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In this season finale, hosts Bridgette Stumpf and Lindsey Silverberg are joined by Executive Assistant Christina Hadad to reflect on Season Three's exploration of trauma-informed storytelling as a resilience tool. They discuss key insights from conversations with guests including Sandy Hook teacher Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis, Columbine survivor Missy Mendo, and trauma-informed architect Todd Medd. Recurring themes emerge: the power of connection as an antidote to trauma, finding purpose through helping others, and the importance of creating moments of joy amid suffering. The hosts preview Season Four, where they will explore neuroscience and emerging trauma treatment modalities while emphasizing how ethical storytelling builds resilience and creates trauma-responsive communities.Connect and Learn More☑️ Bridgette Stumpf | LinkedIn☑️ Lindsey Silverberg | LinkedIn ☑️ Volare | LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook☑️ Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Brought to you by Volare, TraumaTies: Untangling Societal Harm & Healing After Crime is a podcast that creates space and conversations to dissect the structural and systemic knots that keep us from addressing trauma.Rooted in a belief that survivors of crime deserve respect for their dignity in the aftermath of victimization, Volare seeks to empower survivors by informing them of all of the options available and working to transform existing response systems to be more inclusive of the diverse needs that survivors often have after crime.Volare also provides free, holistic, and comprehensive advocacy, therapeutic, and legal services to survivors of all crime types. Visit our website to learn more about how to access our trauma-informed education training and how to partner with us to expand survivor-defined justice.
December 14, 2012, will always be part of Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis. But, in the years since that tragic day, she's refused to let it define her. And she's worked relentlessly to take back control. A teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, Kaitlin saved her first-grade students from a mass shooter. She is now an advocate, author, and storyteller who shares her journey with audiences around the globe. In this visit with hosts Bridgette Stumpf Lindsey Silverberg, Kaitlin discusses her mission of eradicating hate and fostering connections. “Perspective is everything,” she says. “For me, choosing hope is that reminder – even on your hardest, darkest, lowest of days, you can always choose hope.”Click here for Kaitlin's book, “Choosing Hope: How I Moved Forward from Life's Darkest Hour,” and here to learn about her nonprofit, Classes 4 Classes.Connect and Learn More☑️ Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis | LinkedIn ☑️ Bridgette Stumpf | LinkedIn☑️ Lindsey Silverberg | LinkedIn ☑️ Volare | LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook☑️ Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Brought to you by Volare, TraumaTies: Untangling Societal Harm & Healing After Crime is a podcast that creates space and conversations to dissect the structural and systemic knots that keep us from addressing trauma.Rooted in a belief that survivors of crime deserve respect for their dignity in the aftermath of victimization, Volare seeks to empower survivors by informing them of all of the options available and working to transform existing response systems to be more inclusive of the diverse...
Hosts Bridgette Stumpf and Lindsey Silverberg welcome listeners to the third season of “TraumaTies” by introducing the sponsoring organization's new name: Volare. The third season will focus on the power of storytelling to reshape trauma narratives. To help the hosts tell that story, they have a powerful roster of guests. These will include, among others, Kathy Kleiner Rubin, who survived an attack by serial killer Ted Bundy in 1978; Broadway actor Wade McCollum, recently in “Water for Elephants,” who will discuss bringing trauma stories to life; and Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis, who saved her first-grade class at Sandy Hook Elementary School during the mass shooting in 2012. As Bridgette explains, this season will invite listeners to learn about resiliency through storytelling and to “acknowledge and recognize where trauma shows up in our everyday lives.”Connect and Learn More☑️ Bridgette Stumpf | LinkedIn☑️ Lindsey Silverberg | LinkedIn ☑️ Volare | LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook☑️ Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Brought to you by Volare, TraumaTies: Untangling Societal Harm & Healing After Crime is a podcast that creates space and conversations to dissect the structural and systemic knots that keep us from addressing trauma.Rooted in a belief that survivors of crime deserve respect for their dignity in the aftermath of victimization, Volare seeks to empower survivors by informing them of all of the options available and working to transform existing response systems to be more inclusive of the diverse needs that survivors often have after crime.Volare also provides free, holistic, and comprehensive advocacy, therapeutic, and legal services to survivors of all crime types. Visit our website to learn more about how to access our trauma-informed education training and how to partner with us to expand survivor-defined justice.
