for leaders
Healing-Centered Practices
Healing is needed: not only to rebuild trust, safety and connection, but also to nurture and sustain the community as a whole through trauma-informed practices and healing-centered engagement.
This participatory asynchronous course will support you as a leader to create an environment that fosters holistic well-being and creates mutual systems of support for you, your team and your participants.
This participatory asynchronous course will support you as a leader to create an environment that fosters holistic well-being and creates mutual systems of support for you, your team and your participants.
What's included here?
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Self-guided course
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Videos
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Discussion board community
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Handouts and links
Moving from Trauma to Healing
Recognizing the traumas that have arisen from the health pandemic as well as systemic racism, leaders will better understand trauma and trauma-informed practices that they can use to support themselves and staff.
Actionable Strategies
Walk away with strategies to create healing-centered spaces for yourself, for staff and for youth to heal.
You will get a healing framework with tools, practical skills and evidence-based strategies.
You will get a healing framework with tools, practical skills and evidence-based strategies.
Course contents
Meet the instructor
Marieke van Woerkom
Marieke van Woerkom has worked with young people and educators around the world for over two decades. She is passionate about building welcoming, student-centered, equitable spaces where staff and student dignity is honored. Her current work focuses on creating healing centered spaces.
Marieke has worked in the field of cultural exchange, conflict transformation, social justice, racial equity, and human rights. When working with schools, her focus is on creating more equitable and inclusive teaching and learning environments, using social and emotional learning, restorative practices, and racial literacy. Marieke holds a double Masters in Cultural Anthropology and International Relations from the University of Amsterdam, with a focus on social psychology and a specialization in group identity and intergroup relations.