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Trauma Informed Teaching Practices

Date(s): Friday, November 15 9:30 am - 2:30 pm
Location: Abbotsford Campus

Join us on Friday, November 15th for Trauma Informed Teaching Practices. Sign up for all day, or either the 9:30 am or 1:00 pm sessions.

Agenda:

  • Session 1: When a Community Weeps: A Workshop for Educators and Student Supporting Trauma Recovery through Social Change
    • Time: 9:30 am – 12:00 pm
    • Location: Abbotsford campus, Room D225
    • For UFV instructors and students
  • Lunch: Free to workshop participants.
    • Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
    • Location: Abbotsford campus, Room A225
  • Session 2: Launching a Provincial Network for Educators Using Trauma-informed Teaching Practices
    • Time: 1:00 – 2:30 pm
      • Location: Abbotsford campus, Room A225 + online via Zoom
      • FREE for BC post-secondary instructors

 

Session 1) When a Community Weeps: A Workshop for Educators and Student Supporting Trauma Recovery through Social Change

In this workshop, we will apply The Framework for Community Recovery and Restoration introduced in Theresa’s book Transforming Trauma through Social Change – A Guide for Educators. Participants will consider a traumatic event from a community they are associated with and how they might integrate the framework and activities into a course or workshop.

After the workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Make a learning space brave and more inclusive.
  2. Reflect on the conditions of a community before it faces a traumatic event.
  3. Discuss why certain leaders and interventions emerge during traumatic events.
  4. Envision rituals and memorials that enhance the health of a community, e.g. Stqeeye’ Society, labyrinth walking, a Children’s Forest.

 

Session 2) Launching a Provincial Network for Educators Using Trauma-informed Teaching Practices

UFV faculty Amea Wilbur and Brianna Strumm (Adult Education & Social Work) will launch a community of practice for educators interested in trauma-informed practice and pedagogy. This initial meeting will be to establish interested membership, as well as set goals for the network.

The launch of this network with include a reading from Theresa Southam’s new book. In this reading, Theresa will walk through the arc of her book Transforming Trauma through Social Change – A Guide for Educators. Travelling the arc of trauma recovery, we’ll learn that social change is the glue that holds trauma recovery together, leading to positive social change. The five phases of transformative learning, life crises, disorienting dilemmas, critical reflection, dialogue, and taking action, can be brought to life in a course by involving students in social movements. Developed by Mezirow (1978) and applied in hundreds of educational settings, this learning process can transform traumatic histories into resilience and hope.

Transforming Trauma Through Social Change Book cover image. Headshot of Theresa Southam in a field of tall grass

Please email TLCevents@ufv.ca to register; please indicate if you will join in-person for the entire day, the morning only, or the afternoon only.

If you intend to join the afternoon via Zoom, please Register Here.

Event Location : Abbotsford Campus

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Trauma Informed Teaching Practices
Date(s): Friday, November 15
Time: 9:30 am - 2:30 pm
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