CITR Colloquium 2026: The Neurosequential Model in Education: an Aotearoa New Zealand story
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AUT's Centre for Interdisciplinary Trauma Research (CITR) supports and conducts trauma research that contributes to the health and wellbeing of people living in Aotearoa New Zealand. CITR sponsors regular research colloquia.
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Trauma informed education is an emerging paradigm based on neuroscientific understandings that centre relational safety and connection. The Neuro sequential Model in Education is one such systemic trauma-informed approach which involves the children, school staff, whānau, and the wider community.
In this presentation, Dr Blackett will present a descriptive case study of a small primary school in Aotearoa New Zealand that explores the question, “What were the experiences of staff in an Aotearoa New Zealand primary school who took part in the implementation of the Neurosequential Model in Education?” The participants’ stories are inspiring, hopeful and transformative. Findings show participants increased their knowledge and understanding of how the brain works, experienced their own healing, developed a greater capacity to self-regulate and co-regulate, and built a strong therapeutic web for the students with the effects beginning to flow out to parents and whānau. Moreover, a unique model was created through weaving together the neuroscience of the Neurosequential Model in Education and the indigenous wisdom of Te Ao Māori. This descriptive case study makes a unique contribution to this developing field of research and can serve as one exemplar of how the approach can be implemented.
Please direct all queries to the organisers at citr@aut.ac.nz.
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