Flourish: Building a Trauma Informed Classroom Community

Join Lauren Casey, Educational Consultant, CTLT Indigenous Initiatives and Samantha Nock, Educational Resources Developer, CTLT Indigenous Initiatives for an interactive conversation focused session on supporting, developing, and maintaining a safer classroom climate that upholds a dynamic and rigorous learning space while navigating complex classroom conflicts, discussions, and situations.

Some key areas that we may discuss include:

• The essentials of a trauma informed practice;
• Balancing the emotional load of facilitating complex learning spaces and creating respectful boundaries;
• Holding difficult conversations with care;
• Building in sustainable supports for students in learning design, and;
• Navigating systemic power structures in the classroom.

This session is designed to be participant directed and the topics and goals of the session may shift depending on the conversation that develops in the room.