Abuse, Trauma and Behaviour Education
Equipping individuals, professionals, organisations and communities to recognise abuse, respond to trauma, identify harmful behaviours and create safer outcomes.
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Providing CPD-Accredited:
Trauma-informed Abuse Education. Course Facilitation Training. Tailored Workshops for:
Individuals. Practitioners. Professionals
Practitioner Training
Created to empower professionals and community leads to effectively facilitate ‘The Dynamics of Abuse’ and ‘Breaking Past Patterns’ courses. This training provides accredited materials and expert guidance, offering refined tools and tailored resources for successful delivery within your local environment.
Choose the learning pathway that best suits your needs, whether you are seeking personal development through online learning, practitioner accreditation to support online learning or facilitate our live courses or organisational learning to equip you further!
Why choose our approach?
Built from Lived Experience
Developed from personal experience and transformed into practical education that supports understanding, awareness, and change.
Shaped By Real People
Programmes have been refined through years of delivery, participant feedback, evaluation, and lived experience insights.
Practiced Based Evidence
Grounded in frontline community work with individuals, organisations, and professionals across a range of settings.
Inclusive & Non-gendered
We examine abuse dynamics across all identities and settings. Our approach fosters recovery through intentional, actionable changes in behavior.
Focused On Change
Designed not only to raise awareness, but to support reflection, accountability, safer responses, and meaningful outcomes.
About Irene Education
Lynn Harris - Founder and Company Director
My work began long before Irene Education was founded.
Like many people affected by abuse and trauma, I spent years searching for answers, understanding, and a way forward.
Along that journey, I discovered that much of what individuals needed to recognise, understand, and respond to abuse simply wasn't being discussed in a way that felt accessible, practical, or relatable.
Since 2011, I have worked across community, professional, and organisational settings, supporting men, women, and young people affected by abuse, trauma, addiction, homelessness, exploitation, care experience, offending behaviour, and other forms of vulnerability.
Through years of delivery, listening, evaluation, and piloting programmes, one thing became clear: people needed education that helped them make sense of what they had experienced, recognise harmful patterns, understand behaviour, and create safer outcomes for themselves and others.
Everything I teach today has been shaped not only by lived experience, but by the voices of the thousands of individuals who trusted me with their stories and helped show what meaningful abuse education should look like.
Irene Education was founded in memory of our mother, Irene Harris, who lost her life to domestic homicide in 1983. Her story remains at the heart of this work and continues to inspire a commitment to education that informs, empowers, and creates lasting change.
Today, that work continues through online learning, specialist workshops, facilitator development, and professional training designed to help others recognise abuse, respond to trauma, identify harmful behaviours, and create safer outcomes.
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Tell us what your organisation or service needs. We will contact you to discuss the most suitable programme, training or workshop option and provide a quotation.