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A free virtual event for educators, school leaders, and advocates who give a care
Learn trauma-informed practices from 17+ lived-experience experts to create classrooms and communities rooted in felt-safety, connection, and co-regulation — without losing yourself in the process.
You care deeply...and it's heavy.
If you’re the kind of educator, school leader, or helping professional who shows up for students while carrying more than most people see, you’ve probably felt the strain: burnout, behavior concerns, grief, family stress, constant change, and the pressure to “keep going” even when your body is asking for support.
What if trauma-informed education could be sustainable — not just well-intended?
What if creating safety, connection, and co-regulation for students didn’t require you to lose yourself in the process?
Welcome to the TraumaWise Education Summit
This is not another professional development experience asking educators to do more with less.
It’s a capacity-building space for educators, school leaders, support staff, caregivers, advocates, and youth-serving professionals who want practical trauma-informed support that can hold up in real classrooms, real relationships, and real communities.
Together, we’ll explore how to prepare the helper, repair felt-safety, honor story and connection, practice co-regulation, and implement change at the speed of trust and capacity — without losing ourselves in the process.
MAYBE RIGHT NOW YOU FEEL...
Stretched thin from trying to support students, families, colleagues, and yourself
Tired of good intentions that don’t stick when systems are overwhelmed and change feels hard to sustain
Unsure what safety really looks like when behavior, grief, trauma, or broken trust enters the room
Heavy with what others are carrying and wondering how to stay present without losing yourself
There has to be a better way!
What if you could feel...
Ready to build sustainable change through community, small rhythms, and trust-based implementation
Supported in connection without over-carrying honoring story, truth, grief, and boundaries
More equipped to create felt-safety through predictability, dignity, choice, and the environment around you
Clearer about your next right step with tools that honor real capacity
This is what trauma-wise education can feel like — steady, human, and sustainable.
What You’ll Experience
- Practical Tools for Trauma-Wise Education — Strategies and reflection tools to support classrooms and communities rooted in felt-safety, connection, and co-regulation.
- Shared Language + Lived Wisdom — No buzzwords. Just grounded frameworks that work in real classrooms, real conversations, and real human constraints.
- A Brave, Gentle Learning Space — You’re not doing this alone. This summit is designed as a trauma-wise community of practice where your questions, capacity, and lived experience are welcomed without judgment.
- An Integration Point — This isn’t just theory. It’s preparation for sustainable practice — so trauma-informed education can become steady, humane, and possible to carry forward.
Who It's For
This is for you if you're...
- An educator, school leader, or support professional feeling stretched thin but still deeply committed to students
- A helper, caregiver, advocate, or youth-serving professional navigating grief, behavior concerns, trauma, burnout, and too much urgency
- A cycle-breaker or community-builder who wants trauma-informed practices that are compassionate, practical, and actually usable
- A values-driven educator or leader seeking more than checkbox training — you want learning communities rooted in dignity, belonging, repair, and sustainable change
Meet Your Host
Renae M. Dupuis • Founder and CEO of TraumaWise
Renae M. Dupuis, M.Div., is an influential advocate and educator dedicated to trauma-informed care. With over two decades of experience in caring for trauma-impacted youth, Renae has emerged as a prominent figure in trauma healing and resilience-building.
Renae's profound dedication to equipping individuals, organizations, and communities with trauma-informed practices has garnered recognition and respect in the field. Her involvement in creating trauma-informed spaces and places through TraumaWise showcases her commitment to empowering individuals to navigate their healing journey with compassion and resilience.
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What to Expect at the TraumaWise Education Summit
Where and When
The 2026 TraumaWise Education Summit will run from July 13-17 2026, featuring a variety of presentations.
All Summit Presentations will be available starting Monday, July 13, 2026 at 10am (PDT)
Each day, we'll feature a selection of sessions under one of our daily themes, and you can participate in our daily chat in the TraumaWise Online Community.
This event is entirely virtual, so you can attend from anywhere in the world with internet access.
Expert Sessions
Attend presentations from our lineup of over 17 speakers with trainings on scaffolding, connection, emotional regulation, self-care, burnout, resilience, implementation, and more!
Your free ticket includes 5 days of access to each presentation during the week of the summit.
Private Summit Community
Join our Education Summit Community of community members like you who are already hanging out and gaining practical tools for increasing capacity and sustainability! This is where you’ll be able to connect with the speakers and other attendees before and during the event!
Chances to Win
You’ll also have a chance to win prizes by showing up and participating throughout the summit. Just keep track of your BINGO Card and come hang out with us in the Education Summit Community for chances to win prizes, including books, co-working sessions, courses, and more!
Upgrade for a VIP Experience
We invite you to upgrade to one of the TraumaWise ToolKits which include ongoing access to the presentations after the summit wraps up, premium bonuses from our speakers, and more!
ALSO.....
