In Person Courses

Annual Conference

Pathways to Resilience

July 20 – 21, 2023

Our annual conference will be held from 8 am – 4 pm on Thursday, July 20 and Friday, July 21 at the Hotel Roanoke Conference Center in Virginia. The Hotel Roanoke is located at 110 Shenandoah Ave NE, Roanoke, VA 24016.

Building resilience is both an individual and a community endeavor. Attendees are welcome from all different pathways that can bring hope and healing to the world. 

Don’t miss this two-day opportunity to connect with others from around the world for talks, activities, and workshops exploring the science and practice of resilience building and how it is connected to our mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.

Live Webinar Courses

Course 1: Trauma-Informed

Two-Day Seminar – June 14 & 16, 2023

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm (Eastern)

A dynamic 2 part six-hour LIVE WEBCAST course, Course 1 introduces CRI’s capacity-building framework for building resilience, KISS.  Knowledge, Insight, Strategies and Structure describes our community’s learning and movement from theory to practice and how to implement evidence-based strategies into action. The training includes three groups of topics:  the NEAR sciences, a cluster of emerging scientific findings in the fields of Neuroscience, Epigenetics, ACE Study, and Resilience; Beneath Behavior, the critical transition from Knowledge to Insight; and ROLES, CRI’s signature training on Recognize, Observe, Label, Elect and Solve, core strategies that take us below the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The key objective is to provide information about identifying and responding to trauma with evidence-based resilience strategies when working with an audience whose trauma history may not be known.

This course is facilitated by Laura Clark.

Registration is limited to 40 individuals.

Course 1: Trauma-Informed

June 23, 2023

9:00 am – 4:00 pm (Eastern)

A dynamic 1 part six-hour LIVE WEBCAST course, Course 1 introduces CRI’s capacity-building framework for building resilience, KISS.  Knowledge, Insight, Strategies and Structure describes our community’s learning and movement from theory to practice and how to implement evidence-based strategies into action. The training includes three groups of topics:  the NEAR sciences, a cluster of emerging scientific findings in the fields of Neuroscience, Epigenetics, ACE Study, and Resilience; Beneath Behavior, the critical transition from Knowledge to Insight; and ROLES, CRI’s signature training on Recognize, Observe, Label, Elect and Solve, core strategies that take us below the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The key objective is to provide information about identifying and responding to trauma with evidence-based resilience strategies when working with an audience whose trauma history may not be known.

This course is facilitated by Laura Clark.

Registration is limited to 40 individuals.

Course 1: Trauma-Informed Training of Trainers

August 7 – 9, 2023

9:00 am – 12:00 pm (Pacific)

Trauma-Informed Certification Training for Trainers prepares individuals to conduct CRI’s Trauma-Informed Certification Program, Course 1 in his or her organization or agency. Attendees learn to deliver material consistent with relevant research. Receive training tips to present everything from the N.E.A.R. Sciences, Brain States, and CRI’s signature R.O.L.E.S. Training; a research-based approach to responding to trauma. This acclaimed training for trainers also introduces individuals to ECTcellence, a trauma-informed instructional framework to guide the learning process.

Attendees for Course 1 Trauma-Informed Training of Trainers must have taken CRI’s Course 1.

Registration is limited to 50 individuals.

Trauma-Informed Leadership 1

August 14 – 15, 2023

9:00 am – 12:00 pm (Pacific)

Trauma-Informed Leadership I is the first tier of the certification series.  This session takes place Live on Zoom on August 14, and 15 at 9:00 AM and ends at 12:00 PM PST each day.  Limited to the first 50 Individuals.

This session includes the Series Intro-duction & Neuro Mechanisms.

This tier is designed to help participants understand that our brains don’t work the way we think they do. The magic of the brain is not found in the parts it is made of, but in the way those parts work together. We think we see the world and ourselves as we really are, but we miss quite a lot and inaccurately assume a great deal more. This introductory tier is about the brain and neural mechanisms the brain uses to help us navigate our world. This session serves as an essential foundation for the remainder of the series.

Self-Paced On-Demand Courses

Introduction to the Science of Trauma and Resilience

Choose your start date and take the course at your own pace.

This dynamic mini-course introduces you to the science of trauma and resilience: the NEAR sciences, a cluster of emerging scientific findings in the fields of Neuroscience, Epigenetics, ACE Studies, and Resilience.

Learn the basics of trauma and resilience with Rick Griffin, the Executive Director of the Community Resilience Initiative.

Course 1: Trauma-Informed

Choose your start date and take the course at your own pace.

This self-paced, six-part training course introduces you to Community Resilience Initiative’s framework for building resilience, KISS: Knowledge, Insight, Strategies, and Structures. KISS describes our learning from theory to practice and how to implement strategies into action. This course includes three groups of topics: the NEAR sciences, a cluster of emerging scientific findings in the fields of Neuroscience, Epigenetics, ACE Studies, and Resilience; Beneath Behavior, which uses the knowledge of brain networks to gain insight into the factors that drive behavior; and R.O.L.E.S., CRI’s signature strategy to responding to trauma. The key objective is to provide information about identifying and responding to trauma with evidence-based resilience strategies when working with an audience whose trauma history may not be known. 

Course 2: Trauma-Supportive

Choose your start date and take the course at your own pace.

A dynamic self-paced, on-demand course will help to transform your organization, classroom, or family through resilience-based strategies. Using trauma-informed principles, the course teaches individuals to systematically create the positive environment that is essential for lasting success. Learn more than 30 strategies and promising approaches utilized by some of the nation’s finest trauma-informed practitioners. This will include strategies to:

  • Build a positive culture in the classroom, office, or the family
  • Foster resilience through affirming communication
  • Create effective regulation skills
  • Deliver compassionate and empowering discipline
  • Teach others about their own trauma and stress response
  • Develop trauma-informed conflict resolution skills

*Attendees for Course 2 must have taken Course 1: Trauma-Informed.

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