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What is Trauma? What is a Trauma-Informed Approach?
“What’s wrong with you?” When one of my students is habitually distracted,…
Read MoreGender-Based Violence and Muslim Communities: Trauma Processing through Art
In my upper-level “Gender and Sexuality in Islam” course, we begin the…
Read MoreAddressing Race in the Classroom: A Trauma-Informed Communal Embodied Practice
In the classroom, topics of race/racism frequently arise, particularly in light of…
Read MoreWe Have to Tell the Truth: A Liberative Approach to Trauma-Informed Pedagogy
Starts and Fits Black skin taught me a lot about education, mainly…
Read MorePassing by/through/in Written Word
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a traumatic time for all of us…
Read MoreGetting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable: Reflections on Running and Teaching
I have been running long distance for almost three decades. I am…
Read MoreTrauma-Informed Pedagogy of Courage, Connection, and Celebration: Using the Narrative Exercise of the “Tree of Life”
In this article, I focus on the narrative exercise of the “tree…
Read MoreFostering Collaboration and Agency in an Antiracist, Trauma-Informed Classroom: Creating Community-Learning Agreements through Reflective Practice
I began my current position as the associate director for teaching, learning,…
Read MoreBreathing | Being | Praying Meditations: The Generative Possibilities of the Arts
As I write this piece, most of us have spent 2020 attempting…
Read MoreCritical Reflection Ensuing from Traumatic Events and Ideology Critique
I have been teaching theology for around ten years now—first in a…
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