Mythology

 This has podcasts for different ways to look at storytelling mythology and psychology, I'm particular to looking at the liminal and in story superhero stories

https://www.tellingabetterstory.com/#videos

Parodies

 I just realized that I could rip off of movies in a parody to bring comedy to my writing, humor to even the difficult parts

Like in the movie taken, I have a set of special skills that I will use to discuss what I need to.

It Ends With Us?

 Making a film based on a book that speaks out against domestic violence, there is still misogyny and retaliation in the background.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/reevaluating-blake-lively-it-ends-with-us-actresss-legal-complaint-against-justin-baldoni-puts-misogyny-in-the-spotlight-195854387.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_CLICKER_T1&ncid=crm_30541-1501458-20241225-0&bt_user_id=lxC%2FR2tkjsJAvoDVZ8jVw%2FDYW76wZntinxTjSOAMjP9u05rjvYVibmQaawdbDfwd&bt_ts=1735146560327

Poetry and mythology

 "Poetry in its own way is ultimately mythology." Stanley Kunitz

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBB23dnv2Ad/?igsh=bGd1eG80a2k2bzBp

Over the holiday work

 I want to take the article that James Gunn discussed how Superman can bring a divided America back together.

I want to finish the Matrix writing I've started

I want to work on that heuristic guide to the positive Trickster

The impact of Truman Show , working in corporate world 

I also want to write about Christmas movies

Start with this

Memoir

 It has to be about how we survive so we can help other people to know they can survive

It can't be about trying to get vengeance

To be about saving others as well as the healing Journey

Something in the writing should be attached to love and joy

Writing out of the love that we found from the black sheep gospel

I cry at the start of every movie

 I cry at the start of every movie / I guess cause I wish that I was making things too

https://youtu.be/HYbXt4_r9Pw?si=hu5GjeYGnHHCOB0q

Interlibrary loan

 Be sure to go back and check out those books again, as I was thinking about this back in December of 2022. I'm trying to figure out what led me but thinking of trout trauma-informed things and how to face my own histories through something I love.

Against masculinity

 Trying to find ways to not perform in a hyper-masculine way.

Women studies points out how patriarchal systems are damaging

Masculinity and Batman

 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/features/men-men0000398.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjuoIGs4KOKAxVZ6ckDHWMUOJQQFnoECBIQBg&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw3YXfsgYx0XhXuyIIsEX95D

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10509208.2015.1094361

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=superhero+films+masculinity+studies&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart#d=gs_qabs&t=1734059098788&u=%23p%3DrJRTT6AeW8MJ

Paternalism, performative masculinity and the post-9/11 cowboy in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy

Cathrine Avery

The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 12 (1), 65-81, 2023

Dark Knight at Fifteen: An Intersectional Retrospective

Erin Casey-Williams

REDEN. Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos 5 (2), 154–170-154–170, 2024

Characters within The Dark Knight access intersectional, systemic privileges linked to the performance of masculinity, whiteness, neoliberal class consciousness, and heteronormativity. Using cultural studies as the framework and intersectionality as the point of departure, this

In the batman, the privilege of being white and male and Rich does seem to be superseded by trauma. It's like what my spouse asked if Bruce Wayne is a billionaire why doesn't he give his money to the impoverished areas where we know then crime will go down. We'll, we learn why the money is gone

As far as masculinity that's a whole other story. This is a story where masculinity and the anger that can be pushed on to other bodies is changed during the film.

In fact  the individuation that Bruce Wayne goes through as a character

Problematic things

https://outwritenewsmag.org/2022/04/the-batman-2022-a-bisexuals-superhero-dream/#:~:text=I%20would%20even%20go%20further,my%20new%20favorite%20Bruce%20Wayne.

The batman IS an examination of toxic masculinity 

https://www.hercampus.com/school/gcu/the-batman-and-masculinity/

https://sunypress.edu/Blog/2022/Holy-Incel-Batman!-Part-1

https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/paul-dano-riddler-the-batman-movie-robert-pattinson-new-york-b985522.html

Screenwriter directors with a vision

 https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-treatment/matt-reeves-the-batman

I mean, people who don't go to superhero movies might be missing out, or people who are going just for the spectacle or entertainment might be missing out, or missing out on how these movies can see or show Humanity in a way that dramas can't, or normal Thrillers can't, or normal horror movies can't.

