40. TRAUMA-INFORMED PRACTICES: The Medicine of Story with Teacher Consultant + Author Patty McLain

A trauma-informed practitioner isn’t a magical unicorn. They’re someone who is deeply committed to integration and have put the work in so they can model and lead other people into their shadows. This is why when I met Patty, I knew I needed to share her voice on this podcast. 

 It's so clear that Patty loves helping people. She loves  to empower people to move towards their goals + dreams by showing them how to leverage their unique interests and abilities to foster more connection + compassion in their lives. She has an impressive pedigree of advanced degrees in education but she walked away from the classroom to follow her own path.  She is now a Trauma-Informed Teacher Consultant who works with teachers and students to bring a healing perspective into the classroom. Patty’s well-rounded approach draws on her experience as an ordained holistic minister, student of energy healing, and education in Social Emotional Learning and Trauma Informed Teaching. 

Patty is an author, consultant, speaker and trainer as well as a volunteer, employee and advisor for stellar local and global non-profits and I am so excited to share her voice and her story as inspiration for your own journey.


What You'll Learn in this Episode: 

• What it means to be “trauma-informed" in a school setting and why it is vital to education
• Why incorporating trauma-informed education to teachers helps create better learning outcomes for students
• Why vulnerability is needed in the classroom to create a safe environment to model self-regulation
• Revealing your Personal Legend by being a “transitional” character who breaks patterns
• The medicine of Story 

Resources: 

• Patty's Books 
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey 
• The Things They Carry by Tim O’Brien
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
• You are a Badass by Jen Sincero

Patty McLain is a former high school teacher turned consultant who is passionate about empowering teachers with tools that will help them and their students better navigate stress and overwhelm.  She is also an author and coach committed to sharing hope, teaching wholeheartedness, and showing up fully and authentically for herself and others.

Kat HoSoo Lee is an Emotional Alchemy Coach, Spiritual Business Mentor and host of The Emotional Alchemy Podcast.

She loves playing in the space where science and spirituality converge because this is where we get to experience emotional alchemy. In her work, she educates space-holders about somatic physiology and environmental biology so they can deepen their practices of listening and presence which ultimately helps them expand their capacity to hold space for others.

As a Spiritual Business Mentor, she guides soulful entrepreneurs to approach their business as a spiritual practice. The work bridges the emotional landscape with practical tools which allow them to cultivate businesses that are rooted in conscious values, relational marketing and purposeful service.

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