The Path of Resilience: Processing Trauma through Learning, Social Emotional Support, and Empowerment
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2015
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Educational Studies
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In this thesis I research how educators and communities can respect the feelings
and realities of those experiencing trauma. I look at the ways we can frame learning
experiences so that they empower people; allowing them to process their trauma safely
and develop resilience. I describe three experiences I have participated in over my time
attending Swarthmore College. These separate excerpts are interconnected in the ways
that participants entered into an opportunity to constructively process their trauma, with
the social emotional support of community members, and were therefore able to become
agents of self-advocacy and change.