Learning Opportunities

As this workshop focuses on the role of toxic shame - a by-product of Canada's colonial policies, the residential school experience & the "60's  scoop" - in the intergenerational transmission of trauma, participants will learn how shame inducing patterns of interaction in the parent- child dyad transform the architecture of a child's developing brain thus ensuring a vulnerability to addiction in later life while also strengthening the neural pathways that ensure the transmission of trauma to the next generation. Participants will also be introduced to the practice of Mindfulness as one of many strategies to help adult children of trauma break the cycle of trauma. This practice of Mindfulness can be adapted to a class room environment.