Profile Information
Location
Asheville, NC
Country
United States
Postal Code
28806
What is it you do for a living? (Parenting, volunteering, CEO of social service organization, etc.)
School Administrator, private consultant
What organization(s) do you volunteer or work for?
Black Mountain Academy,
Personal business is developing in mindfulness consultation for schools, children, and families
What is your interest in PACEs and resilience science?
I have a special interest in childhood trauma, how it affects the nervous system, and how to bolster resilience. I have academic licensure in Special Education and School Administration, and I am enrolled in the Mindful Schools Yearlong Certification Program to graduate in August of 2017. I have attended a two day CRM training. I'm largely self-taught in trauma resiliency, largely out of personal experience with healing my own nervous system, and have read quite a bit. I also work alongside clinicians and have treated education as a whole-child endeavor throughout my career. As Associate Director at Evergreen Charter, I brought a school-wide character education foundation to the school, and at that time, read How Children Succeed, and was introduced to ACES in that book. I attended the 2015 ACES conference in Asheville.