Psychological Wellbeing: Generational Trauma, Trauma Dumping & Emotional Healing

SESSION 1

Generational Trauma: The Emotional Inheritance That We Carry

Topics Include:

• What is generational trauma?
• How trauma is transmitted from generation to generation
• Family stories and emotionally inherited traits
• The collective trauma of Muslim communities
• The psychology of emotional inheritance
• Migration and cultural dislocation

Interactive Activity:

Family Trauma Mapping

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SESSION 2

How Trauma Moves Through Our Families

Topics Include:

• Attachment and trauma transmission
• Parenting influenced by trauma and its unprocessed effects
• Family structures and coping mechanisms
• Emotion suppression in the family unit
• Family systems operating through shame
• Intergenerational views of emotions

Interactive Activity:

Exploring inherited emotions and beliefs

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SESSION 3

Trauma Dumping: When Trauma Speaks Out Loud

Topics Include:

• What is trauma dumping?
• The difference between healthy expression of trauma and emotional flooding
• Why people with trauma histories share too much
• Emotional dysregulation and attachment wounds
• Trauma dumping in friendships and romantic relationships
• The effects on the listener

Interactive Activity:

Healthy Disclosure vs Trauma Dumping Role-play

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SESSION 4

Trauma Dumping in the Era of Social Media

Topics Include:

• Trauma culture and social media
• Oversharing on social media
• Validation-seeking and emotional reliance on others
• Trauma as identity on social platforms
• Digital boundaries
• Consequences of disclosing publicly

Interactive Activity:

Cases Studies of Social Media and Trauma Culture

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SESSION 5

Breaking The Cycle: Healing From Generational Trauma and Establishing Healthy Emotional Boundaries

Topics Include:

• Recognizing emotional inheritance
• Emerging with emotional regulation
• Having healthy ways of expressing emotions
• Boundaries and consent in our interactions
• Cultivating secure relationships
• The Islamic perspective on emotional health
• Building your healing legacy

Final Activity:

My Healing Legacy

Participants create their:

• The cycles they will break
• The trauma they will heal
• The legacy they will pass down

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KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of the programme participants will be able to:

✓          Know about generational trauma and the effects thereof

✓          Recognize their inherited trauma patterns

✓          Understand trauma dumping and its consequences

✓          Distinguish between healthy emotional expression and emotional flooding

✓          Gain healthier communication skills

✓          Build emotional boundaries

✓          Improve emotional regulation

✓          Create a healing and growth action plan for themselves