Preconference Training
Pre-Conference Training
In-Person Thursday, October 16, 2025
Kick off your CRI Annual Conference experience with a full-day, in-person learning session with leaders in education, somatic practice, and community resilience.
Preconference training must be purchased separately from the conference ticket.
$150
Foundations of Trauma Informed Practices and Resilience
with Penny Capko
Pre-Conference Training: Thursday, October 16, 2025 from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm Pacific Time
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.
$150
Self-Regulation for Early Learners: Trauma-Informed Strategies and Practices
with Teresa Posakony
Pre-Conference Training: Thursday, October 16, 2025 from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm Pacific Time
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)
Self-Regulation is a skill and capacity that children develop in relationship with the adults around them through co-regulation. Children mirror adult stress and relaxation behaviors, language patterns, emotional states, and postural reactions. Since approximately 95% of brain development occurs by the age of 6, for early learners, every interaction is an opportunity for brain building.
$150
CRI Workshop: Blueprint for Framing Your Community Initiative
with Becky Turner
Pre-Conference Training: Thursday, October 16, 2025 from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm Pacific Time
This hands-on workshop will help participants frame their own community initiatives. For this workshop the term community may refer to anything from a small group to a large organization, or from a neighborhood to a municipality.
Workshop 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 teach 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.