Equipping Educators with a Human-Informed Approach to Trauma-Responsive Classrooms
Blending neuroscience, compassion, and classroom experience to help teachers and caregivers understand the why beneath behavior—so they can respond with clarity and create spaces where learning and healing take root.
Trish Zenczak is a passionate speaker, trauma-informed educator, and advocate helping Christian teachers and leaders create calmer classrooms.
A former teacher and foster/adoptive mom, Trish blends lived experience, neuroscience, compassion, and faith to help people understand the why beneath behavior. Through her Human-Informed approach, she equips others to respond with clarity, rebuild safety, and restore connection. Her talks and trainings offer vulnerable stories and practical tools layered with honest hope for anyone walking alongside kids from hard places.
Voices From the Room
Real words from teachers, caregivers, and leaders who’ve experienced Trish’s workshops firsthand.
"I am energized to look more compassionately at myself and my students through a new lens "
Being able to give a name to...behaviors and understand the why behind them
Elaine G.
Elementary School Teacher, Florida
"....the info was meant for a range of personal experience of those attending."
Now I have specific direction, tools, and encouragement in a whole new area to work [on], in general, and also in specific ways shared in the presentations.
Ta S.
Royal Palm Beach, Florida
"Learning about autonomy and where it wasn’t met resonated deeply."
"I feel more equipped with lots of tools... She brought wisdom and a sense of safety because she shared her own story."
Christine C.
Church Leader, Florida
"I left with tools I did not have before such as definitions of behaviors."
The co-regulation portion of the workshop had the most impact on me.
Lana S.
Loxahatchee, Florida
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