I mean, we have a criminal billionaire who is in power and the militia coming down to take out president-elect.

The screenplay was finished just days before January 6th.

Movies Make Magic

 I might name my book

Movies Make Magic

 

 at the movies for cinetherapy, modern mythology, and healing Poetics 

Vanessa Angelica Villarreal has an amazing book titled magical realism essays on music memory fantasy and borders

I know I need to find something that pops like that

At the Movies: How Mind, Myth, and Memoir Make the Magic

something with poetry in it

 

poetry

movies

mental health or self care or cinema therapy

modern mythology

 

key terms!

Brilliant

 I love how this article takes the films narrator and creates a meta moment from the language of the film!

"So now then.

This is the story of a budding cinephile who stumbled upon an unusual film and resolved, insofar as any 13-year-old can set firm intentions, to spend the rest of his life watching, and writing about, movies. An eighth-grader cross-legged on the floor of his parents’ bedroom, clicking the channel to IFC and finding the trio of uncanny coincidences that make up the film’s prologue. A solitary, bookish boy whose dreams came true, after a fashion, who proved that movies really can change your life — albeit in ways you can never quite plan on. And it is in the humble opinion of this narrator that this is not just something that happened. This cannot be one of those things. This was not simply a matter of chance. These strange things happen all the time."

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-12-06/magnolia-paul-thomas-anderson-1999-project

Forms

 I would love to include a letter to my son's or different Sons

Letter to Kimberly

Lists

Play with the you voice to represent my personal experiences

Dennis third person

Documents movie stubs, go through journals

Journals transcriptions

Collage

Describing scenes without noting movie

Describing the interview with Leonardo DiCaprio for the This Boy's Life movie

List of best top box office films

Experimental

 Experimental writing one thing I might try to do is switch from memoir to the movie description, as in describing what is happening to the movie and including dialogue but not mentioning the movie it came from. I would have it in the notes.

For instance talking about applying to McDonald's or working at McDonald's or even the thing about when I was asked to close and then having the switch to fast food nation the scene with the manager

My mom coming out to me followed by the scene in fried green tomatoes where the husband gets angry

Somewhere also collage was how the actors talked about how they played a queer but didn't want to be obvious just to escape the sensors

Like memoir, but memoir

 I like that Louise Krug as well as Jess Zimmerman writes with these collage points and they serve as really great examples of what I should do as I'm introducing concepts of mythology, AKA what other people say, what the trickster who is positive, what all of these things I want to introduce I just can't have without my story. It's going to be interspersing things but also describing use Rich details about spaces places, movie scenes, the things I really love. To bring the joy of even a really well filmed movie as I describe what makes that seem so well done, like the Punch-Drunk Love bathroom scene and how simply amazing it is with how sound and a still camera as if eavesdropping on a character who is simply lost it.

Be Like Joy

Joy and Corey visit for Thanksgiving and she excuses herself to get her daily practicing in. That's how I need to learn to be, to protect my time for daily poetic practice.

Research

 One year ago I started research for what the deeper exploration for film would be. I had already discovered the Illuminating Shadows book from a "podcast" before podcasts were a thing. A recorded interview via Hoopla.

Now I have completed the research. 

I just need to assemble and elaborate.

Sabbatical 2025

It's official! I was told I have a sabbatical and that my proposal was worthy. I'm deeply honored and humbled. I mostly feel at that moment of crossroads, where all of the roads from my life have intersected into the now.

At the movies for myth, mind, metaphor, and magic: a memoir 

These three representing mythology, psychology, and religion.

This Blog Affirms

 I am simply busy in a busy-busy way.

I am getting voice-to-text writing in as ideas come to me. I am so thankful for Google Docs and voice-to-text. 

I also want to include, I want to write a "what does success look like in the classroom?" article to help combat texting in class, ChatGPT and so on.

TIP writing

Kansas State English has published another of my Bold TIP tips and it gets me itching to work on a few more.

The safety and belonging survey

Finish the quilt work essay

Continue with voice to text

 It's wonderful to think that when we align our thoughts into working on a project we are passionate about, we can see how we find things in our everyday engagements to lead into writing.

I think of that Oprah Winfrey episode still, that when you have positive thoughts, you see the positive in everything. Also the opposite, via negative thoughts.

