Meet Your Facilitator - Lexie Groves

NEAR Science

• Recognize how the brain has a complex and vital role in one’s environment

• Understand the brain’s role in processing (or recall) of past events

• Define the function of the three brain systems (brainstems, limbic, and pre-frontal cortex

• Interpret how the brain system’s function interacts with environment and how the internal process of the brain

• engages with those external experiences (past and present)

• Define epigenetics

• Understand how environment influences (silences and/or activates) specific genes which create a unique

• version of you

• Apply the knowledge of epigenetics in determining how DNA (nature) impacts one’s behavior (nurture)

• Separate impacts of experience and interpretation of experience in order to apply epigenetics role in trauma

• events

• Examine the ACE study as a framework for categorizing individual levels of trauma

• Examine how awareness and education can work together to change one’s biologically and neurologically

• hardwired responses

• Define resilience

• Internalize the language of resilience to redefine the value of and application of the ACE framework

Brain States

• Analyze the biology of brain function to better understand the brain states and human behavior

• Understand the connection between behavior and biological brain state

• Understand how biological brain state impacts behavior

• Identify how environment factors impact behavior and biological brain state

• Identify “skill set” in connection to the three brain states: Executive, Emotional, and Survival

• How does an individual’s brain state impact their external behavior?

• Essential Questions:

• Can a more holistic understanding of the three different brain states positively direct how leaders guide a

• triggered individual?

• Can a more complex understanding of the neuroscience and brain states inform how a triggered individual

• experiences transformation?

• Break down the three primary states of the brain: survival state, emotional state, and executive state

• Identify common behaviors, skills, and primary goals associated with a specific activated brain state

ROLES

• Examine the impact of community to contradict adverse effects of epigenetics and trauma

• Identify and categorize insights that develop strategies that lead to essential community norms that transform

• into principles which can be transferred into policy and system application

• Recognize the five response steps in ROLES when interacting with a trauma-triggered individual

• Internalize the method and process of ROLES to create connection and personal calm between ones and

• neurological response and ones behaviors; both for the leader and the trauma-triggered individual

• Observe and identify common behaviors associated with an individual who is acting in the brainstem response

• Internalize and detect the five domains initiated in a trauma-triggered state

• Distinguish between non-verbal and para-verbal behaviors associated with a trauma-triggered state of mind

• Isolate one’s personal ability or inability to observe rather than judge the behaviors and/or responses of a

• trauma-triggered individual

• Practice LABELING with a trauma-triggered individual, from a perspective and position of empathy and objective

• awareness of the biological, behavioral, and emotional needs of the trauma-triggered individual

• Rehearse ROLES in order to avoid disconnection and re-traumatization to a trauma-triggered individual and

• instead create connection and restored calm

• Define and distinguish the language and behaviors related to a fixed mindset and a growth mindset

• Practice Solve steps: Identify brain state, center to an internal calm, communicate appropriately, and teach the

• deficient skill so that safety and connection are established for the trauma-triggered individual

• Differentiate

Module 1: The Basics

• Introductions

• Goals & Learning Objectives

• Who is CRI

• What is Trauma

• What is Trauma Informed

Module 2: NEAR

• Neuroscience

• Epigenetics

• ACEs Study

• Resilience

Module 3: Brain States

• Survival/Safety

• Emotional/Connection

• Executive Function/Learning

Module 4: The Individual Experience

Module 5: ROLES

• Recognize

• Observe

• Label

• Elect

• Solve