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This training builds a common understanding of trauma to fully recognize its impact on our brains, bodies, and how we engage with the world around us.  While community trauma has often been removed from larger discussions about trauma, this training focuses on the interplay between community trauma and interpersonal trauma, recognizing how the experience of community trauma increases one’s vulnerability to interpersonal trauma.  Furthermore, this training explores how community trauma is rooted in local and national experiences of historical trauma – all of which are fueled by systemic oppression.  Systemic oppression, in all of its forms, is trauma and as oppression persists, trauma is perpetuated in our communities, regardless of whether that oppression is in the form of interpersonal, organizational, institutional, or systemic oppression.  We only work towards dismantling the cyclical process of trauma, as well as being to foster healing, when we work to shift our personal lens and change the question from “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?” and “What’s continuing to happen in this moment?”.