Webinar: Trauma informed Classroom
Presenters: Rod Begbie & Lucia Prinzi
Date: Monday, 11th August 2025
Time: 5:30 pm QLD, NSW, ACT, VIC, TAS (AEST);
5:00 pm NT, SA (ACST);
3:30 pm Perth WA (AWST)
Trauma informed Classroom
It is easy to see the trauma-informed classroom as one where the teacher has learnt some strategies for managing students who are dysregulated because of a trauma response. In reality, a genuine trauma informed lens can and should impact everything about the way teachers prepare for and conduct classes – including the way they understand their role and identity as teachers. Ideally, your whole educational institute should be trauma-informed – being trauma safe should shape all your policies and procedures.
We believe that a trauma-informed classroom is one in which the students become the heroes of the own story of healing from trauma and thriving, and where the teacher curates a space where that is possible by being a safe, authentic and connected presence and creating consistent and predictable rhythms for the class – hearing and validating their students, and feeding the part of them that believes that the world is safe and predictable.
In this session, with this kind of transformation in mind, we will talk about how trauma presents in the classroom and how we can make the classroom a genuinely safe place for students and teacher, a place where healing and thriving is possible.
We will finish our session with a discussion of the kind of self-care required to do this work sustainably.
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Rod Begbie, LN Teacher
B/Arts, M/Theatre Studies, Dip Ed (Secondary) English/Drama, Cert IV Workplace Training and Assessment, Clinical Pastoral Education (Level 1)
Rod has worked for over three decades in public and private sector adult education both in Australia and overseas. Initially training as a Secondary English and Drama teacher, Rod pivoted early in his career to teaching English to International Students in TAFE and University language schools both in Australia and overseas. More recently he has moved into the LN Support area at Melbourne Polytechnic and is loving this opportunity to engage with a wider range of students and departments.
Rod also works in pastoral care and leadership coaching and is exploring what a trauma-informed lens looks like in both these spaces.
Lucia Prinzi
Lucia Prinzi has dedicated over 20 years to the non-profit sector, focusing on trauma-informed practice principles and concepts. Her passion lies in raising awareness and responding to domestic and family violence. Lucia has held executive board positions at both Safe and Equal and the InTouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence. Throughout her career, she has taken on various practice, leadership, and policy roles.
Currently, Lucia is sharing her extensive knowledge by educating students studying for the Diploma of Community Services at Melbourne Polytechnic. She firmly believes that good practice leads to safe responses, and she is committed to fostering this belief in the next generation of community service professionals.
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