Supporting Learning, Supporting Change, Supporting Ourselves and Each OtheR
Do you find it a challenge to work with some of your students? Are they struggling to learn and change in the presence or aftermath of violence, neglect, or other personal or intergenerational trauma? In this workshop, we will review the impact of violence and other traumatic events and explore a stance to support students to learn and change. In this workshop we will explore:
The value of bringing curiosity to the behaviours that can get in the way of learning;
The value of bringing curiosity to the behaviours that can get in the way of learning;
- The importance of developing rich connections that support the work you do, and the work that students/clients need to do to learn and change;
- Approaches to be proactive and acknowledge that violence is widespread and affects learning;
- Responses to disclosures, and the art being a “side-support;”
- The power of helping students and clients develop a conscious awareness of their own survival strategies, and building on this understanding to learn to settle, focus and ground themselves to support their own capacity to learn and change;
- The challenge to create conditions that provide a safer learning environment for all;
- How to take care of ourselves and be tender with the impacts of our own experience as we support others to learn and change in stressful conditions.
Workshop Facilitator:
Dr. Jenny Horsman is a community-based researcher and educator. For more than three decades her passionate focus has been understanding the impact of violence on learning and the ways educational interactions in any setting would change if we all acknowledged and addressed these impacts creatively, and in ways that recognize the problem is not in individual students or clients, but in the systems that make it harder to learn and change. Her work is underpinned by mindfulness meditation practices and an extensive study of the latest neuroscience. She has written and published widely, and is an internationally recognized specialist in this area, a UNESCO panelist and juror, and speaker and trainer on four continents. Learn more at https://jennyhorsman.com & https://learningandviolence.net. Tell Jenny about the issues you hope she will address in this workshop, or the resources you need and hope will be added to the site at [email protected]. This workshop is for anyone who supports adults in literacy, basic or essential skills upgrading. Whether your role is a facilitator, instructor, counsellor, administrator, bring your experience, knowledge, questions, and curiosity to strengthen the support you can offer for learning and change. |
Program:
12:00 - 1:00 PM -- BYOB -- Bring your own bagged lunch and connect with other literacy folks 1:00 - 4:30 PM -- Workshop with Jenny After 4:30 PM -- Lingering, chatting, reflecting, ... |