Animating Adversity: This animation explores Adverse Childhood Experiences, offering insights to professionals working with children impacted by traumatic events. For more information please visit - www.kazzum.org/trauma-informed-approach

An overview of The Science of Neglect: The Persistent Absence of Responsive Care Disrupts the Developing Brain, a Working Paper from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.

Dr. Nadine Burke-Harris talks about adverse childhood experiences and the importance of understanding individual experiences as a GP.

David Williams of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health looks at the social and behavioral factors that play a role in triggering toxic stress for children and adults.

Dr. Brené Brown is a researcher professor at the University of Houston, Graduate College of Social Work, where she has spent the past ten years studying a concept that she calls Wholeheartedness, posing the questions: How do we engage in our lives from a place of authenticity and worthiness?

This talk examines how relationships and reflection support the development of resilience in children and serve as the basic '3 R's" of a new internal education of the mind.

The attachment theory argues that a strong emotional and physical bond to one primary caregiver in our first years of life is critical to our development.

From the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, this video talks about the three “science by design” principles to guid community leaders, policymakers, and practitioners for developing programs, practices, and services for children and families.

Watch and hear from elementary school students learning to use mindfulness to navigate complex feelings.

What is the best way to ease someone's pain and suffering? In this beautifully animated RSA Short, Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really get in touch with our own fragilities. 

Watch a compassion trauma circle at a USA maximum security prison in this inspiring video. An initiative run by the Compassion Prison Project. https://compassionprisonproject.org  

In this talk Gabor Mate speaks about 8 key ideas relating to trauma.

Dr Dan Siegel speaks about adolescenet development.

Dr Dan Siegel deomstrates how to use the hand model metafor to explain the brain and stress response. 

This short animated film has been developed to raise awareness of ACEs, their potential to damage health across the life course and the roles that different agencies can play in preventing ACEs and supporting those affected by them. The film has been produced for Public Health Wales and Blackburn with Darwen Local Authority.