Writing

I think it's just wonderful that I'm in this deep meditation about the healing power of movies as well as the need for them. Having the chance to teach the tx200 class is furthering this concentration.

I'm using Google Docs a lot for just writing down ideas or outlines for writing. And even as I post this I'm doing it voice to text.

I'm also realizing I need to return so many library books back. I put a post up on Facebook with my 14 books that I need to return because I'm just not going to have the time to concentrate on them. However it's kind of nice to think about I have these resources I can turn back to and I just have to look at what I've checked out before to find them.

We're also canceling some of the events. Wednesday really set me back because it was that all day field trip and then I realized I felt behind.

But I'm just blocking weekends off for not doing any work. Setting those good boundaries. Plus the Royals even though they lost the first game in the ALDS playoff against the Yankees, they were definitely competitive and the game went back and forth which made it really enjoyable.

Projects

 The article about the need for the trickster how the trickster is portrayed in films as a way of modern mythology

The mental romcoms list of films

To wrap up the Matrix article

To lay out the possible chapters of the book

To list the books I'd like to use like art of memoir, girls on film, midnight fuel, and women and other monsters

My memoir

I know that the one thing I will need to keep in mind when I'm sitting down to writing is to have those books that I admire and can borrow from for my own approaches. I'm talking about women and other monsters, midnight fuel, and now this book Girls on Film lessons from a life of watching women in movies by Alicia Malone. What an amazing way to weave movies into her memoir.

On top of this I know that the academic kind of stuff that I want to interweave needs to be done in this tradition. That I'll need to just weave in the things about such a movie like xanadu. Already I am Vision the book for starting with the trailer but I'm sure in journaling about. Then although I definitely will travel through time throughout my book, I will need to Center on what would the most influential movie be. I'll need to call out the point that it's important for me to talk about gender studies and women's studies, that one movie which would be the mark of the most horrible of all films that even the razzies started, which would be Xanadu, was really at a crucial point in my life that I needed movies to save me.

Page 94 of Girls on Film would be a good way for me to write about Santa do, the culmination of what I could be, even the queer nods of the women who were more than sisters through their dancing, the lesbian call by Andre Lorde to claim and reclaim the body.

I'm at that point where I also need to carry around my rose quartz crystal again, as I see the trees and I'm so excited about the Autumn weather. I'm also excited about the prospect of finally getting this disc healed that's causing my limp leg.

 

Add Paisley Rekdal's The Broken Country!

End of September 2024

 I love that we had Autumn weather on the first day of autumn, but this really shows me to how September becomes a blur toward the end. There was just so much work.

I guess this is the argument for why sabbatical should just be given. We are going to use the time to develop our scholarly work in a way that we couldn't win we are teaching classes.

It would be hard to explain to someone who's a blue collar worker why this work can be exhausting. I know because I come from a family of blue collar workers. Their work was equally exhausting, in the study teaching life doesn't seem like it would be the same kind of work. It isn't!

It really is the anxieties and stresses of trying to avoid burnout, as well as how taxing it might be if a student plays Rises or continues to disrupt class, that we have to put extra energy and our minds are filled with those kind of things instead of just being able to cut off from the school and enjoy some time at home.

And what I mean by enjoy time at home, be able to do the things necessary at home too!

Okay I'm going to stop this and just say I finished another essay about the Matrix that I should polish. I like how these different things about the Matrix are turning out.

Wystan is getting into Queen's soundtrack to Highlander, so we will watch that soon, speeding forward through the sex scene.

Notes on what to work on next

 I'm going to write my cinema therapy article on mental romcom something I'll need to do Tuesday

So I should send out that emdr blog

Fastest rejection

 Psychology today let me know this morning that they were turning down my blog proposal. Well, that's the fastest rejection I've ever received, but I'm also glad that I don't have to wait that long.

I'm going to look for another Journal of Psychology and film. I also do want to work on that mental romantic comedy curated list of films. Of course, it would also mean to watch those movies again and which I will be this semester.

Eternal sunshine, Punch-Drunk love, Silver Linings playbook.

The heuristic mythology at the movies list is also in works so that's nice.

I do wonder if I could put together the curated list for children and Authority, the one with school of rock, kings of summer, amd what was the third?

Of course given odd to stand by me. Given nod to holes.

