In order to move forward, it’s crucial to reflect on where we’ve been. The last 17 months have been challenging, eye-opening, scary, frustrating, stressful, surprising - the list of adjectives is endless! How do we go forward in a way that builds on our strengths while acknowledging the overwhelming stress we’ve experienced?

During this session, you will move through a reflective journey over the past 17 months using metaphoric tools that you can bring back and use with your students and your staff. Let’s use the last 17 months as a learning opportunity for ourselves and our community. These ready-to-use digital resources will help you talk about well-being, trauma and racism with students of all ages, as well as your colleagues. Pretending that our worlds were not turned upside down is ignoring what we know about trauma. If we don’t deal with what we’ve all been through, it will creep…