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Services

K. Mansfield, 2019

Trauma & resilience education

A holistic approach to trauma and resilience training can help individuals, teams, and organizations identify and address needs.

K. Mansfield, 2019

Rekindling creativity

Metabolize overwhelm and amplify a sense of possibility through embodied practice and expressive arts, in formats ranging from hourly sessions to a 5-day intensive experience.

K. Mansfield, 2019

Practical accompaniment

Organizations and communities benefit from facilitation, analysis, and process design. Individuals nourish professional and personal development.

Learn. Move. Rekindle. Metabolize. Create.

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    Online embodied care series (through Restorative Arlington)

    Sep-Dec 2026 Embodied care practices can help us regenerate personal and collective power as we tend to community healing.

    7 FREE one-hour sessions online

    (come to one, come to all)

    Dates/times:

    Wednesday, September 30 from 12-1pm ET:  Register here for lunchtime session.

    Tuesdays 7:00 - 8:00pm ET: Sep 29, Oct 13, 27, Nov 10, 24, Dec 8. Register here  for online evening sessions.

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    Foundations of trauma and resilience

    Sep-Nov 2026 Online STAR Level 1 intensive training related to the origins and impacts of trauma responses, and strategies for breaking free from cycles of violence associated with trauma experience.

    Starting Sep 22 2026, Tuesdays/Thursdays 11am-1pm eastern. Until Nov 17. Course information here.

  • In-person embodied care sessions (through Restorative Arlington)

    FREE 2-hour in-person arts-based, embodied learning sessions.

    Mon, Sep 28 from 6:30 -- 8:30pm 

    Wed, Sep 30 from 6:30 - 8:30pm 

    Arlington, VA

    Bc our body-mind-spirits can benefit from space and time - for ourselves, together - to metabolize and reset our energies, to engage our bodies in rest or mindful movement, to pause and integrate. This Embodied Care series includes grounding and centering activities, time and space for rest or movement with music, space for reflection, creation and connection. We want you to feel cared for in this space, and we hope these options will support you in feeling loved and held in community.

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    Applying a trauma lens to peace projects

    How to integrate trauma-responsive approaches into project planning and implementation? Through hands-on exercises and case-based learning, explore how trauma impacts systems and individuals and how a trauma-lens can be applied to conflict analysis, communication, and organizational practices. This offering is ideal for project managers, facilitators, and peacebuilders ready to support healing and resilience.

    4-hour sessions in Sept 2025. Completed.

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Food for thought

Listen (podcasts)

The Kroc Cast, “Resilience in the Face of a Global Pandemic” (Jul2020)

Bee Now Podcast/ host Arya Salehi, “Reclaim your creative self” (Apr2020)

Peacebuilder Podcast, "Refriending My Body" (Oct2019)

Consider (frameworks)

Wheel of strategic peacebuilding pathways. 2010. With J.P. Lederach.

Applying trauma sensitivity. 2023.

Trauma responsiveness assessment resource. 2024.

Read (publications)

Using Expressive Arts to Address Collective Trauma and Structural Violence in Korea and the USA. In Routledge International Handbook for Trauma-Responsive Peacebuilding, 2026. (Clarke-Habibi & Reimann, Eds.) With Ahn, E. and Chang, H.

Interrupting Violence with Trauma and Resilience Education. In Routledge International Handbook for Trauma-Responsive Peacebuilding, 2026. (Clarke-Habibi & Reimann, Eds.) With Mturi, K.

Body matters: Arts-based, embodied leadership development for resisting violence and injustice, 2025. In Women embodied leaders: Peacebuilding, protest, and professions(Thompson & Topuzova, Eds.), Emerald. With K. Ornelas.

In the “what-to-do” time: Practicing liberation amid harm and healing, 2024. In Separata da Revista Judiciária do Paraná #32. ISSN: 2316-4212. Qualis B4. Edição temática “Justiça Restaurativa,” pp. 28-36.

How do we recognize wholeness? Jul 2022. Mennonite Church USA blog.

Blowing in the wind? Or tangible in our flesh and bones? Sep 2021. In Peace Journal PlanP (Korean/English).

Taking play seriously: Creative processing of trauma through expressive arts, 2020. In Healing and peacebuilding after war: Transforming trauma in Bosnia and Herzegovina(Funk, Good & Berry, Eds.). Routledge.

Why are we talking about trauma? 2019. EMU Peacebuilder blog.

What does it mean to be trauma-informed and resilience-oriented? 2019. EMU Peacebuilder blog.

Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience programme: experiential education towards resilience and trauma informed people and practice, 2017. Intervention, 15, No. 3, pp. 264-277.

Supporting creative, whole peacebuilders: An apprenticeship program, 2016. In Faith and practice in conflict resolution(Rachel Goldberg, Ed.), Lynne Rienner Publishers. With J.P. Lederach et al.

Bridges towards truth: Storytelling in conflict transformation in Kenya. 2013. Mercy Corps Kenya. With A.M. Ouma.

The evaluation puzzle: simple and complex. MCC Peace Office Newsletter, 42, No. 4, Oct-Dec 2012.

Listening to the experiences of the long-term displaced. Forced Migration Review 33, Sep 2009. With D. Brown. (Español)

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Photo: Katie Mansfield, 2024 (Caterpillar in my garden)