 2026
Sign Up nowCourse Fees & ScheduleWhat is it about?
Do you find it hard to connect with someone who seems angry or withdrawn?
Have you ever misread a reaction, only to realise later it came from pain, not defiance?
Do you know how to hold space for someone grieving even if they can’t show it?
Trauma and grief are often silent, but their impact is loud. They show up as aggression, isolation, or chaos.
This course helps you understand what drives these behaviours in incarcerated individuals and how to engage without re-opening wounds. You’ll gain tools to support others in pain, and strategies to care for yourself along the way.
What Is This Module About?
Wounds Unseen is an 8-hour virtual training that explores the hidden emotional forces behind many correctional behaviours: trauma and grief.
You’ll learn:
What trauma looks like and how it feels in the body and brain
How loss is experienced behind bars, where grief is often unspoken
How trauma shapes responses (fight, flight, freeze, fawn)
What it means to be trauma-informed and grief-aware
How to support others while managing your own emotional load
Through lived-experience stories, real-life case studies, and guided practice, this session helps you show up with empathy not assumptions.
How This Course Makes a Difference
Correctional work often asks us to respond to behaviour but what if we could respond to pain?
This module trains you to see beyond surface reactions. You’ll learn how trauma and grief shape people’s actions, and how to support healing without sacrificing your own emotional health.
Understand Trauma in Correctional Settings
Learn how trauma affects brain and behaviour and why correctional environments can re-trigger old wounds.
Recognise Grief Behind Bars
Explore the unique losses faced in incarceration and how unresolved grief can manifest as emotional volatility or shutdown.
Respond Without Retraumatizing
Practise language, listening, and body cues that promote safety and regulation, not fear or shame.
Work with the Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn
Recognise what’s happening beneath defensive or passive behaviour and learn how to de-escalate it.
Support Grief with Presence and Validation
You can’t fix someone’s pain, but you can honour it. Learn simple, powerful ways to hold space for healing.
Care for Yourself as You Care for Others
Learn how to protect your emotional wellbeing and manage vicarious trauma in your helping role.
Who is it for?
Ready to Support Others Through Invisible Pain?
Whether you’re volunteering in prisons, guiding reintegration, or supporting emotional recovery, this module helps you understand trauma and grief through a lens of compassion with clear tools to support others and protect yourself.
🙋 Volunteers in Correctional and Community Settings
This module equips you with trauma-informed and grief-aware practices to support clients experiencing emotional volatility or shutdown.
🧠 Rehabilitation & Mental Wellness Advocates
Whether you work in recovery, behavioural change, or reintegration, you’ll gain tools to hold space for complex grief and trauma narratives.
📚 Mentors, Coaches, and Peer Supporters
Support others with greater insight into emotional pain, while learning how to set boundaries that keep your care sustainable.
🧑⚕️ Case Workers, Counsellors, and Reintegration Staff
Complement your professional practice with trauma-sensitive frameworks, grief-engagement techniques, and sustainable self-care tools.
👮 Correctional Officers & System Partners
Understand the emotional drivers behind certain behavioural patterns and how trauma-informed interactions can promote safer environments.
Why Learn with Us
Hands-On & Practical
We believe the best learning happens by doing. Our courses are highly experiential, packed with real-life case studies, role-plays, and interactive group work. You won’t just sit through slides; you’ll practise the skills that matter.
Learn from the Best
Our trainers are experienced practitioners, not just facilitators. They’ve walked the talk and brought wisdom from the field, not just the textbook. Learn from people who’ve been there and are here to help you grow.
Fun, Safe & Engaging
Learning should feel energising. We foster a warm, inclusive environment where you're encouraged to ask, reflect, laugh, and learn all while building supportive relationships with fellow participants.
Backed by Research
Every course is grounded in evidence-based practices from psychology, social work, education, and communication science. You get practical tools that work not just trendy jargon.
Designed for Real Life
Our content is real-world-ready. Whether you're navigating tough conversations at home, supporting others in your role, or developing your own mindset, what you learn is instantly applicable.
Lifelong Learning Community
When you join us, you join a movement. All alumni get access to follow-up events, peer circles, and exclusive learning spaces. You stay connected, supported, and part of something bigger, long after the course ends.
Meet your trainers
Nuraishah Abdullah
Counsellor | Creative Arts Therapist | Correctional Practitioner
Nuraishah brings nearly two decades of experience in correctional counselling, trauma-informed therapy, and community mental health. She served extensively in the Singapore Prison Service, supporting youth and adult offenders through emotional regulation, family work, and recovery programs. Today, she runs Attuned Space Art Therapy, helping individuals navigate emotional trauma and life transitions in both clinical and community settings.
- •Counsellor | Creative Arts Therapist
Joelle Tan
Senior Counsellor | Social Worker | Prison Officer (Retired)
Joelle brings over 20 years of correctional experience, with a focus on addiction, maladaptive behaviours, and trauma-related rehabilitation. She has designed and delivered impactful programmes across Singapore’s correctional landscape, with a gift for connecting deeply with youth and women offenders. Trained in social work and counselling, Joelle continues to serve in restorative and rehabilitative spaces.
- •Social Worker / Counsellor
How will the course run?
📌 Course Access Information
This is a 1-day online training. The session will be conducted via Zoom, and access details will be emailed to you upon confirmation of your registration.
📞 For assistance or enquiries, please contact Ally at allynna@blendedconcept.com.
| Date | Start Time | End Time | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-26 | 09:00 | 17:00 | Online |
Course Fees
| Course Structure | Fee (Net Fee after training grant subsidy) |
|---|---|
| Free (Sponsored by Singapore Prison Service)This course is complimentary for volunteers and staff from partner organizations of the Singapore Prison Service. | Free |