Returning to Us
To help people who help people, the organization needs to be healthy and have practices in place that consider the trauma of those they serve. Lauren Spigelmyer and Jessica Doering have helped thousands of people who help people all over the world. Each week they'll explore tools, insights, and stories to help you lead and live with more clarity, calm, and connection. If you’re looking for support as you grow your organization’s capacity for caring for staff and the community, we would love to be part of that journey.
Returning to Us
Trauma 101
Healing takes place in the presence of positive, loving, and empathetic relationships - it only takes one positive relationship to form new neural pathways. Connectedness has the power to counterbalance adversity and that is something that we can foster in classrooms to promote focus and learning.
Understanding trauma and its causes is important for recognizing stressors in the classroom. In this episode Lauren explains the different types of childhood trauma and some of the life events that cause it.
Lauren answers this week’s listener question during the episode: How do we help students cope with stress without completely avoiding the stressful element?
Try-at-home tip: Digital Detox!
Favorite quotes:
"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."
-President Theodore Roosevelt
"But I believe trauma can also arise from quieter less obvious experiences such as humiliation or shaming or emotional abuse."
-Dr. Bruce Perry
“In a brain scan, relational pain—that caused by isolation during punishment—can look the same as physical abuse. Is alone in the corner the best place for your child?”
- Dan Siegel
References:
What Happened to You?
Other related resources from The Behavior Hub:
Blog Post:
Podcast:
- How Emotional States Impact Learning
- Mental Health Crisis in Education
- How to Get and Keep Students' Attention
- Questions and Answers from Listeners
Our Online Courses:
- Classroom Design with the Brain in Mind
- From Conflict to Calm: How to communicate with kids so they listen the FIRST time!
- 4 Simple Steps to Problem Solving
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