Our online courses in trauma-informed social justice practices empower faculty and students to participate effectively in social change.

FOR FACULTY

EMBODYING YOUR CURRICULUM is a 6-week, 4-module online course designed to teach faculty how to create connection and contact within the online classroom as they are called upon to address the profound social problems we now face, which produce anxiety and overwhelm. Faculty will leave this course understanding how trauma impacts learning, how to regulate their own nervous systems to feel connected and energized online, and how to cultivate a learning environment where students feel seen and heard.

FOR STUDENTS

RESILIENCY AND INTELLIGENCE: LEARNING ONLINE AND REGULATING YOUR WAY TO SUCCESS is a 4-week, 4-module course that empowers students to recognize the patterns in their nervous systems that bring on stress. During this time in which many students lack adequate support, they will be given the strategies needed to regulate their nervous systems and relieve anxiety. Students will leave this course with life-long tools for engaging effectively online by gaining awareness about their learning styles, relational needs, and learning process. (For High School and College Students).

“As an academic worker, I often struggle to integrate my intellectual work with my embodied experience, and working with Anita has helped me do that with wonderful results in both my personal and professional life. I can’t recommend her highly enough.”

–A. Ford, Assistant Professor, Sociology

“This class connected me to my inner resilience (“Health”), which is a resource that will serve to liberate me for the rest of my life from the inherited traumas of our culture. As an educator, I view myself as serving the liberation of my students—and I can’t do that until I am free. I am so thankful for the work of Anita Chari and Angelica Singh to put together this empowering and transformative curriculum.”

–Linda Vanasupa, Professor of Materials Engineering, Olin College