Keep Calm & Connect and Culture Curiosity and Inclusivity

87750 Charlet Drive,Eugene OR 97402

29 August, 2022

Description

Learning Objectives Day 1: Keep Calm and Connect: A Trauma Informed/TraumaAWARE Approach to Connecting with Anyone • What is Trauma • Six Primary Principles of Trauma-Informed Care Trauma-AWARE is important for everyone • The Data: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) • Connecting with Intention, Authenticity, and AWAREness of Disconnects • Trauma effects on the brain • Responses to fear (TraumaAWAREness) • How our experiences shaped our lens: • Trauma-AWARE Language Power of language and Power AWAREness • Self-AWAREness and Self-Care: • Becoming an Ambassador for Trauma-AWARE Care Day 2: Culture, Curiosity, Inclusivity & Accountability All Organizations have a growing responsibility to improve culture, equity, and inclusion efforts not only for their employees but also to better serve their customers. By working to bolster efforts, organizations have a unique opportunity to improve the lives of those providing and receiving care and service. Given that this is such an important responsibility, where do organizations and teams begin? In this training, we discuss how organizations and teams can foster TraumaAWAREness and improve cultural organizational/team competence. Dialog and practice learning: • What is “IT”? Culture, Oppression, privilege, intersectionality, marginalization and more! • Historical evolution of Oppression • Exploration of Bias, Privilege, and intersectionality • The importance of TraumaAWAREness as the foundation of cultural inclusivity in all organizations • The “How” to be aware> Make the Change: SIPDE (Scan, Identify, Predict, Decide, Execute) • The role of social determinants of health and how culture affects needs • What cultural competence truly means • Why focusing on TAC is equally as important to staff wellness as it is to those we serve • Where are you with SAMHSAs 4 R’s of trauma-informed program, organization or system • Group and individual exercises will be performed to collect thoughts and team feedback of the 6 elements of TIC (defined by SAMHSA) of the team’s perspective. This information will be collected and given to leadership at the end of day two for accountability action planning. What is the difference between Trauma-Informed and TraumaAWARE™? Through the years, we began acknowledging the importance of how trauma-informed care and approaches to the systems across the United States. Sadly, we live in a very traumatized society, the providers, as well as the people that we work with, are re-traumatized in our systems. We are "reactive to crisis" rather than being "responsive". Over the years of receiving training after training, we began to have conversations with others who also knew that things needed to change in our system! We understood that trauma was prevalent and that every person we meet may have experienced trauma. We are able to explain the principles of voice and choice and quote the “data”. What was left out was the practice to embody the principles and implement them in life, work, and spaces. Something needed to be done! The need for understanding "trauma-informed care" and being a TraumaAWARE person and a TraumaAWARE system are very different. Trauma-Informed Care is the “What and the Why” TraumaAWARE is the “How”! We need more TraumaAWAREness! TraumaAWARE Care is a way of being, its an internal and external awareness. It requires deep self-reflection and self-AWAREness, it is an embodiment of the principles reflected in who you are as a person, how you interact with others and how you represent yourself in your workplace and the community. It is having self-AWAREness and recognizing your part, using your influence to ensure TraumaAWARE environments. We are systems change agents for TraumaAWAREness. Once you are AWARE of trauma activation, communication becomes different with everyone around, it broadens your TraumaAWARE lens, and you begin exploring ways to create TraumaAWARE environments for everyone and begin to realize that every person likely has trauma. Trauma is not linear and every person's capacity to handle trauma is different, any activation could be a trauma reaction. You see a crisis as an opportunity for connection and learning opportunities! To be TraumaAWARE is the paradigm shift to be inclusive of not only the “What and Why” but the missing piece is the “How”! Fawn Preston Founder Angel Prater Co-Founder [email protected]