Trauma Informed Teaching
with Manny Kemphues

Session Description:

This session provides an introduction to some of the principles and practices of trauma informed teaching in order to support faculty with managing classrooms in which students are engaging with potentially triggering material. Faculty will learn a model for understanding what's happening when students switch from their learning brains to their survival brains and how to support students to enter, stay in, or return to a state in which they are capable of learning.

Speaker Bio:

Manny Kemphues is a Licensed Marriage and Family therapist who has been working with trauma survivors in various capacities since 2011. This work started with their position as a rape crisis counselor at Moving To End Sexual Assault in Boulder, CO. After two years, they moved into the additional roles of facilitating a supervision group of crisis counselors, and coordinating primary prevention programs. After enrolling in an MA in Clinical Psychology program at Antioch University Los Angeles in 2015, Manny has worked with a wide range of clients with trauma histories as a psychotherapist within the organizations Trans Youth Speak, The Relational Center, and Brave Trails Queer Therapy. Manny has also been an Adjunct Instructor at Antioch University since 2018 and has taught clinical psychology courses at UC San Bernardino.

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