Tag: healing

  • 2024 Essence of Learning Holy Land Teacher Training Results

    2024 Essence of Learning Holy Land Teacher Training Results

    We are thrilled to announce the results of our 2024 trauma-informed teacher training in the Holy Land!

  • Why Trauma-Affected Children Fail in Traditional Schools

    Why Trauma-Affected Children Fail in Traditional Schools

    “He seems lazy. He can’t motivate himself to do his work or remember anything.” “She has angry outbursts in class and screams at teachers and students.” “She always seems to have a stomach ache.” Trauma and toxic stress exposure can wreak havoc in the classroom. 

  • What is Trauma-Informed Education?

    When war breaks out, children are the least responsible- but suffer the greatest consequences.

  • Fleeing the Taliban

    Mukhtar, a former Afghani interpreter to the U.S. State Department On April 23rd, I received a text message from an old friend, Mukhtar*, my interpreter in Afghanistan. I had stayed in contact with Mukhtar when I left the country in 2014 after five years with the State Department. During my time in Afghanistan, Mukhtar saved…

  • Midyear Update: Abrahamic Faith Student Leadership Team 

    Last summer, reGeneration proudly announced the launch of its Abrahamic Faith Student Leadership Team, which brings Jewish, Christian, and Muslim students together from three Los Angeles area Abrahamic faith schools. Learn more about how the program nurtures emerging student peace leaders in Los Angeles here. Since our original announcement, the Abrahamic Faith Student Leadership Team…

  • President’s Corner: Connecting the Dots

    President’s Corner: Connecting the Dots

    Dear Friends of reGeneration, Caring parents, regardless of religion, ethnicity, or economic-level, love their children and yearn to see them flourish.  Parents living in regions of conflict or poverty want their children to be well-educated and protected from the traumatic stresses in their environment. 

  • President’s Corner: We CAN Change the Trajectory

    President’s Corner: We CAN Change the Trajectory

    Dear Friends of reGeneration, When I helped launch reGeneration Education 14 years ago, I was inspired by two critically important understandings. 

  • reGeneration Partners with first Waldorf School in West Bank

    reGeneration Partners with first Waldorf School in West Bank

    reGeneration Education is excited to announce its newest partner in the Middle East! Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.’s Beloved Community and commitment to nonviolence, House of Hope is an Arabic-language, trauma-informed elementary school in the West Bank village of Al Eizariya. It is also the only emerging Waldorf school in the West Bank.