The Strand School House


☞Our Mission: To pave a path from trauma to transcendence through training, education and technical assistance

☞We Envision: A global response to crisis and trauma that is hopeful, human, trauma-informed and centered on transcendence.



The Instructor



Myra Strand, MA, CA, is the owner and advocate diplomat of Strand², where she provides training, education, and technical assistance. Her services are available in person, virtually, and on-demand. Since its inception in 2017, Strand² has worked with thousands of responding professionals.

Myra began working with people who live with trauma in 1995. She has experience working with youth who have complex trauma and/or serious mental illness, people with developmental disabilities, youth in competing war zones, offenders, with death notification, and with victims of all crime types. Myra places a special emphasis on holistic health as it relates to organizational trauma.

For nearly 10 years, Myra taught issues of violence, sexuality and applied intersectionality for over a decade at Northern Arizona University and/or Coconino Community College. She has also taught social justice classes in the Detention Center working on issues of violence and healing. She lives in upstate New York with her husband, Russell Strand. She is also a trauma informed yoga instructor and acrylic artist.