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Justice as Trauma 2025: Session Recordings Organized Alphabetically for Trauma-Informed Learning

Becoming Whole: The Journey of Healing Collective Trauma Closing Keynote
Nkem Ndefo
Justice as Trauma 2025 Day 3, Monday, March 19

In this compelling keynote, we will explore how trauma cascades through individuals, communities, and societies, and examine why conventional approaches to healing often fall short. Moving beyond theory, we will unpack a practical framework for trauma recovery that begins with stabilization and progresses through meaningful confrontation with difficult truths and experiences. Learn how this careful progression enables us to transform wounds into wisdom, building the capacity to feel deeply while maintaining connection to ourselves and each other. This session illuminates a path of individual and collective trauma healing, offering insight into how we might create systems and communities rooted in justice and flourishing in joy. 

Fireside Chat on The Wounds of Justice, Resilience, Racialized Trauma & Collective Healing
Myrna McCallum & Resmaa Menakem
Justice as Trauma 2025 Day 1, Monday, March 17

Justice as Trauma 2025 opened with The Fireside Chat on The Wounds of Justice, Resilience, Racialized Trauma & Collective Healing; an important discussion between Myrna McCallum and Resmaa Menakem. Their meaningful dialogue covered resilience, the deep impact in the body that unatended racialized trauma has, and the true and multiple meanings of collective healing.

Justice Transformed: Embedding Empathy & Trauma Awareness in Law, Education and Advocacy
Amanda Morgan, Karen Campbell & Judy Jaunzems
Justice as Trauma 2025 Day 1, Tuesday, March 17

This panel explores how integrating empathy and trauma awareness into law, education, and advocacy can create more just, human-centred systems. Amanda will talk about her experiences leading trauma-informed and First Nations-led solutions and research. Judy will explore how trauma-informed principles can be applied using The Human Curriculum framework, emphasizing self-awareness, therapeutic leadership, and human-centered approaches to justice and healing. Karen will explore the benefits of trauma-informed legal writing, offering best practices to enhance advocacy, align with ethical obligations, and support justice reform. Through interactive discussion, participants will gain insight and tools for incorporating trauma-informed principles into their professional and personal practices.  

Leaning in: Restorative Justice Models and Conflict Resolution
Carey Majid, Catherine Kelly & Maria Dussan
Justice as Trauma 2025 Day 1, Tuesday, March 17

The Newfoundland and Labrador Human Rights Commission is using restorative principles and trauma-informed practice to reimagine the human rights complaint process. The last and hardest piece is the adjudication and decision-making process as set out in the Human Rights Act. In an adversarial system that focuses on winning and losing - is this even possible? Join Carey, Catherine, and Maria to discuss how they have tried to adopt lessons learned from Community Justice Connect (a restorative justice and conflict resolution service) to the human rights adjudication and decision-making process. They will talk about how the Commission developed new rules of procedure; how we engage parties as they prepare for a hearing after many institutional delays; how evidence and witnesses are handled; and how we communicate decisions to parties, affected communities, and the public.   

The Resilience Toolkit: Foundations for Trauma Healing & Liberatory Change
Nkem Ndefo
Justice as Trauma 2025 Day 3, Monday, March 19

Experience this unique approach to resilience building that fosters the flexible strength and increased capacity needed to overcome adversity, heal, and change systems of oppression and inequity into places where we thrive. Through focused lecture, personal reflection, and experiential practice, we will decode the language of the body by identifying stress and trauma responses in an intersectional and ecologically sensitive framework. Together we will practice real-time regulation tools that harness the body’s innate biology to settle overactive and detrimental responses—reclaiming energy, creative flexibility, and connection to ourselves, one another, and our shared liberation. 

The Power of Storytelling in Decolonizing Justice & Healing: Indigenous Women’s Perspectives
Myrna McCallum, Angela Sterritt, Charmaine Parenteau, Amanda Morgan & Jamie-Lee Tuuta
Justice as Trauma 2025 Day 2, Tuesday, March 18

Speakers Myrna McCallum, Angela Sterritt, Charmaine Parenteau, Amanda Morgan & Jamie-Lee Tuuta discuss the power and impact of storytelling as a vital tool for healing, reclaiming identity, and advocating for justice.

