Community Resilience Initiative
This is a Pre-Conference Offering on October 16, 2025
This course will take place in person at,1810 N Greene Street, Spokane, Washington, 99217 from 8:30pm to 3:30pm PST.
(1/2 hour lunch provided)
Build a strong foundation in trauma-informed practices and resilience with CRI's KISS framework (Knowledge, Insight, Strategies, and Structure). This course guides you through our approach to translating theory into practical application of evidence-based resilience strategies. You will explore the foundational NEAR sciences (Neuroscience, Epigenetics, ACE Studies, and Resilience), understand the vital link between Knowledge and Insight ("Beneath Behavior"), and learn core strategies to enhance your ability to support others. The central goal is to provide you with the knowledge and evidence-based resilience strategies to effectively identify and respond to trauma, even when an individual’s history is unknown.
- Teacher: Penny Capko
This is a Pre-Conference Offering on October 16, 2025
This course will take place in person at,1810 N Greene Street, Spokane, Washington, 99217 from 8:30pm to 3:30pm PST.
(1/2 hour lunch provided)
Self-Regulation for Early Learners is a curriculum for the supportive adults in children’s lives and for the children themselves. It uses trauma informed strategies and practices to teach people of all ages how to use their smart bodies to experience:
- Relaxation
- Regulation
- Stress relief
- Optimal learning
- Playful connections with others
- Positive mental and physical development (for children).
- Teacher: Teresa Posakony
This is a Pre-Conference Offering on October 16, 2025
This course will take place in person at,1810 N Greene Street, Spokane, Washington, 99217 from 8:30pm to 3:30pm PST.
(1/2 hour lunch provided)
This hands-on workshop will help participants frame their own resilience initiatives by examining their communities from the perspective of social determinants of health.
This 6-hour, hands-on workshop will help participants frame their own community initiatives, whereby the community may be anything from a small group to a large organization. The workshop is not meant to create a fully fleshed work plan, as each community is different. Instead, participants will elevate questions and concepts of individual resilience to a community-wide level. They will examine their communities from the perspective of social determinants of health. Who in the community is present at the table to identify the risk factors present? Who makes the decisions, and who is at the receiving end? Are participants’ ideas of what needs to change in a community based on a limited personal scope of vision, or are they aligned with the views of those affected by the outcomes?
Communities are living systems, which is why linear approaches to addressing adversities often do not bring the desired results. This workshop uses the salmon cycle as a living systems model. As an indicator species, salmon teaches us a lot about survival, about safety and connection. This workshop’s goal is to provide a foundation and nourishing framework for enriching our communities now and in the future.
- Teacher: Rebeckah Turner