This one-hour webinar will give you a brief overview of what it means to experience trauma and how it manifests. We will discuss ways to help your staff and your physical spaces be more trauma-sensitive, including topics such as sensory issues and architecture, self-defense, mindfulness, self-care, non-violent intervention, and mental health first aid training.

We will practice looking at a space with our trauma glasses on. We'll also explore different populations that may be living with trauma and how to make programs accessible for everyone.

Using mindfulness techniques, we will also ask ourselves some tough questions about our own coping skills and what trauma we may be bringing to the workplace and how to greet ourselves and others with kindness and compassion.

Jenn Carson ~ Biography

Jenn Carson is an internationally recognized expert in physical literacy, an award-winning author, a yoga teacher, a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and boxing coach, and the director of the L.P. Fisher Public Library in Woodstock, New Brunswick. She is a visionary leader who was deemed by Amplify East as a remarkable woman making a difference in Atlantic Canada. In 2019, she was named a Mover & Shaker by Library Journal and hailed as The Lethal Librarian in a feature profile in [Edit] Magazine for her radical leadership and library advocacy.

This training is made available to Kansas library staff through the State Library of Kansas' subscription to PCI Webinars.