Trauma Informed Classroom Working Group

So often the love we have for the young people we work with, isn't enough to support them in navigating the nervous system disregulation that they deal with. Not only can this be isolating for the student but educators are often left feeling powerless, flawed and alone in supporting their students. Until now. This course is designed for folks who work in schools with young people ages 5- 18 years old. The time spent together will give educators an opportunity to get help real world, applicable tools for working with their most  trauma impacted students. 

Registration will open at the beginning of August. If you would like to be sent an email  when registration opens with information about this class. Please fill out the form linked here. 

April considers herself a compassionate disrupter of inequity and restorative reconnector to people’s strengths. Prior to being a mindfulness and educational consultant, April was teacher at a resilient middle school in the South Bronx. April was part of the inaugural

cohort at the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Columbia University where she received her Master’s Degree in Spirituality and Mindfulness in 2016, MS education at Fordham University, and BS International Relations, Community Development and Educational Studies with a focus on Anti-Racist education from Mount Holyoke College. She then

created Ahimsa MY LLC, focusing on bringing mindfulness and yoga to schools and educational organizations as a means to cultivate present teachers and self-empowered students. April hopes that the practices of mindfulness can reconnect teachers and young people back to their inner resources of breath and body to navigate external uncertainties. 

She is a teacher with the Lineage Project, an organization that

teaches trauma-informed mindfulness to incarcerated adjacent young people and staff who support them. She also was a program facilitator with Mindful Schools, an international mindfulness organization supporting in integrating mindfulness into school communities. April has been working with restorative justice, trauma informed practices, diversity and equity, and mindfulness for over ten years. April’s greatest joy is being a foster mother.

Devon is a queer woman who cares deeply about the power of mindfulness practice to as a tool to heal and liberate. She has practiced meditation since 1997 and has been formally teaching mindfulness since 2010. She worked in San Francisco Public Schools for 10 years as a Social Worker, supporting young people who were dealing with trauma and helping teachers and staff create trauma informed spaces to better serve the young people they interacted with.  Devon is a trauma survivor and through her professional education and personal healing journey she specializes in offering trauma informed mindfulness.