Middletown, CT|Featured Event
Pause Within to Lead Without: Trauma-Informed Training for Teaching Artists
Teaching artists working with young people know the moment well: a student acts out, goofs off, or simply shuts down, and there's no clear playbook for what to do next. Teaching artists need practical, trauma-informed tools to understand and effectively respond to the wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges that show up in their classrooms — and PAUSE is that tool.
And the way to truly learn PAUSE, and to be able to share it with others, is to first gift it to yourself. This highly experiential, interactive, and creative workshop invites teaching artists to experience and practice PAUSE for themselves — discovering the pathways to their own self-leadership amidst the many stressful circumstances they juggle in their roles — before considering how to bring it to their work with young people. Rather than a lecture on trauma-informed practice, this is an embodied, dynamic session — participants will move, reflect, share, role-play, and imagine together as they learn, practice, and embody a trauma-informed process. Experience how to access and operate from your inner source of calm, compassion, and confidence while interacting and leading your students.
PAUSE is informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS), infusing best practices from the field of psychotherapy into a practical, everyday model for interactions, conflict resolution, and problem-solving. Rather than asking teaching artists to add one more separate protocol to their work, PAUSE offers a trauma-informed practice that can simply be infused into everything they're already doing.
This workshop is made possible thanks to a grant from The Fund for Greater Hartford and is co-sponsored by The Teaching Artist Hub CT. The training will be led by Joanna Curry-Sartori and Dr. Julie Faude of the Self Leadership Collaborative.
Saturday, October 24 from 1pm-5pm Cost: FREE with a Suggested Donation of $20. Program will be held in Middletown, CT. Application Required for Admission: forms.gle/nmKK6H1CMDzh4ifDA