Psychological Wellbeing: Generational Trauma, Trauma Dumping & Emotional Healing – The Islamic College
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
