Change is in us and around us all the time. Our Jewish tradition gives us enormous tools with which we navigate transition, unpredictability, grief and unsteadiness. How might we tap into the anchors of our lineage to strengthen ourselves, each other, and the youth we serve toward more communal wellness and resiliency? How might we reimagine our stories of shift so that they are anchors versus armor?
Trauma-informed and Equity Centered
How do we navigate conflict in moments of uncertainty? How might we lead ourselves and our teens through trauma-informed and healing-centered ways that are anchored in humanizing the real stuff (fear, anxiety, moral injury, excitement, possibility) that arises with change? This program will focus on tangible steps to help the youth and teens we work with navigate unsteadiness and unpredictability and to move through it all, together.
- Aimed at: Educators and clergy who work with Jewish adolescents.
- Structure: One-time, in-person training.
- Facilitated by: Leora Wolf-Prusan, EdD.
Program Details
- Date: Thursday, November 21, 2024
- Time: 11:00 am – 1:30 pm
- Location: JFCS Marin County (600 Fifth Ave, San Rafael, CA, 94901)
Learning Arc
In this workshop, we will first engage in study, reflective exercises and open discussion to explore our personal and professional relationships with change, unsteadiness, and unpredictability as a means to strengthen our work.
Following a break for lunch, we will build upon the foundational insights gained in the morning session by applying our internal experiences and relationships to our external ways of being as educators.
“What if we viewed school change as an opportunity to practice the equity-centered trauma-informed values, skills, and ways of being we are working toward? Rather simply a means to an end, the process of school change presents us with a chance to address trauma, to heal, and to build relationships”
-Alex Shevrin Venet
Registration
Cost: $36 per person
Organizations that are members of the Bay Area Jewish Youth Resilience Roundtable receive one comped registration. If you are a member, please email Alisha Pedowitz at alisha@jewishlearning.works to register.
All trainings at Jewish LearningWorks are subsidized by our generous donors. If the cost is a barrier to your participation, do not hesitate to contact us to arrange an adjustment.
Registration is open until November 14, 2024 or until the event is full.
Questions
Please contact Alisha Pedowitz, Senior Educator, at alisha@jewishlearning.works for any questions or more information.
About Our Facilitator
Leora Wolf-Prusan (she/her) serves as the Project Director for the School Crisis Recovery & Renewal project and as the School Mental Health field director for the Pacific Southwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC), in addition to many other facilitation projects. Previous roles include a national field director of a SAMHSA initiative (ReCAST) and technical assistance for the Student Mental Health Program for California’s Community Colleges, CalWORKs, and more. With years of training and facilitating learning and community building in schools p-16, Wolf-Prusan is skilled in facilitation, human learning design, training, and coaching. Wolf-Prusan is dedicated to work focused on educator mental health, wellness, and trauma-informed approaches to education and operates through a framework in which public health, social work, and education intersect. Her research examined the impact of student death on teachers, what factors contribute to teachers building resiliency, and what supports teachers need from the school system in the event of a student homicide or other traumas. She received a BA in international relations and a BA in Spanish with a minor in Social & Ethnic Relations from the University of California, Davis; a teaching credential from Mills College; and an EdD in educational leadership from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Her work in school crisis recovery and renewal is motivated by and dedicated to educators and youth who envision schools as a platform for community and connection.
