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Relational Trauma & the Brain: Practical Insights for Coaches

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Thursday, October 1, 2026, 12:00 PM until 1:30 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC-05:00)

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Relational Trauma & the Brain: Practical Insights for Coaches

Presented by Ursula Pottinga, CPCC, PCC

Program Description
Join neuroscience, leadership and coaching expert Ursula Pottinga for a fascinating look at Coaching, Relational Trauma & Neuroscience. Surprisingly, often clients may come to coaching carrying patterns shaped by difficult or harmful relationships—past or present. These experiences can influence trust, decision-making, boundaries, and how clients show up in life and work. In this webinar, we’ll look at what neuroscience tells us about relational trauma and how to recognize the impact on individuals you may be coaching. We’ll also look at we can do as coaches to support those affected.  

Learning Objectives:

In this session, you will:
-Understand the neuroscience behind relational trauma and its impact on behavior.
-How to recognize the signs of relational trauma in a client.
-How neuroscience can help us understand behaviors of both those who cause relational trauma and those affected by it.
-The critical impact of education for both practitioner and client.
-What’s different about coaching in this area.
-Explore coaching approaches that help clients build resilience, agency, and healthier relational patterns.

This session is designed for coaches who want to deepen their awareness, expand their neuroscience-informed toolkit, and hold space for clients with greater understanding and care.


About the Presenter

Ursula Pottinga, is a CPCC, PCC, and Certified Neurotransformational coach. She studied Neuroscience at the Mindsight Institute (Dr. Dan Siegel). In her Profound Growth coaching and training business she supports highly successful leaders break out of old patterns that hold them back from being the best version of themselves, impacting culture, relationships and creating new paths forward. She is also the founding partner of BEabove Leadership, where she has co-created and co-leads internationally BEabove’s flagship Advanced Coaching Program: Neuroscience, Consciousness and Transformational Coaching and the Relational Trauma Certification together with her business partner Ann Betz. 


Ursula draws on her 25 years of experience in international business and professional development to improve engagement, executive presence and change on a deep transformational level combining classic coaching skills with neuroscience concepts and tools. She is a masterful coach and experienced facilitator. She has co-authored a number of books and is a host of her own podcast “The Profound Leader” where she explores innovative ideas and thought-provoking conversations at the intersection of science, energy and systems.


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