Boys struggling with masculinity.

My first blog proposal!

 hahaha

I finished my blog to wish that psychology today would publish it, not realizing that I would be submitting a Blog proposal. Wow, I am a little in shock that I went for it. I hope they read my intentions and know that they are good. If I don't get in one time maybe I'll just try again?

I let Jericho know because they were telling me that is why they enroll in these classes, so they can get their personal work done. I told them about how I was having a hard time getting work done and finding time, so maybe this is my class? To be able to have a Blog on psychology today? Will they accept me as a writer while I include psychology based things? Maybe my Memoir is a way of being justified as publishable? We'll see what they say.

Here it is Tuesday!

 This is fantastic! What I mean is that I can look at my blog and see I haven't worked on anything for my personal/professional writing since last week. This morning I'm planning and assessing work, I'll go home for lunch and tutor Wystan in math, then head to coffee bar for working on that EMDR article. I did get some writing done as far as the personal experiences, because I want to give examples, but I do want to shorten those down for the article.

I realize I'll have two versions of many of our articles, the one with more Memoir and the one I'm sending out to publish.

This reflective blog is truly helping me so I can see where my line of thinking is.

Finish something

 Well it's true, I'm looking again at all the things I've done. I'm really good at starting out. I'm really good at getting words down in the voice to text. I'm somewhat good of transferring those over to a file to get started. But then I realize what I need to really finish any of these articles.

Pretty much finished my EMDR at the movies, but I'm not finished. What I mean is I need to get the sources, I need to build the filmography, and I just need to send it out to somewhere like psychology today. I need to look at the psychology today article and get that thing written.

So I see that about three or four sources for these articles. I might even just pay note to how Psychology today have articles online. I'll talk about Cinema therapy, as an additional tool.

Really the EMDR in finding movies that the eyes go back and forth?

I just need to put on a little frosting on the cake. And then get this sent out.

My three things

EMDR article

Trickster article

Who I am as a lover of movies, three favorite mental rom coms

A Space for Reporting My Writing Progress

 I tried planning my latest work as a list of things in Google Docs. It was things I've completed and things I'm working on. However that didn't work well. I need to know then I am indeed working on something, and plan for that work to happen every week. I see that the semester start is showing where I won't have time to work on private things unless I really make it so, private things meaning the book which also gives me the academic status. But I want to write the book! So it has to become part of my academic workload.

What I really mean is I can come to this blog and see what I'm doing. I'll just need to remember to post every time I work on something but that won't be too much of a problem. I did this during a lot of my other writing times, as well as the Grant I had for research.

With a set, today I'm working on that night large I say that I hope to get published in the Journal of religion and film. It's about the need or desire to look for cultural hero tricksters and how they are portrayed in film. I just thought of that house screenwriters use mythology and Mythic structures as well as how they are just brought up in the natural writing process. Are we each hard-wired to desire this trickster person who is in the liminal and will fight for those who can't

 I started At the Movies with a poet in my google docs

 

I will need to watch:

FastFood Naiton

Paterson

 

 

what I've learned today:

I read through what the articles look like on journal of religion and film

I might need to work on the longer piece with the memoir, but cut the memoir before I send off?

Keep both versions, use the original and cite this appeared in a different format

I will need to be somewhere with my books to get the writing done

 

 

 

Sent my first piece out!

 I finished and sent my first Bold TIP Tip to Deborah, hoping to hear back from her.

I realize, I need to take my presentation and make the quiltwork presentation its own "blog"

Work with CTEL group

 Today, as part of the CTEL group, there were helpful things to do in classes. I will adopt some of the phrasing for my content warning--as well as the feelings wheel.

Very good stuff. I'm glad I am in the group.

Part of me feels the push to send things soon--so I plan some time to do so.

This week

This last week I returned a few more of the books I had checked out, as well as worked on my content warning statement as well as a small article for the power of the outcast based on tokopah Turner's book belonging.

Catch up

 Last week I was working on some of the smaller posts so I could feel a sense of accomplishment. Today I went to the seatel group which talked about the different types of trauma and what to do in the classroom to help.

Classroom matters

 I did a couple of hours of writing today about classroom, about not pushing students too much about their personal lives while offering resources to them. Also about sending students in groups or asking for a couple of hands.

