Understanding the Brain to Transform Learning
Trauma-Aware Education Foundation & Master Classes
These sessions are designed to enhance your understanding of the impact of trauma helps educators move from managing behaviour to supporting regulation, connection, and learning. More details on our related sessions can be viewed below.
Spaces are limited. Early booking is recommended.
Twilight Sessions
Our Twilight Sessions are open to anyone supporting young people with complex trauma, behavioural, or regulation challenges, including colleagues across police, health, and social work sectors.
They are ideal for educators and support staff looking to refresh their knowledge, as well as those new to trauma-informed education.
CHRISTCHURCH | Monday 22 June
🕓 4:00pm - 6:00pm
📍Arahina, Kingslea School, 19 Pavitt Street, Richmond, Christchurch 8013
Why do children and young people who have experienced complex trauma behave in the ways they do in education settings?
What can educators do to support these learners to access their education in more adaptive ways?
NELSON | Wednesday 24 June AND Thursday 25 June
🕓 4:00pm - 6:00pm
📍TBC
Perceiving safety
Engaging in relationships
Emotional self-regulation
Accessing learning
These insights help educators understand behaviour and guide effective trauma-aware responses that support learning and life outcomes.
Masterclass 1 - Deep Dive into Trauma-Aware Education
This Masterclass is designed for educators and professionals who already have a general understanding of complex trauma, relational neuroscience, and trauma-aware responses and would like to extend their knowledge and practice.
CHRISTCHURCH | Monday 22 June
🕓 9:30am – 1:00pm
📍Arahina, Kingslea School, 19 Pavitt Street, Richmond, Christchurch 8013
Join Professor Judith Howard for a deep dive into the neuroscience that explains the challenges trauma-impacted children may experience in education settings
NELSON | Wednesday 24 June
🕓 9:30am – 1:00pm
📍RTLB, 67 Salisbury Road, Richmond, Nelson, 7020
Perceiving safety
Engaging in relationships
Emotional self-regulation
Accessing learning
These insights help educators understand behaviour and guide effective trauma-aware responses that support learning and life outcomes.
Masterclass 2 - Educator Wellbeing in Trauma-Aware Education
This is a rare opportunity to learn directly from one of Australasia’s leading voices in trauma-aware education and to explore practical ways of supporting educator wellbeing within your own school or education setting.
For educators working in complex environments, this is a professional learning opportunity not to be missed!
NELSON | Thursday 25 June
🕓 9:30am – 1:00pm
📍RTLB, 67 Salisbury Road, Richmond, Nelson, 7020
Join Professor Judith Howard to explore the potential wellbeing impacts for educators who work with trauma-impacted children and young people.
A key focus of trauma-aware education is upholding and strengthening the wellbeing of educators and support personnel. A regulated adult nervous system helps regulate a dysregulated student’s nervous system.
About Professor Judith Howard
Professor Judith Howard is based in the School of Education at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and is a leading researcher and educator in the field of Trauma-Aware Education.
Her neuroscience-informed approach focuses on supporting young learners with lived experience of complex childhood trauma, something she believes every educator should have access to.
Judith oversees both pre-service and post-graduate teacher education and has authored books Trauma-Aware Education: Essential information for educators, education sites and education systems and Distressed or Deliberately Defiant, and other numerous publications on trauma-aware education. She has also developed online professional learning courses reaching thousands of educators nationally and internationally.
Professor Howard led the development of the National Guidelines for Trauma-Aware Education in Australia and is the founder of the biennial Trauma Aware Conference Australia.
These sessions are being offered at a highly subsidised cost to ensure accessibility for educators. Twilight sessions and Masterclasses are available. Spaces are limited.