Welcome 

We are honored to invite you to our second annual Healing-Centered Education Summit. After sitting with the afterglow of our last summit, where we explored pedagogies for collective recovery, we now return to hold space for play and slow work. We hope to create a generative container for deep practice and a robust community through fireside chats, panel discussions, healing modalities that enable slowing down and live design-and-play sessions. Our intention is to continue to seed the field of healing-centered education–a paradigm encompassing restorative justice, social-emotional learning, mindfulness, trauma-sensitive teaching, decolonizing education and much more. Our long-term mission is to transform K-12 and adult education by activating a generative social field that will inspire new scholarship, pedagogies, and communities of practice.

Mission & Vision

As we continue to navigate a lingering pandemic and wrestle with multiple crises in our communities, this year’s summit is a call to slow down. Our vision for this gathering is to integrate insights from the slow work movement, the timely emergence of healing-centered education and the benefits of engaging in a sense of playfulness. Our mission for this summit is to hold space to nurture our collective flourishing by curating conversations and experiences that explore healing-centered theories, practices and modalities. 

Coming from a range of backgrounds–education, psychology, public health, neuroscience, philanthropy, indigenous science and the healing arts–our speakers will explore how we integrate slow work and play in our professional and personal lives. With a focus on key approaches–healing justice, social-emotional learning (SEL), mindfulness, contemplative education, and trauma-informed care–our goal is to nurture a community of curious teachers and learners who want to engage with healing-centered approaches to education.