Growing Resilience: Being Trauma Informed Course 
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​Information About Earning College Credit 

You can earn 3 Graduate or Undergraduate College Credits or CEUs with additional hours and cost.  

The cost of this course without college credit / CEUs is $650 and includes 30 hours of course time.

The cost of the course with 3 college credits requires an additional cost and time commitment:

• The total price for the course earning 3 college credits is $1505.
• ​Receiving credit requires 15 outside of class hours.
  

See details below.  Contact Abbi Jaffe with any questions.  abbi.jaffe(at)gmail.com  

​Additional 15 (Outside of Class) Hour Requirements:

The additional 15 hours are fulfilled by completing:

• 11 hours in an approved embodiment class.  
  • In the class:
    • Use the embodiment class time to practice, integrate and explore the embodiment material we present in the Growing Resilience course.  
    • We invite you to ask the question, “How does attending this class affect my nervous system?”
    • We invite you to study the culture of the class and notice how the teacher/community creates or doesn’t create a trauma informed space.
    • When applicable, we invite you to consider where the embodiment practice comes from, how the teachers/community are connected to the lineage of the practice, and in what way do they share their connection to the lineage of the practice. We also invite you to consider who the class is accessible to, who attends the class and why that might be.
  • Classes at The Everything Space that are already approved: Contact Improv Jam or Series, Axis Syllabus Series, Co-Regulation, Circling, Rise-Up, Co-Motion.  Other approved classes include going to Dance Tribe VT, Ecstatic Dance in Montpelier, or attending any Mediation, Yoga, or Martial Arts classes. A sports game, or archery class, or an art class could be approved if you have a plan that shares with us how you will use the class to integrate the course material.   
  • The cost of the Growing Resilience course includes a stipend that you can use to pay part or all of the cost of the embodiment class hours.
• 1 hour for a mid course meeting with Abbi or Amanda.  
• 3 hours of online engagement (6 posts on different topics that will be assigned for homework during the course).

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The Grade Scale % Overview:

30%     Participation/Attendance                              
5%     Annotated Bibliography (4-6 entries)            
5%        Personal Timeline Art                     
15%     Embodiment Practice + Reflection Paper        
5%     Case Study                         
10%     Trauma Informed Principles                
5%        Mid-Course Meeting and Eval       
5%         Addition of 3 Practitioners to the Trauma Informed Network  
15%     Final Project           
5%        Final Course Survey 
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Grade Scale in Detail Part 1: Required for Credit Recipients ONLY

Participation/Attendance: Attend face-to-face in class sessions and participate in online forum including discussions and activities.

• 6 postings on online forum (3 hours of online engagement)
  • 2 posts on personal experience with the material
  • 2 posts on your reflections from the required readings
  • 2 posts sharing relevant helpful resources
• Attend all 10 face to face in class sessions (30 hours)
• Attend 11 hours of approved embodiment classes
• Attend a 1 hour mid-course check in with Abbi or Amanda.

 Annotated Bibliography of 4-6 Relevant Texts

• Share with us 4-6 additional sources (books, articles) related to the course curriculum and a short description of what it is about.
  

 
 Embodiment Practice + Reflection Paper  

• Write a 2 page reflection paper about
  • How did attending the embodiment classes help me practice, integrate and explore the embodiment material from the Growing Resilience course?
  • “How did attending the classes affect my nervous system?”
  • What did I notice about the culture of the class?  How did the teacher/community create or not create a trauma informed space?
  • What culture does the embodiment practice in the class come from? How are the teachers/community connected to the lineage of the practice, and in what way do they share their connection to the lineage of the practice?
  • Who the class is accessible to? Who attends the class and why that might be?​

Mid-Course Meeting and Eval

• Participate in a one-on-one mid course meeting with Abbi or Amanda.  
  
• Complete the Mid-Course Eval Check-in form when it is assigned.

Grade Scale in Detail Part 2: 
​Required for Credit Recipients and ALL Class Participants:

Personal Timeline Art: Use art to make a personal timeline that places in a historical context significant events relating to personally experienced grief, trauma, and resilience.

Case Study with online reflection form

Trauma Informed Principles:  Create Trauma Informed Principles for your classroom/practice after researching Trauma Informed practices in your related field

Addition of 3 practitioners to the TI Network:  Who are 3 practitioners in your community that are trauma informed?  We invite you to have conversations with practitioners about what trauma informed means to them and share with them what it means to you.  More information will come when this gets assigned.
​Final Project:

• The final project is an opportunity to integrate a piece of your learning from the course or share any research you have done.  
• You will have ten minutes of the class’s attention.  
• How to use the time:
  • Research something related to the class material and share your research.  This is an opportunity for the rest of the class to learn about something you are deeply interested that hasn’t been talked about in depth already.
  • Teach us something you learned in class that you want to be able to teach well or understand better.  This creates a valuable opportunity for the rest of the class to learn a piece of the curriculum again, from a different perspective.  
  • Teach something outside of class (or share the material in some way), and then share with us the insights of your teaching and/or ask for thoughts from the class.