Ways to Calm a Young Brain in Trauma

In "7 Ways to Calm a Young Brain in Trauma," Lori Desautels shares ways that she supports her K-6 students, many of whom have experienced trauma. Some of those ways:

• Taking deep breaths.
• Collective sound and movement (e.g. drumming a rhythm together).
• Self-massage (e.g. a rubbing a drop of lotion into one's hands).
• More movement (e.g. rock along one's spine)
• Chant with fingers on vocal chords.
• A wiggling body scan.
• Dancing with scarves.

For more about what is known about trauma and the brain and Desautels' choices for addressing it, you can read the full article here.