A ten minute film on what trauma-informed care actually looks like when you are sitting with a mother in an emergency. It was made for the Infant Feeding in Emergencies (IFE) Core Group and first shown to a global audience in January 2026. It was filmed in a North Carolina church, in a room our own families have used, and two of the people in it are ours.
Free to watch. Subtitles included. Ten minutes.
What the film shows
A counsellor meets a mother in an emergency setting. The first scene is an infant feeding assessment. The second is the follow up, and that is where the trauma-informed practice becomes visible: what the counsellor does with her body, the order she asks things in, how slowly she moves, and what she leaves unsaid.
There is no narrator telling you what to think and no list of principles on screen. You watch one conversation handled with care, and the practice is in the handling. That is what makes it useful in a room full of people who have already been told what trauma-informed care means and still do not know what to do with their hands.
How to use it in a training
Ten minutes is short enough to drop into almost any session. We show it once straight through with no set up, then talk. If you have time, show it a second time and pause where the counsellor changes what she is doing.
Questions that get a room talking:
- What did the counsellor do before she asked a single question?
- Where did she slow down, and what changed when she did?
- What did she choose not to say?
- What would this look like in your setting, with your building and your caseload?
- Which part of this is hardest to do at hour nine, when the line is still out the door?
It pairs well with our own Nourishing Resilience series, which covers the assessment and counselling skills in more depth and gives you the handouts to go with them.
Who made it
The film was produced for the IFE Core Group, convened by the Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN), for a webinar on integrating trauma-informed care and maternal mental health support into IYCF-E assessment. It was promoted globally and presented with live interpretation in Spanish, French and Arabic to participants from more than thirty countries.
- Filmed and edited by Adam Booher, Siren Pictures
- Coordinated by Peggy Koniz-Booher, with Jodine Chase of SafelyFed Canada
- The two roles are played by Love Anderson of the SAFE Team and Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities, and by Lua Reed
- Filmed January 9, 2026 in North Carolina
Full credits appear at the end of the film. It belongs to the IFE Core Group and we share it here with thanks.
How it came to be filmed here
It took ten days from the first email to the camera rolling, over the holidays, with no budget and a doll standing in for the baby. The story is worth reading.