Week off

 By the way I took the last week off because I went to awp and then I was very exhausted on Monday and tuesday.

The three zones graphics

 Today I was working on the Zone approximal growth, zone of regulation, and the window of tolerance. I'm working on the small write-up as a kind of introduction to how I see trauma informed pedagogy. I did some more voice to text tonight and should be able to wrap it up on friday.

Against Authoritarian Teaching

 As I'm going over my belonging book as I'm about to return it, it feels like a lot of things are coming together for a larger article. That the idea of belonging and authoritarianism are at odds with each other. I'm also bringing up the black Cinema class I taught with ideas of how to move forward. Like when David from K-State was total authoritarianism.

I am also writing about why TIP--but from the approach that is down-to-earth. We can go over all the statistics, but really, not everyone will get on board--just like administration says we celebrate diversity and inclusion, but we know not all of our colleagues don't feel that way. 

I worked a few hours!

Add a note I am checking out the people colors book, that this form of being in the world is not and should not be a detriment but is just another way to communicate with someone.

Bold TIP Tips

I did an hour and a half of writing today, working on the small mini pieces of what a humorously called bold tip tips and I'm enjoying it. I take each of the tic/tip components like safety, collaboration, etc

Then I elaborate on how it fits each of those components.

I'm really enjoying this.

This week so far

I had the first ctel event for trauma-informed pedagogies, and I really like it as it gives me a chance to explore how people might feel coming into the group. For example, the questions of where did this come from? How fresh is this?

I even came up with the aha moment, what if we allowed students to have exams or quizzes with an earbud in their ears? It came from when I surveyed my class asking how many study listening to music and everyone raised their hand.

I'm going to do some research about music and memory, as well as less anxiety which makes sense. Also state-based memory something Jericho shared with me.

That chewing gum or eating peppermint that you remember things better?

Also, the policy of content warning, that Jericho writing about her character putting a bike together came up with the realization that her father did that for a little time. Instead of the disengagement of something that would be traumatic, that there are coping mechanisms for someone to be able to do something as we all have our triggers and different things that could do so.

The three graphs and index cards

 I started writing two different mini articles that I want to send out soon, one about the three different graphs and the other about the power of help cards or index cards.

I'm really reflecting on how if I got ski and the self-regulation is based on childhood-based approaches for development, but they seem to apply to adults too.

Burnout

 Oh wow, I had a student in nursing who found a great article about how when discussions of burnout come up that tic is never mentioned. It's funny, because the same will happen here on campus as I'm sure across campus, that students and faculty and staff say there's just so much work to do, that the end of the semester is a burden, and that the word burnout comes up. Of course, no one's talking about the conversations about tip, and what we're asking students to do, and what we are asked to do ourselves. So I'm doing a little writing about that today.

Being a trauma informed instructor means you're going to do everything in your power to ask students to take steps in avoiding burnout, as well as not adding material to create the atmosphere for burnout.

Consent for feedback the fight of the century

 https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/heres-how-to-give-feedback-that-students-will-actually-use/2023/04

I was told about consent based feedback, that it's important to meet with students one-on-one and then ask them if it's okay that you give them feedback. You can also ask them what kind of feedback they want. This is to help with the agency transparency and overall collaboration of instructor with student.

Likewise, feedback is important to get. There's no way around it. The student who says no I can't get your feedback is basically rejecting any chance to improve their writing. And with of course the goal of Any teacher is to improve not just teach there's that conundrum.

Vulnerability of tip practitioners

 Making the connection that some of the authors of these books are open about their own childhood traumas and what they are. It's really empowering to see people speaking about it. I'm just fascinated that and in my own being vulnerable with stigmas that could come from being so open, that people describe their own autoethnography as part of their research.

I did that writing about it today.

Research on TIP from colleges

 https://barnard.edu/trauma-informed-pedagogy

good with its list of things to do, what to include in syllabus, etc.

