As educators navigating today's many challenges, we recognize and honour your inherent resilience and courage. We aim to help amplify these qualities by equipping you with research-backed trauma informed mindfulness and somatic (body based) tools and practices to support resilience in yourself and your students.

In this session, learn about the connection between trauma and the body, gaining insights into how these experiences can manifest in students’ behaviour (as communication), particularly in emotional dis-regulation and nervous system responses. “The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways”. Embracing this concept is pivotal for creating safe, nurturing environments conducive to learning and healing.

Fortunately, there are research-backed practices that can develop our inner resources for greater resilience and facilitate the release of trapped stress and trauma in the body. Many of these practices incorporate nature-inspired mindfulness fostering centeredness (through grounding techniques), presence, self-regulation, and resilience in both educators and students.

Being an experiential workshop, you’ll be invited to try mindful somatic based practices aimed at regulating the nervous system and cultivating wellbeing through harnessing the power of the breath, movement, senses, sound, and brief restorative/ relaxation techniques. These practices offer daily opportunities for (re) centering (amidst the storm), alleviating overwhelm or anxiety, and nurturing a culture of care within educational settings. You’ll also come away with top-line strategies for compassionately attending to traumatic wounds (whether within yourselves or your students), and/ or helping students through emotional challenges in the face of triggered trauma.

Leave feeling empowered with a handout to facilitate the sharing of these trauma informed practices with your students and colleagues, fostering greater resilience and holistic wellbeing.