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Trauma & Resilience in Higher Education: Naming the Urgency, Envisioning Change, Sharing Tools – Watch Party
April 26, 2023 @ 7:30 am - 3:30 pm
Join the Center for Academic Innovation for a Trauma & Resilience in Higher Education Conference Watch Party
Date, Time & Location: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 ∙ 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM ∙ PMC-216D – Come and go as your schedule allows.
Virtual Conference Description: This one-day virtual live conference explores how every encounter area—from pedagogy to campus safety, advising to financial aid, facilities to college policies and administration— can be informed by recognizing the prevalence of trauma, adversity, and toxic stress and how these impact academic outcomes.
Trauma-informed education describes a perspective or lens through which practices and services are evaluated in view of lived experience, basic neurobiology, as well as research and findings on the power of resilience behaviors and interventions to build progressive, positive outcomes.
For additional information about this virtual conference, please see the Institute for Trauma, Adversity, & Resilience in Higher Education website.
Featured Sessions:
- Keynote with Bessel A. Van Der Kolk, M.D.
- Developing a Common Language: Context, History, and Fundamental Principles of Trauma-informed Pedagogies
- The Neurobiology of Trauma and Resilience and Why That (Should) Matters to Higher Education
- Trauma-Aware Online Teaching
- Developmental Trauma and Learning from the Body
- Navigating the Shadow Space: College Student Experiences of Campus Spaces & (Un)Safety After Trauma
- Trauma-Informed and Resilience-based Nursing Curriculum
- A Trauma-informed Approach to Working with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Higher Education
- Trauma-Informed Campus Safety and Policing
- Trauma-Informed Community College Pedagogies
- Challenging Neo-Liberal Conceptualizations of Self-Care in Higher Education
RSVP Instructions: Let us know if you are planning to attend by completing the watch party RSVP. Once your RSVP has been received, the Center for Academic Innovation will forward you a calendar invite.
Contact Information: If you have any questions about or need accommodations to attend this watch party, please contact the Center for Academic Innovation at facdev@otc.edu or 417-447-4800.
