How trauma can affect learning

 Trauma greatly impacts our cognitive abilities.  In our current culture there is a mirage reasons why individuals, children in particular, struggle at even the most basic aspects of life. The tasks of learning and retaining new information in school, staying focused, completing a task for a boss or simply having the mental energy and motivation to want to succeed in daily life become extremally difficult.  

Equipping Minds Therapists are trained to focus on the awareness of both the possible and practical aspects of true healing. The curriculum provided in this course fills in the cognitive pieces that are causing many of those learning challenges. As you work through these practices you can expect to see increases in mood, processing, executive functioning, working memory, comprehension, fluid reasoning, language, social skills, academics, and attention.