The Red Stool Webinars | Trauma 2 Triumph

Blunt. Honest. Refreshing. This is the training you didn’t get anywhere else.

Essential learning for working with sexual exploitation, trafficking, and complex sexual trauma

Wake Up and Think! Grab Your Cup and Log On

Four jam-packed hours over two sessions - 9:00 -11:00 am

These webinars will help participants with understanding the unique complexities of sexually exploitative trauma Sexual exploitation and trafficking involve coercive control, repeated violations, bodily intrusion, survival adaptation, and system-level harm — and they require a fundamentally different way of thinking.

In each two-week component, we challenge mainstream assumptions, dismantle stigma, and radically shift how participants understand behaviours, bodies, brains and responses. This is about moving from fear and discomfort to clarity, confidence, and grounded empathy — and learning how to create therapeutic and support plans that actually work.

You’ll leave thinking differently, responding differently, and feeling more equipped.

April 14 & 28, 2026 — Let’s Dive Right Into the Body -
Masturbation, Bowel & Reproductive Health, Childbirth,
and Breastfeeding

This is the module most people didn’t know they needed. One many professionals quietly dread exploring.

Sexual exploitation and trafficking leave deep imprints on the body, yet bodily topics are often avoided, minimized, or mishandled in care settings. Masturbation, bowel issues, reproductive health, pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding are frequently sites of shame, confusion, re-
traumatization, or silence.

In this component, we talk plainly about how the body carries trauma, how survivors experience these functions differently, and how professionals can respond without panic, judgment, or avoidance. This is not about sensationalism — it’s about competence, safety, and
dignity.

Expect discomfort, relief, and a major expansion of your clinical and support lens.

May 12 & 26, 2026 — Head Injury, Dental and Oral
Trauma, Light, Sound, and Smell

Trafficking and sexual exploitation leave marks that are often missed — or misunderstood — by traditional trauma frameworks.

Head injuries, dental damage, oral trauma, chronic allergies, histamine responses, and heightened or altered sense of smell are all frequent and under-recognized in survivors. These issues are not random medical quirks; they are often directly connected to violence, neglect, stress physiology, and survival conditions.

This two-week component connects the dots between physical injury, sensory systems, immune response, and trauma behaviors — offering insight that can completely change how symptoms are interpreted and treated. Once you see these links, you can’t unsee them.

June 16 & 30, 2026 — Hyper-vigilance and Dissociation -
What Survival Really Looks Like

Hyper-vigilance and dissociation are often discussed — and just as often misunderstood.

In survivors of trafficking and sexual exploitation, these are not “symptoms” to eliminate, but highly intelligent survival strategies shaped by real danger, captivity, and coercive control.
This component explores how these states develop, how they coexist, how they show up in service settings, and why attempts to “calm,” “ground,” or “normalize” too quickly can backfire.

Participants learn how to recognize when vigilance is protective, when dissociation is functional, and how to work with — not against — the nervous system.

This is where compassion deepens and frustration starts to dissolve.

July 14 & 28, 2026 - Sexuality, the Body, and Survival
After Exploitation

Sex trafficking and sexual exploitation profoundly shape how survivors experience their bodies, sexuality, and sense of self. Hyper-sexualized behaviours, depersonalization, risk-taking, and confusion around consent and autonomy are not signs of “poor boundaries” or pathology—they
are often adaptive survival responses to repeated bodily violation and coercive control.

This webinar explores how sexuality, dissociation, risk, and body autonomy intersect after exploitation, and why traditional outdated frameworks often miss what survivors are communicating through their behaviour, exploring how sexuality and the body adapt under
coercive control.

Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how the body remembers trauma, how depersonalization functions as protection, and how to respond in ways that restore agency rather than reinforce shame or control.

This session is designed to help professionals move beyond fear, judgment, or avoidance and toward confident, grounded, and ethically sound responses that support safety, dignity, and self-directed healing.

August 11 & 25, 2026 — Crime and Substance - From
Criminalization to Context

Substance use and criminal involvement are often treated as separate issues from trauma — or as evidence of “poor choices.”

This module flips that narrative.

We explore how crime and substance use function as survival strategies, control mechanisms, coping tools, and sometimes coerced behaviours within trafficking contexts.

Participants will gain a deeper understanding of why traditional responses — punishment, pressure, compliance-based models — often re-traumatize survivors and entrench harm.

This component equips participants to respond with context, strategy, and humanity, examining holding boundaries and accountability in ways that do not replicate exploitation dynamics.

The Red Stool Promise
This series does not sanitize, soften, or oversimplify.
It speaks plainly, respectfully, and honestly, about what actually happens — and what actually helps.
If you work with sexually exploited, trafficked, or complex trauma survivors and feel:
• underprepared
• uneasy around certain topics
• frustrated by “standard” approaches
This series is designed for you.