Rekindle creativity.
Learn about trauma and resilience.
Attend to needs.
Recolored photo. Original photo: Trina Trotter Nussbaum
Services
K. Mansfield, 2019
Trauma & resilience education
A holistic approach to trauma and resilience training can help individuals, teams, and organizations identify and address needs.
K. Mansfield, 2019
Rekindling creativity
Metabolize overwhelm and amplify a sense of possibility through embodied practice and expressive arts, in formats ranging from hourly sessions to a 5-day intensive experience.
K. Mansfield, 2019
Practical accompaniment
Organizations and communities benefit from facilitation, analysis, and process design. Individuals nourish professional and personal development.
Learn. Move. Rekindle. Metabolize. Create.
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Foundations of trauma and resilience
Essential information related to the origins and impacts of trauma responses, framed by mindfulness and movement practices to center, ground, and refresh.
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Fabulous full-bodied femmes - fold, flex, and flow
Every body benefits from movement (and stillness). I’m a 20+ year participant (and trained teacher) in various modalities of healing-centered movement. I’m full-bodied. Many movement practice spaces (dance, yoga, etc.) center bodies that are called “thin” or “athletic,” so I thought it would be fun to offer something with guidance that centers a fleshier reality.
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Mavens in middle age: Move and make
Renew your movement and creative energies. Our middle aged bodies are in a new stage of life reality. This series invites us to acknowledge our pain, harness our power, and move with wisdom and love.
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Pair up! Friend/partner practice
Friends and I have been experimenting with partner yoga practice and thought you might want to join us. This is NOT a formal yoga class, but it is a structured practice designed to be playful, connective, and restorative.
Food for thought
Listen (podcasts)
The Kroc Cast, “Resilience in the Face of a Global Pandemic” (Jul2020)
Bee Now Podcast/ host Arya Salehi, “Reclaim your creative self” (Apr2020)
Peacebuilder Podcast, "Refriending My Body" (Oct2019)
Consider (frameworks)
Wheel of strategic peacebuilding pathways. 2010. With J.P. Lederach.
Applying trauma sensitivity. 2023.
Trauma responsiveness assessment resource. 2024.
Read (publications)
In the “what-to-do” time: Practicing liberation amid harm and healing, 2024. In Separata da Revista Judiciária do Paraná #32. ISSN: 2316-4212. Qualis B4. Edição temática “Justiça Restaurativa,” pp. 28-36.
Body matters: Arts-based, embodied leadership development for resisting violence and injustice, 2024. In Women embodied leaders: Peacebuilding, protest, and professions (Thompson & Topuzova, Eds.), Emerald. With K. Ornelas.
How do we recognize wholeness? Jul 2022. Mennonite Church USA blog.
Blowing in the wind? Or tangible in our flesh and bones? Sep 2021. In Peace Journal PlanP (Korean/English).
Taking play seriously: Creative processing of trauma through expressive arts, 2020. In Healing and peacebuilding after war: Transforming trauma in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Funk, Good & Berry, Eds.). Routledge.
Why are we talking about trauma? 2019. EMU Peacebuilder blog.
What does it mean to be trauma-informed and resilience-oriented? 2019. EMU Peacebuilder blog.
Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience programme: experiential education towards resilience and trauma informed people and practice, 2017. Intervention, 15, No. 3, pp. 264-277.
Supporting creative, whole peacebuilders: An apprenticeship program, 2016. In Faith and practice in conflict resolution (Rachel Goldberg, Ed.), Lynne Rienner Publishers. With J.P. Lederach et al.
Bridges towards truth: Storytelling in conflict transformation in Kenya. 2013. Mercy Corps Kenya. With A.M. Ouma.
The evaluation puzzle: simple and complex. MCC Peace Office Newsletter, 42, No. 4, Oct-Dec 2012.
Listening to the experiences of the long-term displaced. Forced Migration Review 33, Sep 2009. With D. Brown. (Español)
Photo: Katie Mansfield, 2024 (Caterpillar in my garden)