Trauma-Informed Leadership, Risk Mitigation & Institutional Care

Myrna works with organizations, leaders, and institutions who understand that mishandling harm, conflict, and trauma carries real consequences—human, legal, reputational, and financial. Her role is to help you prevent damage before it becomes irreversible.

This work is for you if:

- You hold responsibility for people, decisions, or systems
- You are navigating conflict, complaints, harm, or high-stakes accountability
- You understand that trauma—ignored or mishandled,
destabilizes institutions
- You need guidance that is clear, credible, and grounded in lived reality,
not theory

What Myrna Actually Does

Myrna helps organizations stabilize, protect, and rebuild trust when:
- Harm has occurred
- Systems are under strain
- Leadership credibility is at risk
- People are burned out, fearful, or disengaged
- There is pressure to “move on” without real repair

If the cost of getting it wrong is too high, you are in the right place.
This work sits at the intersection of trauma, justice, leadership, and institutional responsibility.

  • Myrna works directly with leaders, regulatory bodies, law societies, law enforcement, boards, legal professionals, and senior teams to:

    • Assess risk related to trauma, conflict, and organizational harm

    • Identify where systems are unintentionally causing damage

    • Provide clear, grounded guidance for high-stakes decision-making

    • Support leaders through moments where silence, delay, or missteps can escalate harm

  • Myrna designs and delivers trauma-responsive training that is:

    • Practical, not performative

    • Grounded in real cases and consequences

    • Designed to change behaviour—not just language

    Training topics include:

    • Trauma-responsive leadership and governance

    • Handling complaints, disclosures, and conflict responsibly

    • Vicarious trauma, burnout, and moral injury

    • Duty of care and institutional accountability

    • Recognizing and responding to racial trauma, intergenerational trauma & organizational trauma

    • What happens when harm is mishandled—and how to prevent it

  • Myrna convenes leaders, practitioners, and decision-makers who need to build real-world skill in addressing harm, conflict, and trauma—not outsource it, avoid it, or mishandle it. These events are designed to strengthen participants’ ability to:

    • Respond to harm with emotional intelligence and humanity, even under pressure

    • Navigate difficult conversations without escalating conflict or retraumatizing others

    • Hold accountability while preserving dignity

    • Make decisions that are both ethically grounded and operationally sound

    • Intervene early—before issues harden into crises

    This is not passive learning. Participants leave with language, judgment, and practical capacity they can apply immediately inside their own roles and institutions. These are not feel-good events. They are skill-building spaces for people who cannot afford to get this wrong.

  • Myrna works with lawyers, legal teams, and law or justice-adjacent professionals who are immersed in files involving trauma, abuse, and profound human suffering.

    This includes:

    • Consulting with lawyers handling high-impact litigation where exposure to traumatic material is ongoing

    • Supporting legal professionals navigating the emotional and ethical weight of abuse, violence, and systemic harm

    • Helping practitioners maintain clarity, judgment, and humanity without becoming overwhelmed, detached, or impaired by the work

    • Offering a culturally responsive & trauma-informed perspective that supports sound legal strategy without sacrificing human dignity

    This work recognizes a reality the legal profession often minimizes: prolonged exposure to trauma changes how people think, decide, and carry responsibility.

    Myrna’s role is to help legal professionals remain steady, ethical, engaged, and aware while doing this work.

In addition to our customized programs - listed below - for leaders, lawyers and Indigenous community members, Myrna offers several additional services.

How This Work Is Different?
Myrna brings:

  • Lived experience alongside professional expertise

  • An understanding of trauma inside systems, not just individuals

  • The ability to name what others avoid, calmly, clearly, and without spectacle

Clients work with Myrna because they need someone who can hold complexity without collapsing.

Why This Matters? When trauma is ignored:

  • People disengage or leave and complaints escalate

  • Trust erodes

  • Legal and reputational risk increases

When trauma is mishandled:

  • Harm multiplies

  • Leaders lose credibility and institutions destabilize

This work exists to prevent that.

Engagements

Retainers & Advisory Relationships

Project-based Consultations

Custom Trainings & Keynotes

Conferences & Multi-day Gatherings

Our Programs

These powerful courses are designed and led by Myrna McCallum, a leader in trauma-informed justice and healing. Participants consistently praise the compassionate, insightful teachings and the transformative impact of these courses on their personal and professional lives. With deep roots in Indigenous knowledge and trauma-informed practices, Myrna's courses are celebrated for creating safe, inspiring spaces where meaningful healing and growth happen. Supported by her skilled team, these offerings are a must for anyone seeking to bring trauma-awareness, cultural humility, and resilience into their work and communities.

  • LoveBack: Navigating Trauma in the Workplace

    LoveBack is a transformative three-day healing and leadership retreat for Indigenous professionals navigating colonial harm and the impacts of intergenerational, racial, and cultural trauma, as revealed in their workplaces.

    Through circle time, storytelling, ceremony, and restorative spa or physical somatic experiences, participants explore how trauma and systemic harm show up in their bodies, minds, and behaviours, while reconnecting with their authentic selves.

    LoveBack provides a supportive space to restore what has been taken, strengthen what remains, and reclaim the inner safety, clarity, and courage needed to lead, create, and show up with confidence, purpose, and resilience.

    Myrna also offers a customized version of this program for Indigenous leadership and Indigenous communities.

  • Indigenous Liberation and Racial Justice

    The Indigenous Liberation and Racial Justice Program is an immersive, transformative experience for Indigenous professionals, people of colour, and allies ready to confront colonial harm and advance real justice. Grounded in Indigenous worldviews, the program helps participants understand how racism and colonial systems operate, recognize their own roles in these dynamics, and develop the skills to drive liberation, accountability, and systemic change.

    Indigenous liberation is the restoration of Indigenous peoples’ rights, self-determination, and authority over their lands, laws, and futures. Racial justice is the dismantling of systems and practices that perpetuate inequality, and the creation of equitable structures where all communities can thrive. This program is a space for honest reflection, courageous learning, and collective action—a place to connect, grow, and take bold steps toward a world where Indigenous rights, dignity, and sovereignty are fully realized, and racial equity is a lived reality.

  • Transform Your Practice Retreat

    Transform Your Practice is a three-day trauma‑informed retreat designed for leaders, educators, and professionals navigating high-pressure, emotionally demanding roles.

    Through immersive workshops, reflective exercises, and embodied practices participants explore how trauma shapes their thinking, relationships, and leadership. You’ll leave with practical tools to strengthen emotional intelligence, build resilience, communicate with compassion, and set healthy boundaries, all while reconnecting with your purpose and clarity.

    This retreat is for those ready to step off the treadmill, reset, and transform the way they lead, teach, and work—with greater focus, presence, and care for themselves and those they serve.

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