I think it is important to both introduce the brain science AND name specific things that students can do with each other. One of the things that Dr. Felitti talks about is resilience coming from the deep belief that you really matter to another human being. After talking about the brain science, there are a lot of places we can take that. HS students are hungry to make the world a better place.
What can we do as staff to help people know they matter (while still maintaining academic rigor). What can you do in your community. What could we as a group do to make our community more resilient?
Our culture is heavy into rewards and punishment which are not really trauma informed...so one of the important pieces is about relationship, not feel good short term goodies.
Our experience is that learning how to make relationships takes practice... and it is messy... My wonder is where the adults are in this. If the adults haven't already done some of their own trauma informed work, you might take a short step backward and start there.