When: November 20 @ 7:30 - 9:00 AM PDT
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Cost: Free. Suggested donation of $10 USD.
While we provide an option to attend this event for free, as a nonprofit we depend on donations and your contribution is greatly appreciated!
The Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® Workshops introduces participants to six wellness skills. CRM Workshops help create “trauma-informed” and “resiliency-informed” individuals and communities that share a common understanding of the impact of trauma and chronic stress on the nervous system and how resiliency can be restored or increased using this skills-based approach.
The two fundamental goals of CRM are to help adults and children learn to track their own nervous systems in order to bring the body, mind and spirit back into greater balance, and to encourage people to pass the skills along to family, friends and their wider community.
CRM can be used as self-care for those community members who are the front-line workers, responding to crisis situations or who live in highly traumatized and/or marginalized communities. In addition, CRM can be taught as a peer-to-peer program, called the Teacher Training program, where community members can be trained to help themselves and others.
Facilitators
Elaine Miller-Karas is a prominent figure in the field of trauma resiliency, serving as the Co-Founder and Executive Director Emeritus at the Trauma Resource Institute. She is also the author of the book titled Building Resiliency to Trauma, the Trauma and Community Resiliency Models, 2nd Edition (published in 2023). Her work has had a profound impact globally, as she has dedicated herself to promoting healing in communities around the world.
Miller-Karas' innovative trauma resiliency models have been introduced in 75 countries across Asia, Africa, North America, Australia, the Middle East, South America, and Europe. Her expertise as an international speaker and author has led her to present the Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® at prestigious events like the Skoll World Forum and the United Nations. Remarkably, her book has been recognized by the United Nations, and her publisher, Taylor and Francis, curated online library as a valuable resource contributing to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Dr. Laura Burgis is the president of The Human Values Center (HVC), a nonprofit CBO dedicated to student development in K-12 and higher education, focusing on resilience-building programs rooted in nature-based curricula and aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Inner Development Goals (IDGs). The work of the HVC supports collaboration among university partners to engage in regional service-learning programs for eco-impact at scale.
Before forming her team at HVC, Dr. Burgis spent 25 years in academia, serving as Associate Dean at Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business and later as the founding Executive Vice President of Claremont Lincoln University. Her current research agenda examines inner-development curricula and pedagogy in nature-based contexts, indigenous ways of learning, and community development for students in the local community. She is passionate about raising consciousness and the potential of collective well-being as a collaborative movement, where harmony may be restored and all beings flourish.
In that spirit, Dr. Burgis volunteers locally with Compassionate Pomona initiatives. Laura is co-chair of the 2025 Southern California Regional Collective Wellbeing Leadership Summit & Public Exhibit; and is a trustee of Baltazar & Rose, an LA-based social enterprise supporting refugees and former gang members with job skill training and love.
Dr. Laura Burgis is a certified CRM trainer.
