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Hi Elaine,

Our NEAR training program uses an easy and cheap warmup. Participants pair up and tell a story to one another, the prompt is something like, "Talk about a time when you felt safe and protected as a child". Then the presenter asks, "What made the difference for you?" And writes a list on one side of the board. The list will be something like, "Caring adult, my skills and capacities, a friend, spirituality" - common resilience-enhancing factors. Then the presenter asks, "What are your concerns for children in your community?" And writes that list on the other side. Once the lists are done, they draw a simple "see-saw" at the bottom - a line, with a triangle fulcrum. They explain how the factors on one side can balance out the harms on the other side, and how the middle can move based on things like genetics or environment, and how sometimes more resilience factors are needed to balance out the stressors or vice-versa.

I hope I'm explaining this well! It's a great little visual example of how a child's environment can support their development, and it's easily applied to TIC as well. You could shape the prompts a little differently to get at TIC.

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