 

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/inclusive-teaching/trauma-informed-pedagogy/

good list of daily things to do

 

https://teaching.uoregon.edu/resources/trauma-informed-pedagogy-tip

Good that it explains what TIP is NOT

this hints at the backlash that instructors are hesitant to pick up anything outside of their comfort

 

https://operations.du.edu/inclusive-teaching/content/trauma-informed-pedagogy

 

 

https://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/trauma-informed-pedagogy

 

 

https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrihWMG9q5lqwQEmR4PxQt.;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzMEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1705993863/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2feducationnorthwest.org%2fsites%2fdefault%2ffiles%2fresources%2ftrauma-informed-practices-postsecondary-508.pdf/RK=2/RS=W26PMhNu_LlqPuqJEPx5lQzprFo-

great deesculation ideas

https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2020/06/03/seven-recommendations-helping-students-thrive-times-trauma

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/12/10/368

https://edspace.american.edu/ctrl/traumainformedpedagogy/#toggle-id-1

EXCELLENT suggestions of what to do in the classroom

 

Reading and reflecting today

As I have books checked out through ILL, I wasnted to list them here--with the best intent of keeping track of what is read and what needs attention.

I need to note, Relationship, responsibility, and regulation : trauma-invested practices for fostering resilient learners seems the best in terms of detriment-free thinking. 

 

Belonging : a relationship-based approach for trauma-informed education

Phillips, Sian; Melim, Deni; Hughes, Daniel

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2020]

 

 

Belonging : remembering ourselves home

 

Turner, Toko-pa

Salt Spring Island, British Columbia : Her Own Room Press, [2017]

 

 

Belonging : the science of creating connection and bridging divides

 

Cohen, Geoffrey L

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]

 

 

 

 

Relationship, responsibility, and regulation : trauma-invested practices for fostering resilient learners

 

Souers, Kristin; Hall, Peter A

Alexandria, Va. : ASCD, [2019]

 

 

 

Developing trauma informed teachers : creating classrooms that foster equity, resiliency, and asset-based approaches : reflections on curricula and program implementation

 

Bernhardt, Philip E; Schepers, Ofelia Castro; Brennan, Megan

Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2022]

 

 

 

Trauma-sensitive instruction : creating a safe and predictable classroom environment

 

Eller, John; Hierck, Tom

Bloomington, IN : Solution Tree Press, 2021.

 

 

 

Lessons from the pandemic : trauma-informed approaches to college, crisis, change

 

Carello, Janice; Thompson, Phyllis

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

 

 

 

Cover image for CULTIVATING TRAUMA-INFORMED PRACTICE IN STUDENT AFFAIRS.

CULTIVATING TRAUMA-INFORMED PRACTICE IN STUDENT AFFAIRS.

 

SHALKA, TRICIA R

[S.l.] : STYLUS PUBLISHING, 2023.

 

 

Trauma-responsive pedagogy : teaching for healing and transformation

 

Casimir, Arlène Elizabeth; Baker, Courtney N

Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [2023]

 

 

Trauma-informed pedagogies : a guide for responding to crisis and inequality in higher education

 

Thompson, Phyllis; Carello, Janice

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

 

Trauma-informed pedagogy in higher education : a faculty guide for teaching and learning

 

Stromberg, Ernest

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

Week One of TIP Grant

It was half a week has Tuesday was a snow day, but going to see Amri B Johnson talk on Wednesday night was really amazing.

It made me think about how two of the teachers he mentioned that help shaped his life were teachers that were not supportive of me. They were toxic. But to me.

The idea of belonging seems to play a key role with trauma-informed pedagogy.

When you focus on belonging, you can focus on all of the different aspects. Again the quilt work.

The wonderful breakthrough I made too at the start was while reading the book by Jeffrey L Cohen, belonging the science of creating connection and bridging divides. Dr Cohen is a leading social psychologist as well as connects with so many people doing the work on the front lines. I realized that with all of the storytelling, my writing will need to take on this the same storytelling. I realize as he's well connected, he's speaking from his own experiences. My writing will need to be auto-ethnography, so I should research a little more about that.

I picked up all of my books from the library and Andrea thought it looked really interesting.

But I still do need to make be mindful that I am writing about trauma informed pedagogy.

The interesting conversation that also came up was about these catchphrase words, and that people are really resistant when these catchphrase words come up. Even the words diversity and inclusion somehow triggers certain people.

The quilt work approach that I am taking with my courses matches the quilt work approach of our classrooms, that we want everyone to feel like they belong.

Some of the work I did this week included reading the belonging book, doing research with articles, and thinking about those articles against trauma-informed. I know that my autoethnography writing will include how I slipped into trauma informed pedagogy from trauma-informed care, based on being brought up by nurses.