The Massachusetts Library System is pleased to announce that we have contracted with PCI Webinars to provide our members with access to their live webinars.  These webinars are free to MLS members who register through our calendar. Please do not register directly with PCI. Members who register directly with PCI are responsible for paying their registration fee. 

Please help us keep MLS sponsored training free for all members. If you are unable to attend the live webinar, please cancel your registration. A cancellation link can be found in your confirmation email, or you may contact Sarah Donnelly at sdonnelly@masslibsystem.org to cancel. 

Because we are working with an outside vendor, it is important that you cancel your registration in the event that you are unable to attend the live webinar.  A recording of the webinar will be available on the PCI Webinars Niche Academy website about a week after the live webinar.  If you have any issues registering or signing into the PCI Webinars Niche Academy website, please let us know.  Please do not contact PCI Webinars or Niche Academy directly about their live webinars or webinar recordings.

Description

This one-hour webinar will give you a brief overview of what it means to experience trauma and how it manifests. We will discuss ways to help your staff and your physical spaces be more trauma-sensitive, including topics such as sensory issues and architecture, self-defense, mindfulness, self-care, non-violent intervention, and mental health first aid training.

We will practice looking at a space with our trauma glasses on. We'll also explore different populations that may be living with trauma and how to make programs accessible for everyone.

Learning Outcomes

Using mindfulness techniques, we will also ask ourselves some tough questions about our own coping skills and what trauma we may be bringing to the workplace and how to greet ourselves and others with kindness and compassion.

Presenter

Jenn Carson ~ Biography

Jenn Carson is an internationally recognized expert in physical literacy, an award-winning author, a yoga teacher, a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and boxing coach, and the director of the L.P. Fisher Public Library in Woodstock, New Brunswick. She is a visionary leader who was deemed by Amplify East as a remarkable woman making a difference in Atlantic Canada. In 2019, she was named a Mover & Shaker by Library Journal and hailed as The Lethal Librarian in a feature profile in [Edit] Magazine for her radical leadership and library advocacy.

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