EDTalks: Trauma-informed Classrooms + Self-Care for Educators

Unfortunately this EDTalks is sold out -- check back next month for details on our February event!

Our EDTalks presenters:

Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences: Building Self-Healing Communities

Mark Sander is Director of School Mental Health for Hennepin County and Minneapolis Public Schools and a Senior Clinical Psychologist for Hennepin County. As a certified Master Trainer in the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACES), he helps develop trauma informed organizations and trauma sensitive schools, and publishes and speaks nationally on school mental health. Mark is former Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland Medical School, and also serves as visiting scholar at Wilder Research.

The Revolution Starts from Within:  Integrating Self-Care Into our Lives

Rebeka Ndosi recently left the education and nonprofit worlds to focus on individual and collective healing. A licensed acupuncturist and level II trained yoga and meditation instructor, she is the owner of Healing Illuminated and co-owner of People’s Movement Center. Rebeka was nominated for an Emmy as producer of TPT’s (Twin Cities Public Television) narrative-changing Black Brilliance, which featured five African American high school seniors. She also teaches yoga and meditation to probational youth in St. Paul, and believes that healing takes place when we are seen and heard as who we really are.

Our emcee for the evening is Adia Morris.