Pricing is structured to increase access for grassroots and peer-led spaces while sustaining this work within larger funded institutions
Reframing Trauma-Informed Practice in Complex Systems
Moving from charity → solidarity
With practical tools for non-carceral care
Trauma-informed practice is widely used across healthcare, housing, and social services but often in ways that focus on individual experiences while leaving broader systemic conditions unexamined.
This session invites a wider lens.
Together, we will explore how trauma is shaped not only by personal experience, but by the environments and systems people are navigating—including policy, institutional culture, and broader social conditions.
We will look at how common frameworks—such as nervous system regulation and the “window of tolerance” can be valuable, but incomplete when disconnected from context.
Participants will be invited to reflect on:
The relationship between systems, power, and trauma
How organizational structures can unintentionally reproduce harm
The tensions workers experience when trying to provide care within constrained environments
We will introduce critical concepts, including necropolitics and deficit-based narratives, and explore how these show up in everyday practice.
Importantly, this session moves beyond theory.
We will focus on practical, real-world applications:
How to navigate moments where policy, power, and care collide
Ways to practice dignity-based, non-carceral care within institutional settings
Strategies for sustaining meaningful, ethical engagement in complex systems
This space is especially relevant for those who have felt the gap between what they know is right and what systems allow, and are seeking grounded, actionable ways to respond.
Pricing is structured to increase access for grassroots and peer-led spaces while sustaining this work within larger funded institutions
Reframing Trauma-Informed Practice in Complex Systems
Moving from charity → solidarity
With practical tools for non-carceral care
Trauma-informed practice is widely used across healthcare, housing, and social services but often in ways that focus on individual experiences while leaving broader systemic conditions unexamined.
This session invites a wider lens.
Together, we will explore how trauma is shaped not only by personal experience, but by the environments and systems people are navigating—including policy, institutional culture, and broader social conditions.
We will look at how common frameworks—such as nervous system regulation and the “window of tolerance” can be valuable, but incomplete when disconnected from context.
Participants will be invited to reflect on:
The relationship between systems, power, and trauma
How organizational structures can unintentionally reproduce harm
The tensions workers experience when trying to provide care within constrained environments
We will introduce critical concepts, including necropolitics and deficit-based narratives, and explore how these show up in everyday practice.
Importantly, this session moves beyond theory.
We will focus on practical, real-world applications:
How to navigate moments where policy, power, and care collide
Ways to practice dignity-based, non-carceral care within institutional settings
Strategies for sustaining meaningful, ethical engagement in complex systems
This space is especially relevant for those who have felt the gap between what they know is right and what systems allow, and are seeking grounded, actionable ways to respond.
