Haptic Trauma Healing Workshop: Lakeland, FL

Learn trauma-informed, relational practices at the pottery wheel and enrich your teaching practices. (90 mins online required, see below**)

By Center for Haptic Healing

Date and time

January 25, 2025 · 9am - January 26, 2025 · 3:30pm EST

Location

Marvelous Mud Pottery Studio

4035 South Florida Ave Lakeland, FL 33813

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Agenda

Day One
Day Two

9:00 AM

Introductions

What you need to know about trauma and why it matters

Definition of trauma; Effects of trauma; Neurobiology of trauma; Break-out groups, reflecting and dialogue

It's all about relationships

What it means to be relational and why it’s important; Break-out groups, reflecting and dialogue

Resilience is key, and it doesn't happen on its own

Definitions of resilience; Individual resilience; Organizational resilience; Break-out groups, reflecting and dialogue

The foundations of Haptic Trauma Healing -- why this work is healing

Neurobiological; Transpersonal; Relational; Break-out groups, reflecting and dialogue

The versatility of these practices, even for hand building

Why throwing is unique, and the versatility of these practices, even for hand building; Why this isn’t art therapy

Being trauma-informed -- it doesn't just mean you're informed about trauma

Principles of trauma-informed practices; Trauma-informed individuals; Trauma-informed organizations; Break-out groups, reflecting and dialogue

About this event

  • 1 day 6 hours

This two-day intensive professional development training heightens your awareness of trauma, and provides you with the tools to combine your unique teaching methods with conscious, intentional, relational practices to make your studio space trauma-informed. **PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE A 90 MINUTE SESSION ONLINE PRIOR TO THE IN-PERSON EVENT. THE ONLINE SECTION IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND THE IN-PERSON TRAINING.**

This workshop emphasizes:

  • Easy to understand techniques and concepts
  • Lots of dialog and group engagement
  • Learning that is experiential/practical as well as Socratic

You will be able to:

  • Seemlessly blend your own teaching techniques with new relational practices to give your students a more integrative experience, whether at the wheel or hand building
  • Define trauma and understand the basic principles of being trauma-informed
  • Describe the eight principles of Haptic Trauma Healing and harness all of them
  • Identify ways to make your studio feel safer to all your students
  • Help clients who become distressed, triggered, or emotional at the wheel
  • Identify the five states of relatedness when we teach students to throw clay
  • Help heal a dysregulated nervous system


Frequently asked questions

Who is this for?

Whether you’re new to teaching, a veteran educator, a graduate student who hopes to teach, or a potter interested in personal growth, this training is valuable for all levels of experience.

Will this change my studio?

Yes, it will make is safer.

But I don't want my studio to become a behavioral health center. What about that?

We don't want that either! And that's not what will happen. Seventy percent of your students have already experienced trauma or are living with a traumatic injury. Many of them are showing up at your studio because throwing clay feels healing. This workshop just acknowledges that.

Is this therapy?

Nope. It's not therapy. It is therapeutic. You don't have to be a therapist to be therapeutic. Let's change the dialogue about who gets to be a healer.

I already know how to throw and I'm a great teacher. Am I going to have to change how I teach?

The beauty of this training is nothing changes in terms of the mechanics of how any one individual teaches or throws. You will be learning practices that will enrich your teaching. You may choose to include whatever is most valuable to you (and omit what is not).

Is this applicable to hand building?

Absolutely. Almost any of the practices we talk about can be applied to hand building. There are things about the pottery wheel and throwing that are uniquely healing, and we certainly emphasize that -- but all of the learning is applicable to hand building.

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Center for Haptic Healing

Training ceramics instructors in studios, schools, community arts centers, and institutions of higher education to use trauma-informed, relational practices at the pottery wheel.

$399