“The very first thing I thought when I heard the first shot wasn't why, but it was, "I can't believe the Columbine is happening here.”In the blink of an eye, an ordinary day can turn into horror. On Dec. 14, 2012, Sandy Hook Elementary School teacher Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis was with her class when she heard the unmistakable sounds of gunshots. Without hesitation, she crammed herself and her students into a small bathroom -- and saved 16 lives in what's now known as the deadliest elementary school shooting in U.S. history. Traumatized by the events, Kaitlin was a shell of her former self. But she decided to take her power back, starting with letting go of her “whys?” Today, she's moving forward, not moving on -- and choosing hope as she shares her story to inspire others to do the same.Content warning: This episode contains talk of gun violence. Hosts: Camille TuuttiSharon TigerAmanda Ziadeh Guest: Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis of Classes 4 ClassesExpert: Dr. Akua K. BoatengEditor:Tessa HallBehind the Scenes: Lisa AbeytaMusic: “Incoming” by Jeffrey C. Mund "Arms of Gold" by Tape Machines
In this episode, I talk with a first-grade teacher who saved the lives of her fifteen students during the attack at Sandy Hook Elementary on December 14, 2012. Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis is now an author of the book Choosing Hope and the Founder & Executive Director of Classes 4 Classes, Inc. In the attack, twenty 6 and 7-year-olds and six staff members were murdered. Kaitlin shares her story from that day as well as how she has decided to push through the trauma and grief to create a program that empowers students and teachers around the country.Kaitlin attended UCONN and was accepted to the NEAG School of Education, where she completed her Masters of Education with honors in 2006. She was a member of Order of Omega honor society, The Historical honor society and the NEAG honor society, and was named a New England Scholar in 2005. She taught at Sandy Hook Elementary for several years before leaving to start Classes 4 Classes, Inc. In addition to her leadership role at Classes 4 Classes, Inc., Kaitlin teaches the Level III active shooter prevention course, The Power of Choice, for ONE Training.Classes 4 Classes, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to teach children the power of kindness and compassion through their ability to create positive change for others. The platform provided by our website actively engages students in learning a social curriculum through the exchange of gifts with other K-8 classrooms, which fulfill a need or educational objective. These gifts are crowd-funded by visitors and donors to our site. The gift is given to the teacher and the students in the receiving classroom only once the project goal is reached, and the receiving classroom has started their own project to “pay it 4ward” to another classroom.Learn more about Kaitlin and her many accolades, here: https://kaitlinroigdebellis.org/about/Learn more about Classes 4 Classes, Inc. here: http://www.classes4classes.org/Learn more about ONE Training here: www.trainingone.org.Purchase Kaitlin's book, Choosing Hope, here.
When a gunman opened fire inside the friendly, peaceful Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14th of 2012, lives were changed forever. First-grade teacher Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis, whose classroom was only a few feet from where the attack began, immediately sprang to action by hiding her 14 students in a 3x4 foot bathroom and keeping them quiet. Although she and her students survived, others did not, and the tragedy left the community frozen with dismay and unanswerable questions. In an effort to overcome the darkness and chaos, Kaitlin created an organization to promote kindness in the classroom and wrote a novel, Choosing Hope, to guide others who are suffering through hardship to find their light, one day at a time. From her heroic actions as a teacher, philanthropist, writer and speaker, Kaitlin was chosen as a 2013 Glamour Woman of the Year. Join us every other week on “Women's Wealth: The Middle Way,” a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on http://www.womensradio.com/author/lhurd, and https://womenswealth.podbean.com, on the SoundCloud Apps for iPhone and Android, https://soundcloud.com/womenswealthmiddleway and Spotify. See you in two weeks!
Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis is the first-grade teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School who saved her entire class of fifteen six- and-seven-year-olds from the tragic events that took place on December 14, 2012, by piling them into a single-occupancy bathroom within her classroom, mere feet from the brutal and indiscriminate massacre taking place outside the door. Since then, despite the unimaginably painful experiences she endured, she has chosen to share her experience with others, in the hope that they too can find light in dark moments. Kaitlin is the Founder & Executive Director of Classes 4 Classes, Inc., a 501(c)3 organization and author of Choosing Hope. www.Classes4Classes.orgFor more show information visitwww.MomentsWithMarianne.com#MomentswithMarianne #inspiration #love #choosinglove
Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis is the first-grade teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School who saved her entire class of fifteen six- and-seven-year-olds from the tragic events that took place on December 14, 2012, by piling them into a single-occupancy bathroom within her classroom, mere feet from the brutal and indiscriminate massacre taking place outside the door. Since then, despite the unimaginably painful experiences she endured, she has chosen to share her experience with others, in the hope that they too can find light in dark moments. Kaitlin is the Founder & Executive Director of Classes 4 Classes, Inc., a 501(c)3 organization and author of Choosing Hope. www.Classes4Classes.org
Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis is the first-grade teacher from Sandy Hook who saved her entire first grade class in December 2012. She will carry the memory of that traumatic day forever, but she has found a way to move forward with hope that we can all learn from. Her inspiring outlook reminds us that there will always be tragedy in the world; but she questions and teaches us that is not reason enough to keep the blinds shut forever. This is not to say that for a period of time that is exactly what she did. As the inherent teacher that Kaitlin is...she instructs us that we, too, have the ability to choose to let the light in. Kaitlin saved her class that day in 2012 with her quick thinking and level headedness and is here today to teach us what it means to choose hope from her new book, "Choosing Hope."
Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis is the brave and resourceful young teacher who piled her 15 first-grade students into a tiny bathroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and hid there with them during what is now known as the worst mass murder of schoolchildren in the United States. She is the founder of the nonprofit organization Classes 4 Classes Inc., which teaches compassion, caring and empathy through active engagement to children around the United States. Kaitlin has been honored as a Glamour Magazine Woman of the Year and received the Dedicated Teacher Award from the Chicago International Conference on Education and two honorary doctorate degrees. Her new book is Choosing Hope: Moving Forward from Life's Darkest Hours. She was in the Northwest to speak at Town Hall Seattle, presented by: Town Hall and University Book Store, as part of the Arts & Culture series.