Launch a Structured Men’s Trauma Group
For SUD and Mental Health Treatment
Equip experienced clinicians with a structured curriculum to trauma without destabilizing participants or leaving staff to invent the program themselves.
See How Our Training Can Support Your Team
Your clinicians know unresolved trauma is often connected to substance use. But knowing trauma is present is not the same as having a safe, consistent way to address it with men in a group setting.
This training gives experienced SUD and behavioral health professionals a structured 10-week curriculum for helping men approach trauma gradually.
Without forcing disclosure or moving into painful material before participants have the emotional regulation skills and group support to manage it.
Instead of asking your staff to create a program from scratch or improvise through anger, shutdown, and shame, you give them a practical framework they can confidently implement.
Your organization gains a specialized clinical group that can be consistently delivered, supported through supervision, and integrated into your existing treatment program.
Schedule a group training and follow it up with the train-the-trainer module to ensure the long-term success of your men’s trauma group.
Simplify the Work of Launching a Men’s Trauma Group. Prepare Your Team to Lead It With Confidence
- A Ready-to-Implement 10-Week Curriculum: Give your clinicians a clear sequence of sessions, activities, and facilitation tools so they do not have to spend months building and testing a program from scratch.
- Safer, More Skillful Trauma Facilitation: Train staff to recognize dysregulation, use attunement, and pace trauma work gradually—without forcing disclosure or moving participants into painful material before they have adequate support.
- A Gender-Responsive Approach: Help clinicians respond more effectively to the anger, shame, avoidance, vulnerability, and moral injury that can surface when men begin exploring trauma.
- Practical Tools Staff Can Use Immediately: Participants practice emotional regulation exercises, life timelines, genograms, storytelling, expressive arts, drumming, affirmations, group agreements, and integration activities.
- Consistency Across Facilitators: Establish a shared curriculum, language, and set of practices that supervisors can reinforce instead of having every clinician approach men’s trauma work differently.
- Training That Becomes a Clinical Service: Your team leaves with more than trauma theory. They gain the structure and facilitation framework to add a specialized men’s trauma group to your treatment program.
Men’s Trauma Group Training is for organizations that need to…
- Better engage men who shut down, become angry, or withdraw when trauma work shows up.
- Address the unresolved trauma contributing to repeated return to use—without pushing clients into disclosure before they are ready.
- Help clinicians move beyond recognizing trauma to knowing how to pace and facilitate the work safely.
- Create a consistent approach to men’s trauma work that supervisors can support across clinicians and programs.
- Reach men who struggle to participate in direct, talk-heavy approaches.
- Expand gender-responsive programming without spending months creating and testing a new group internally.
When trauma continues to shape behavior, standard treatment approaches can only take your clients so far.
Give your team a more effective way to reach the men your current programming may be missing.
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Easily download the course guide. Then, print or forward it to the decision-makers in your organization.
Launch the Program Now.
Build the Capacity to Sustain It.
Choose the level of training that fits your organization’s immediate needs and long-term goals.
Men’s Trauma Group Cohort Training
Prepare a cohort of experienced clinicians to facilitate the structured 10-week Men’s Trauma Group within your treatment setting.
Your team learns how to pace the work, maintain group safety, recognize dysregulation, and guide experiential expressive art activities that help men approach trauma without requiring immediate disclosure.
Staff leave with a shared curriculum and a practical framework they can begin implementing together.
Best for organizations ready to launch the group with a designated team of facilitators.
Cohort Training + Train the Trainer
Add the Train-the-Trainer program to develop internal leaders who can support the continued success of the Men’s Trauma Group.
Your trainers will be prepared to reinforce the model, support facilitators, and help bring future staff into the program. Protecting your investment as employees change and your services expand.
Best for organizations that want to make the Men’s Trauma Group a sustainable part of their treatment program across staff, teams, or locations
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Not Sure if the Men’s Trauma Group Training Is What Your Team Needs?
- Do men shut down, become angry, or disengage when trauma surfaces? Give your clinicians a gradual approach that builds emotional regulation, safety, and group support before moving into deeper work.
