
Alongside Chasing Normal, Beck’s keynote Childhood Trauma: How Teachers Saved Me is transforming schools and conferences nationwide — showing educators the profound difference they can make.
"An intense, powerful story from Beck but also exceptionally inspiring as a teacher to see and hear that small actions do have an impact."
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Not your typical PD.
Here, science meets lived experience — with strategies you can use straight away.
In this session, Beck Thompson — educator, speaker, and author of Chasing Normal — shares how rhythm, connection, and the brain’s natural sequence can calm the stress response and create safety. Drawing on Dr. Bruce Perry’s neuroscience and her own lived experience, Beck shows how simple, nurturing strategies regulate the lower brain, build trust, and open access to the cortex — where focus, problem-solving, and learning become possible. Science, story, and strategies — practical tools for every educator.