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“Trauma-informed teaching and transformative discomfort: from elite victims to social justice”

This talk develops the concept of transformative discomfort, building on Michalinos Zembylas’ pedagogy of discomfort, and integrating insights from trauma work on windows of tolerance. This shows how, within supportive environments, experiencing manageable distress can potentially be a positive experience that facilitates deep critical reflection and intellectual development. It outlines pedagogical skills for maintaining safe windows of tolerance, using supportive strategies that enhance students’ abilities to manage challenging ideas while developing skills to manage distressing issues in their lives and professional work. This approach offers a framework for understanding distress in learning environments, strategies for supporting student development, and a critique of the harms of unreflective corporate risk management and the political privileging of the well-being of some groups over others.