Join us on Friday, November 15 at UFV Abbotsford or online for Trauma-Informed Teaching Practices. Sign up for all day, or either the 9:30 am or 1:00 pm sessions.
Session 1 — When a community weeps: A workshop for educators and students supporting trauma recovery through social change
In this workshop, running from 9:30 am to noon in room D225, Theresa Southam will lead us through The Framework for Community Recovery and Restoration introduced in her new book Transforming Trauma through Social Change – A Guide for Educators.
This is available for UFV instructors and students, who 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:
- Make a learning space brave and more inclusive.
- Reflect on the conditions of a community before it faces a traumatic event.
- Discuss why certain leaders and interventions emerge during traumatic events.
- 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
In this session running from 1 to 2:30 pm in room A225 (and online via Zoom), 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.
This session is for UFV instructors and students, and free for BC post-secondary instructors.
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Please email TLCevents@ufv.ca to register and indicate if you will join in-person for the entire day, the morning only, or the afternoon only.
If you intend to join in the afternoon via Zoom, please register here.
For more information, contact Michelle Andrus at michelle.andrus@ufv.ca.
11/14/2024