Kelly Purcell
Kelly Purcell has a Master of Arts in Teaching with 10 years of experience as an educator with experience as a classroom teacher and an instructional coach. She is a certified Community Resiliency Model teacher and a certified trauma-informed yoga instructor. Kelly started a well-being company called Ground. Connect. Empower. LLC that offers workshops, trauma-informed yoga, and sound healing. She got certified as a CRM teacher in 2019, and since then Kelly has taught CRM workshops for educators, social workers, Guardian ad Litem volunteers and staff, foster parents, community members as well as presented CRM at the Darkness to Light National Prevention Conference and the Regional Medical Assistants Conference in Wilmington, NC. She has also been a facilitator for multiple CRM teacher trainings with the Trauma Resource Institute. Kelly is also currently working with a team of people on a project called the Healthy Blue Initiative to support the health and well-being of children/youth, their families, and caregivers in the foster care system. The multi-county initiative is working to grow and support the local resiliency initiatives in six counties in North Carolina and to provide CRM workshops for those caring for and working with children/youth in the foster care system. Kelly is passionate about not only using the CRM skills to help individuals regulate their nervous system but to ultimately lead to systems change. She is deeply passionate about holistic healing practices
