Media, Films, & Research
Documentaries & Talks
Wounds to Wisdom (2025)
The creative artifact of Dr Penn’s doctoral research.
A feature documentary exploring what occurs when individuals narrate their own cultural trauma rather than having it interpreted through Western psychotherapeutic frameworks.
Do We Choose the Experience Our Trauma Teaches Us?
The presentation that introduced Dr Penn’s pain-to-power mapping framework and launched a decade of research.
Podcasts: Dr Yemi Penn as a guest
Conversations examining trauma, race, power, and healing:
Academic Research
Doctoral Thesis
Beyond the Lens
Transforming Trauma Through Decolonial Storytelling
(La Trobe University, 2025)
Recipient of the Nancy Millis Medal.
Doctoral Thesis
The Decolonised Documentary Framework
An original academic contribution establishing how visual media can center storyteller autonomy and extend post-traumatic growth beyond Western models.
ENQUIRE FOR ACCESSRecent Media, Panels & Academic work
Conversations examining trauma, race, power, and healing:
Keynotes and panel moderation
Transform Trauma Conference
The University of Oxford