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This site is for you if you learn, teach, counsel, or support learning and change in any role.

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We are a group of individuals who hold radical respect for the ways all people negotiate hardship and injustice.

 

We offer resources and create community to:​

  • Increase understanding of the complexities of violence and trauma

  • Appreciate the brilliance of how humans survive

  • Recognize the impact of such experiences on learning in every setting and at every age

  • Work for change in institutions and organizations, and

  • Support greater learning success for babies, children, youth, and adults

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ARCHIVES

We used to be learningandviolence.net

For 20 years this site has housed our resources to support learning in the presence of violence and oppression. All for free. Go ahead and take a look. If you have questions, send us a message.

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GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Our approach to all our work is grounded in curiosity, connection and conscious awareness of the ways our brains and bodies respond to conditions 

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CURIOSITY

Curiosity is the heart and foundation of our approach

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CONNECTION

Connection allows us to be present to learning

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CONSCIOUS

AWARENESS

Conscious awareness of how our brain and nervous system protect us helps us discover what we need to get present enough to learn.

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perspective

Our work is shaped by the way we view violence, the consequences of all we do to survive, the possibilities for supporting learning, and the oppressive colonialist society we all live within.

VIOLENCE

Violence is anything that objectifies people, other creatures, or the earth —seeing that being as a thing to use, exploit, or damage

SURVIVING

Our brilliant brains and nervous systems help us survive moment by moment. Survival mode impacts what and how we engage in learning.

SUPPORTING LEARNING  

When we acknowledge the impact of violence on learning, we can become curious and creative to support successful learning

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Learning takes place in the world, a world to which we all have a responsibility – a response ability

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We Don’t Just Get Over It is a series created for Victims and Survivors of Crime Week 2021.

 

Watch our video 'What's Wrong?' above.

 

Read Three Windows and a Trapdoor to see into a crime and its impact.

 

Read a series of new messages that introduce a Learning and Violence Stance because we need more than trauma-informed.

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