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Creating Trauma-Informed Systems Change Across Public Services
Dr. Caroline Bruce
Justice as Trauma 2025 Day 2, Monday, March 18

 The impact of trauma and adversity on inequalities and access to basic life chances like health, education, housing and employment (as well as justice) are only now being fully realized and acknowledged. But adversity is not destiny, and research evidence is building around the role that trauma informed systems should play in redressing the balance. In 2017, Scotland pledged to become a trauma-informed nation.

In this talk, Dr Bruce will share some of the practical and leadership lessons learned with the National Trauma Transformation Programme towards creating trauma-informed public services. She will introduce some of the practical tools* developed from the experience of the National Trauma Transformation Programme in Scotland to offer some practical responses to common questions such as: What does “trauma informed” justice actually look like in practice? What steps do we take to get there? How do we know when we’ve got there? 

Holding Space for Humanity, Humility and Healing in the Legal Profession
Myrna McCallum
Justice as Trauma 2025 Day 2, Tuesday, March 18

In her evening keynote Myrna advocates for a relational, compassionate approach that nurtures trust, supports healing, and challenges the colonial legacy within the justice system. This keynote highlights how holding space with empathy and humility can transform legal practice into a more just and healing profession.

 In this workshop, Robert will discuss the importance of people working in the legal and helping professions having a handle on their own trauma injuries. He will discuss the danger to our clients when our trauma is not well managed and the likelihood of incurring deeper injuries as well. The value of therapy will be discussed, but Robert will also give a layperson's guide to understanding, managing, and healing their own trauma. 

The Newfoundland and Labrador Human Rights Commission is applying restorative and trauma-informed approaches to improve the human rights complaint process, especially in the challenging area of adjudication. Join Carey, Catherine, and Maria as they share how lessons from Community Justice Connect have influenced new procedures, party engagement, evidence handling, and decision communication within the Commission.

Integrating Alternative Justice Approaches When Working with Sexual Harm
Eleanor Danks
Justice as Trauma 2025 Day 1, Tuesday, March 17

Existing and working within punitive systems - as someone who desires to see more regenerative and healing ways of dealing with harm - can not only feel frustrating, but can bring about vicarious trauma and burnout. How do we begin to move towards the systems we want to see in the future when it feels like we are bound by the systems we have right now? How can we create opportunities for healing and accountability? 
Looking specifically at the realm of sexual harm, this workshop aims to empower you to claim your individual, relational, organizational, and collective realms of influence, in order to integrate principles of restorative and transformative justice into your work.

Mental Health, Cognitive Defects, Trauma and Human Rights: A Prison Ombuds’ Perspective
Dr Ivan Zinger
Justice as Trauma 2025 Day 3, Wednesday, March 19

Dr. Ivan Zinger, Correctional Investigator of Canada, will provide an overview of the role and mandate of his Office, focusing on its commitment to promoting human rights within federal corrections. He will offer a detailed analysis of the key characteristics of the federal prison population, emphasizing the significant prevalence of mental health issues, cognitive deficits, and trauma among prisoners. Dr. Zinger will also address the challenges faced by Correctional Service Canada, the agency subject to his Office's independent oversight, in meeting its human rights obligations while managing these complex needs within the correctional system. 

In this panel, we will explore some of the many ways that people are responding to justice as trauma.  

Together, we will examine how trauma-informed approaches can reshape justice systems and ourselves, shifting to an emphasis on compassion, resilience, and long-term community well-being. This session will be hosted by Myrna McCallum. Looking specifically at the realm of sexual harm, this workshop aims to empower you to claim your individual, relational, organizational, and collective realms of influence, in order to integrate principles of restorative and transformative justice into your work.

Post-Traumatic Growth: The Gift of Our Injuries
Robert Wright
Justice as Trauma 2025 Day 1, Monday, March 17

In this keynote, Robert will describe the concept of post traumatic growth and will give participants an introduction to the ways growth from trauma can be encouraged.