ABSTRACT
Trauma survivors have often suffered due to systems of oppression, people in power abusing their authority, betrayal in relationships, or harm caused by those closest to them. This underscores the importance of trustworthiness and transparency as trauma-informed principles in group therapy, psychodrama, and leadership. Providers and facilitators embodying these qualities offer participants corrective emotional experiences and the potential to trust again. This principle also applies to the facilitator approaching the client and community with a sense of trust. Treating clients as experts in their own experience while placing trust and faith in them effectively promotes empowerment, safety, and healing. Additionally, the clinician needs to be able to trust themself and to be transparent with themself, even when uncomfortable. Trustworthiness and transparency are of particular importance to organizational leaders, supervisors, and trainers as they reflect ethical principles for best practice. Both principles are significant in the psychodrama process, and at the same time, psychodrama can assist clients in redeveloping trust for others, themselves, their body, and their intuition.
