This study assesses the effectiveness of the curriculum for an online professional development training designed to support people working in the helping professions gain greater self-awareness about how they respond to stress and trauma in the midst of emotionally charged interactions. The training utilizes an existential, developmental, and Adlerian model to help participants identify their unconscious, limiting beliefs about their upsetting emotions that may drive their reactive behavior. It also enables them to use this increased self-awareness to determine new ways they might respond with a more trauma-engaged way of being in the future. The training is designed using an emergent learning methodology that uses group dialogue and coaching designed to facilitate human emergence to support participants in achieving deeper self-reflection and self-exploration. The main objective is for participants to determine the specific ways the content is applicable to each participant's work and personal life. Training effectiveness is assessed using a mixed-method approach. Quantitative data using validated and custom-designed measures indicate the degree to which the differences in participants' mean scores on pre- and post-assessments were statistically significant. Qualitative data indicates the ways in which content delivery, group dialogue and reflection, emergence coaching, and the use of an existential developmental model supports participants in gaining greater self-awareness and how participants intend to shift their responses and ways of being in the midst of challenging, emotionally charged interactions with students and clients. This study also includes an ethnographic investigation into the mindset and perspectives of the Filipino people that comes from their unique cultural value orientation of the Filipino people and how these values may have facilitated or impeded the process of trauma-engagement. Consideration is given to how these cultural values could be translated into other cultural contexts in order to improve the training's effectiveness and facilitate trauma-engaged ways being for more people in the future. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]