- Does your team recognize trauma but feel unsure about addressing it? Move clinicians from trauma awareness to a clear facilitation model they can use with confidence.
- Are talk-heavy approaches like CBT failing to reach the men in your program? Help participants explore difficult experiences through timelines, genograms, storytelling, and creative activities—without requiring immediate disclosure.
- Is every clinician approaching men’s trauma differently? Create a shared structure that can be reinforced through supervision and delivered consistently across facilitators.
- Do you want to add a men’s trauma group without spending months developing one internally? Prepare a cohort of clinicians to implement a complete 10-week program within your existing treatment setting.
- Do you need the program to remain strong as your organization grows or staffing changes? Add the Train-the-Trainer option to build internal leadership and support the program’s long-term success.
Your team will leave this knowing how to effectively…
- Implement a 10-week men’s trauma group curriculum.
- Guide participants through emotional regulation strategies, life timelines, and genograms.
- Integrate expressive arts, drumming, storytelling, and affirmations into group sessions.
- Implement group agreements, including the ‘Ouch’ and ‘Parking Lot’ tools, to foster safety and respect.
- Close groups with integration activities, affirmations, and a family sculpt exercise.
Add the Train-the-Trainer module to ensure longevity and success.
Course Curriculum
DAY ONE
Module 1: Welcome
- Introductions, Training Goals, & Group Agreements
Module 2: Emotional Regulation
- Explore grounding and self-regulation tools and expressive arts warm-ups
Module 3: Life Timeline
- Learn to sequence trauma and SUD onset, as well as resilience mapping.
- Practice Activity: Timeline drawing, sharing, and debrief.
Module 4: Genogram Foundations
- Learn to map family systems, including trauma and cultural/religious factors.
Recap of Day 1 and warm-up drumming exercise.
DAY TWO
Module 5: Deep Dive
- Explore intergenerational and cultural/religious patterns. .
Module 6: Storytelling
- Learn to use narrative identity, reframing, and mask drawing exercises.
- Practice Activity: Sharing stories using affirmations with evidence.
Module 7: Integration
- Learn to facilitate recovery narratives using creative arts integration and affirmations.
Module 8: Closing Ritual
- Experience a family sculpt exercise and reflections.
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What do you offer SUD and behavioral health organizations?
Authentic Trainings offers practical, relatable training so your organization can grow a resilient, effective team with a proven record in SUD and mental health treatment for men.
We offer both virtual and live, in-person training to best meet your workforce development needs.
The optional train-the-trainer program ensures long-term, sustained success
Do you offer group pricing?
Yes. Contact us for pricing options.
Why trust Authentic Trainings?
Authentic Trainings is a team of Motivational Interviewing experts and Trauma-Responsive Care experts, some of whom have decades of clinical experience working with people in treatment and recovery. We are trusted authorities in client engagement and retention with advanced training in adult education.
Our team has worked in the trenches and understands the challenges today’s workforce faces with the opioid epidemic, traumatic events, mandated individuals, and growing caseload demands.
We specialize in advanced training to improve the skills of your existing workforce, evidence-based models proven to be effective, and mindfulness tools to reduce vicarious trauma and burnout in your organization.
Learn more about our team here.
When will we see results?
Immediately.
Once your staff learns the Men’s Trauma Group 10-Week Curriculum, your organization can immediately implement the skills.
The best part is that what your staff learns in this training is easily transferable to their treatment work.
What’s different about this training?
Authentic Trainings focuses on what’s practical and relatable. Our curriculum is expertly designed to bridge prior learning and experiences with new knowledge and skills.
Our training provides a multidisciplinary approach. Our instructors are adult education authorities and MINT trainers with decades of experience in mental health, criminal justice, substance use disorder, and beyond.
The training comes complete with demonstrations, exercises, slide decks, printable handouts and learning guides.
What CEs are available?
12 Continuing education hours are available for Credential Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselors (CASAC) through NYS OASAS
This training is approved for 12 Continuing Education hours for CASAC through NYS OASAS.