TRAUMA INFORMED
CREATING PROGRAMS, CLASSROOMS, AND COMMUNITIES THAT HEAL
Trauma impacts all people. Youth and educators grapple with their personal and collective trauma in and outside of the learning space. Creative Praxis crafts innovative trainings that speak directly to the specific challenges that educators face, such as burnout, dealing with trauma responses when they show up at home and in learning spaces, and how to develop positive coping strategies for healing and growth.
Trainings are designed to be an interactive, transformative experience. We create space for participants to explore the theory of the content, then provide intentional time for application. Our trauma-informed training is one of the most highly-requested, and leaves individuals and groups with a collection of tools and experiences that can be applied directly to the classroom and entire school/program community.
We focus on increasing participants' abilities to create trauma-informed and healing-centered spaces using an art-based anti-racist framework. By taking an embodied approach to the understanding of trauma and healing, we enable participants to think about trauma in themselves and the young people they work with on the level of the human body. What activities foster trust, safety, and build healing competencies? We dive deep into these questions through practice.
Creative Praxis' trauma-informed, healing-centered curriculum allows educators and youth the necessary space to build knowledge around these subjects in a safe environment. To learn more about this training, please visit the main Approaches and Trainings page or email info@creativepraxis.org.
Expanding Trauma-Informed Practices for Sustainable Learning Environments
In Philadelphia, educators and youth program leaders are increasingly seeking meaningful approaches to address the growing impact of stress, grief, and systemic challenges in the classroom. At Creative Praxis, we offer immersive trauma-informed education experiences that go beyond theory—centering healing through embodiment, creativity, and radical care.
Our training supports those facing secondary traumatic stress and provides actionable tools to counter burnout through self-awareness, collective care, and body-based strategies. Whether you’re a teacher, youth worker, or nonprofit leader, our trauma-informed facilitators guide participants through exercises that promote trust, reflection, and sustainable practice.
We integrate arts and movement to create a deeper understanding of trauma and healing in real-time. Our methods are rooted in trauma-informed design in education, helping schools and organizations build environments that reduce re-traumatization and foster authentic relationships.
Participants leave with adaptable practices for trauma-informed classroom management and an improved ability to recognize and respond to trauma cues—within themselves and in the young people they support. We don’t just offer information; we help build healing-centered ecosystems in which staff and students can thrive.
Whether you're located in North, West, or Center City Philadelphia, our healing-centered training sessions meet the needs of diverse communities. Contact us to co-create a session that supports vicarious trauma support for professionals in your school or organization.
Our trauma-informed approach is especially valuable for educators seeking long-term, sustainable strategies in Philadelphia’s evolving learning environments. By combining burnout prevention for educators with healing-centered training, we help transform classrooms into safe, empowering spaces where both staff and students can process, reflect, and grow with resilience and compassion.
Creative Praxis' trauma-informed, healing-centered curriculum allows educators and youth the necessary space to build knowledge around these subjects in a safe environment. To learn more about this training, please visit the main Approaches and Trainings page or email info@creativepraxis.org.
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What does your anti-racism training for educators involve?We focus on systemic analysis, identity work, and liberatory practices. Our sessions equip educators with tools to build affirming, anti-oppressive learning environments for all students. Anti-racism trainings are interactive and tailored to meet the needs of each group, using storytelling, art, and real-world application.
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How is anti-racist leadership development different from other training?We center justice in leadership. Our programs help leaders address bias, build inclusive teams, and guide systems change in education and youth development spaces. Participants engage in reflective exercises, role-play scenarios, and strategic planning to foster anti-racist leadership that sustains long-term change.
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Do you offer community organizing training and civic engagement workshops in Philadelphia?Yes. We offer arts-integrated workshops that empower individuals and groups to engage critically with social issues and take meaningful action in their communities. Whether through coalition building, campaign strategy, or public narrative development, we support participants in becoming confident, effective agents of change.
STRENGTHENING FOUNDATIONs BY ROOTING IN COMMUNITY
We believe in the power of the community and its ability to heal, transform, educate, organize and ultimately be a catalyst for individual and collective liberation. Our community-centered approach is especially relevant for educators, organizers, and institutions in Philadelphia who seek to build sustainable, healing-centered environments.
Therefore, we emphasize community building as a foundational process in each training. Creative Praxis is grounded in 4 key principles of community building:
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Entering, building, and exiting community: How do we enter into space with another human being? How do we build coming from an asset-based, humanistic framework? How do we exit community in a way that honors the land, the people, and the relationships built?
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I AM: Creating intentional time for people to explore and share their history, culture, identity, and dreams. What sets us apart is our emphasis on interactive facilitation. Our facilitators bring trauma-informed, arts-based methods that activate learning.
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WE ARE: Creating intentional time for the group to establish shared principles and cultivating collective power, trust, and safety
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The role of conflict in building community: Conflict is a necessary component of building community as it allows to the group to confront and resist systemic oppression and the way it manifests itself in the individual and the group. Our conflict resolution training for schools is designed to move beyond behavior management and instead foster honest, restorative dialogue that builds long-term trust.
Building community in your school, program, or organization is an everyday commitment. Through our culturally responsive trainings, we facilitate deeper understanding of the collective and individual identities and experiences in the room. From there, we are able to build a more solid and resilient foundation.
To learn more about how Creative Praxis builds community, visit the main Approaches and Trainings page or email info@creativepraxis.org.
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What does your anti-racism training for educators involve?We focus on systemic analysis, identity work, and liberatory practices. Our sessions equip educators with tools to build affirming, anti-oppressive learning environments for all students. Anti-racism trainings are interactive and tailored to meet the needs of each group, using storytelling, art, and real-world application.
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How is anti-racist leadership development different from other training?We center justice in leadership. Our programs help leaders address bias, build inclusive teams, and guide systems change in education and youth development spaces. Participants engage in reflective exercises, role-play scenarios, and strategic planning to foster anti-racist leadership that sustains long-term change.
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Do you offer community organizing training and civic engagement workshops in Philadelphia?Yes. We offer arts-integrated workshops that empower individuals and groups to engage critically with social issues and take meaningful action in their communities. Whether through coalition building, campaign strategy, or public narrative development, we support participants in becoming confident, effective agents of change.