"Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent or gradual." – Jean Piaget

Education has shaped everything I do. For over fifteen years I’ve taught, facilitated, and studied how people learn — and, more importantly, how people are kept safe (or aren’t) while they’re learning. That question is what led me, eventually, to trauma-informed practice, to poetry therapy, and to the two threads you’ll find on this page: training for institutions, and research into how the written and spoken word can hold trauma without reopening it.

Where this comes from

My academic home is Philology — language and literature have always been my true love, and I’ve never stopped believing they hold real potential for healing. But it was language teaching itself that taught me the harder lesson: reaching fluency, finding your voice, speaking in front of others — none of that is really about discipline or intelligence. It’s about safety.

In 2024, training as a trauma-informed schools and communities practitioner gave me the framework I’d been circling for years. I learned that an emotionally available, well-meaning educator isn’t always enough — that we need to understand what a partially healed wound looks like, how easily it reopens, and how to build spaces where it doesn’t have to.

That’s the thread running through everything below: decolonial and trauma-informed education, tools for the people doing the teaching and tutoring, and poetry therapy as a concrete practice for emotional resilience and wellbeing — not just an idea, but something I bring into classrooms, staff rooms, and conference halls.

Training

I work with universities, faculties, and organisations that want to bring trauma-informed thinking into their teaching, tutoring, and student support — grounded in real practice, not theory alone.

Recent work includes designing and co-delivering “Educación informada sobre el trauma: herramientas para la acción tutorial y la orientación,” a training for teaching and research faculty at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and supervising Master’s thesis students in the Spanish as a Foreign Language programme at UNIR.

I also love collaborating with festivals and community organisations — most recently speaking at the International Poetry Therapy Festival and Symposium in Italy on how children externalise unspoken pain through poetry, painting, and clay.

I design and deliver interactive sessions, talks, courses, and staff development days tailored to your setting — welcoming participants of all backgrounds, disciplines, and levels of familiarity with trauma-informed work.

→ See the full Academia & Training page for course outlines and past sessions.

Research

Alongside training, I carry out independent research into poetry therapy as a trauma-informed tool — in education, and in the wider context of historical memory and intergenerational silence.

My current project, Escribir desde la herida, looks at how expressive writing can give language to what’s been passed down but never named — particularly across generations shaped by historical trauma. It sits alongside my broader work exploring poetry therapy’s place in trauma-informed education, which I’ve presented at symposia and am developing for publication, including a forthcoming chapter in Attraverso la poesiaterapia (Edizioni Mille Gru).

→ Read more about Escribir desde la herida.

Let's work together

If you’re planning a course, conference, or professional development day and want to bring in something rigorous and human, I’d love to hear from you — whether that means a training, a talk, or a research collaboration.

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