Navigating Trauma: Brain/Body Pathways to Foster Emotionally Regulated and Resilient Students

This webinar was held at November 6, 2024. The live recording is below. A copy of the slides used in the presentation is available by clicking on the button below this text box.

This training demonstrates the difference in brain functioning between traumatized and non-traumatized individuals when a trigger causes the perception of threat (whether real or not). It focuses on a two pathway Road Resilience Model that includes the "Eight Essentials" that foster secure relationships that help students feel safe and daily practices that foster interoceptive intelligence to increase emotional regulation, focus, and empathy.

Maggie Kline has been a marriage, family and child therapist for nearly 40 years and is a retired school psychologist. Originally trained in Satir’s Family Systems, Gestalt, and Humanistic Psychology, she specializes in trauma recovery through the lens of Somatic Experiencing and embodied mindfulness. Maggie integrates S.E. concepts with art, dream work, movement, and attachment play when working with children and teens. She is a senior Somatic Experiencing instructor for SEI www.traumahealing.org, teaching internationally, and creator of Conscious Connections PlayShops. Maggie co-authored Trauma through a Child's Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing (2007) and Trauma Proofing Your Kids: A Parents’ Guide to Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience (2008) with Dr. Peter A. Levine. Her latest book, Brain-Changing Strategies to Trauma-Proof Our Schools: A Heart-Centered Movement for Wiring Well-Being (2020) is intended to inspire an evolutionary shift to relieve trauma and stress in communities and cultivate a culture of kindness.