You will receive a Summit Participant Guide, access to two Networking Sessions, and participation in a live Speaker Panel as part of the Summit Welcome Care Package! All of these resources would usually cost you over $2,100, but you get them FREE with your ticket.
What Makes This Event Unique
You don’t need another education training telling you to “build resilience,” “manage behavior,” or “practice self-care” — while ignoring the reality that many educators are working inside systems shaped by urgency, overload, grief, unmet needs, and quiet self-abandonment.
Good news — this is not that.
The TraumaWise Education Summit was created for educators, school leaders, support professionals, advocates, and helpers who give a care — and who feel the weight of that care in their bodies, their classrooms, their relationships, and the systems they’re trying to change.
Instead of offering quick fixes that fall apart in the middle of real school days, this summit meets you with:
This summit isn’t about doing more.
It’s about doing it differently — and not doing it alone.
Meet the Speakers
Check out the incredible lineup of lived-experience experts you’ll learn from at the TraumaWise Education Summit!
ACE Educator
E'Toyare McDonald-Williams
Speaker, Author & Educator Well-Being Consultant
Patty McLain, M.Ed.
Certified Grief Educator
Heidi Dunstan
Speaker and Bestselling Author
Cheryl L. Wright
Early Childhood Expert & Behaviour Support Practitioner
Elisa Rider
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Founder, BoundlessHer
Cerise Woodard, RN, SANE-A
Trauma-Informed Transformational Life Coach for Women
Dr. Heather Hughes, DNP, MS, RN, NEA-BC
Sensory-friendly Events Specialist/ Storyteller/ Advocate/Writer
Thomas R. Wilson
Neuroaffirming Somatic Clinical Counsellor
Katie Connolly
Resilience Guide, Speaker & Strategic Advisor
Rick Cram
Founder & Steward of Vision
Meghann Dawson
RTT Clinical Hypnotherapist/ Trauma Recovery Coach
Brooke Deanne
Criminologist and Cybersecurity Strategist
Dawn McCarty
IEP Advocate, Educational Therapist, Inclusive Ministry Consultant
Emily Remsen
Certified Grief Educator
Maria Belanic
Founder and CEO of TraumaWise
Renae M. Dupuis
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HAVE QUESTIONS? WE’VE GOT ANSWERS
If you care about creating safer, more connected learning environments — and you’re looking for trauma-informed practices that can actually be sustained — this summit was created with you in mind.
We’ll be speaking especially to educators, school leaders, support staff, caregivers, advocates, and youth-serving professionals who are holding student needs, family stress, grief, behavior concerns, burnout, and system pressure while still wanting to be part of healing and prevention.
You don’t need to be an expert in trauma-informed care to attend. This summit is a welcoming place to begin, deepen, or reconnect with practices rooted in Felt-Safety, Connection, and Co-Regulation — without needing to carry it all alone.
The 2026 Education Summit runs from July 13-17, 2026. You’ll also be able to join our Education Summit Community as soon as you register, so you can join in on the fun right away!
That’s okay. This summit was designed with real human capacity in mind.
The presentations will be available virtually, and you’ll be able to engage at a pace that works for your life, schedule, and nervous system. You do not have to attend everything live, keep up perfectly, or “catch up” in a way that creates more pressure.
Come for what supports you. Return when you can. Let enough be enough.
There will also be an optional TraumaWise Toolkit upgrade if you’d like extended access to the presentations, audio, transcripts, and additional resources.
All presentation recordings will be available starting July 13, 2026 and through July 17, 2026. If you need more time, you can always upgrade your ticket to the TraumaWise ToolKit after registering, which will give you extended access to the presentations along with premium bonuses from our speakers and more!
To avoid tech glitches, give you the best possible experience, and keep things easy for the speakers, most of the presentations are pre-recorded and will be released at a scheduled time during the summit. However, the speakers will be hanging out in our Education Summit Community with dedicated threads where you can connect with them and ask your questions! There will also be opportunities to join us for bonus live events throughout the week.
No. When you register, you’ll be added to the TraumaWise email list so we can send you updates for the event and links to each day’s presentations. After the summit is over, you’ll continue to hear from us, but you can unsubscribe at any time.
Each of the speakers will have free resources available that you can access by providing an email address, but the speakers will not get your email address unless you choose to give it to them specifically. That way, you only hear from the people you really love and don't have to worry about getting added to 15 email lists that you're not interested in.
You can learn more in our Privacy policy.Yes. All presentations have closed captioning available, and we are creating transcriptions of each presentation for all registrants. An extended workbook with additional notes is also available with our upgrade options that you’ll see after registering for the event.
Please reach out if there’s anything we can do to ensure you’re able to enjoy this event.
If you still have questions, we encourage you to go ahead and sign up. Your questions will likely be answered during the event or in the Education Summit Community, which you’ll be able to join right away after grabbing your free ticket.
However, if you need to ask us a question before registering, feel free to send us an email at renae@traumawise.com
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