Change the Story: Learn what you (and your program) can do to shift the impact of violence, neglect and other traumatic experiences

Pat Halewich (Community Learning Network)

Location: Star of the North - 3A St. Vital Ave., St. Albert, AB T8N 1K1

Region(s): North, West Central, East Central, Central, South

Registration for this event is now closed, as the class is full. If you would like to add your name to the waitlist, please contact Pat Halewich at events@calp.ca.

Change the Story: Learn what you (and your program) can do to shift the impact of violence, neglect and other traumatic experiences

Do you find it a challenge to work with some of your students? Are they struggling to learn and change in the presence or aftermath of violence or neglect, personal or intergenerational trauma? In this workshop, we will review the impact of such experience, and explore a stance we can take in education settings to better support student success.

We will explore:

• The value of bringing curiosity to the behaviours that can get in the way of learning;
• The importance of developing rich connections that support he work you do, and the work that students/clients need to do to learn and change
• Approaches to be proactive and acknowledge that violence is widespread and affects learning;
• Responses to disclosures, and the art of being a "side-support";
• The power of helping students and clients develop a conscious awareness of their own survival strategies, and building on this understanding to learn to settle, focus and ground themselves to support their own capacity to learn and change;
• The challenge to create conditions that provide a safer learning environment for all;
• Possibilities for counteracting the teachings of violence - whether an abusive home, cultural genocide, war, or any other violent or traumatic experience;
• How to take care of ourselves and be tender with the impacts of our own experience as we support others to learn and change in stressful conditions.

Trainer:

Dr. Jenny Horsman is a community-based researcher and educator. For more than three decades her passionate focus has been understanding the impact of violence on learning and the ways educational interactions in any setting would change if we all acknowledged and addressed these impacts creatively, and in ways that recognize the problem is not in individual students or clients, but in the systems that make it harder to learn and change.

Her work is underpinned by mindfulness meditation practices and an extensive study of the latest neuroscience. She has written and published widely, and is an internationally recognized specialist in this area, a UNESCO panelist and juror, and speaker and trainer on four continents. She is always looking for new allies to co-create https://learningandviolence.net so that it can become a well-used resource and training hub, and a catalyst for educational change in Canada and Internationally.

Learn more at https://jennyhorsman.com & https://learningandviolence.net 

Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Registration Fee: $25.00 / person for CALP staff, First Nations College staff or CCC (Comprehensive Community College) staff

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 (A minimum of 8 people is required to run this training.)

Pre-registration is required; space will not be reserved without payment. To register, please submit payment online by credit card and then complete the registration form.

Important Notes:

• When you register, you will be asked to answer three questions about your expectations for this workshop, which will help Dr. Horsman make this learning opportunity relevant to you.
• You will receive 2 confirmation emails when you have completed your registration: a receipt for your payment, and a separate confirmation of your registration form submission.

For more information, please contact:

Corrie Rhyasen Erdman
Training Manager, Community Learning Network
training@calp.ca
(780) 968-2868
 
Cancellation and Refund Guideline/Procedure:

If you are unable to attend a training event, you must notify Community Learning Network via email of all cancellations prior to the first day of the training. Non-attendance does not constitute notice of withdrawal.

If Notice of Cancellation is given 10 or more business days before the training event, the registration fee is eligible for a refund, less a $25.00 administrative fee.

If Notice of Cancellation is given fewer than 10 business days before the first day of the training event, the registration fee is nonrefundable.