General Trauma-Informed Care
In 2021, ignoring trauma is no longer possible. As a collective, we have just experienced a year of trauma whose fallout will continue to color our lives as individuals and in a global sense. Through setbacks and surprises, we have been forever changed.
Responsive care beyond these experiences is a valuable asset in your workplace. Maybe you’ve been looking for a way to provide that care through education and reassurance of the value of relationships in the workforce.
If so, trauma-informed training is for you.
Is Your Business Prepared For The Future?
You’ve become aware of the pervasiveness of trauma but have not yet implemented strategies to keep it at the forefront of your mind in your dealings with your business’s employees or clients. You may not be fully versed about how trauma can affect the brain or how to best avoid re-traumatizing those who have experienced trauma firsthand.
You and your business will benefit from learning about trauma-informed care.
Do You Own A Business You Can Be Proud Of?
How do you educate your employees about trauma?
How are you promoting a company culture of empathy and understanding?
To do what’s best for your employees and your clients, you must be willing to acknowledge that trauma is as pervasive as any other mental health concern. Take pride in your business by taking care of your employees and all those they come in contact with.
What is Trauma-Informed Care?
Trauma-informed care takes into account the prevalence of trauma in our modern society. Instead of contributing to potentially re-traumatizing environments, the goal is to intentionally create healing environments through practices and services that are clearly aware of the effects of trauma in the brain and how it can manifest in daily life.
Why It Matters
Everyone experiences difficult moments, and we know how hard it can be to bounce back. Those who have experienced traumatic situations are faced with more obstacles—they’re dealing with both physical and emotional symptoms that stem from actual brain changes.
Being trauma-informed means learning to recognize trauma and its effects and what we can do to establish safety again.
Who Needs It
When you are a provider of mental or physical health or recognize the importance of monitoring your employees’ wellness, this training is for you.
Whether you’re a business looking to train employees or whether you’re trying to train managers to improve hiring procedures, any organization can benefit from learning about the widespread effects of trauma and its lasting shadow on people’s lives and how leaders can be a force for positive change in their organizations.
Are You
Trauma-Informed?
Does your organization:
Ensure physical and emotional safety?
Provide individuals with choice and control?
Make decisions through collaborative means?
Set and enforce firm interpersonal boundaries?
Prioritize empowerment and skill-building?
The Goals of Trauma-Informed Training
Trauma-informed care aims to promote cohesive strategies to deal with trauma between an organization, its staff or clients, and the broader community.
We begin with developing awareness of how trauma seeps into people’s lives and takes hold of their psyche. We ask a lot of whys and reflect on our own understanding of trauma at its root. After all, it’s not just big events that leave lasting trauma. Once we’ve got a solid structure from which to build, our goal becomes empowering people to make collaborative choices so they can find trust in one another and themselves.
At the end of the day, trauma-informed care training aims to educate those who might see people suffering from trauma and teach them strategies to best respond.
At an organizational level, trauma-informed care offers change in the fabric of team culture to emphasize appropriate responses to trauma effects. We will work to re-conceptualize our perspective of employees or clients. Then, we will work through creating new relationships amid related policies and procedures. By framing the shape of our organizational culture, we can reframe the way we support the people who make it up.
It might seem small, but the positive results will be immense.
The shift for an organization is to create compassionate curiosity. We will re-frame thoughts from “what’s wrong with” into a trauma-supported “what’s happened” to facilitate understanding in approach. Once we can see how often behaviors are a response instead of a choice, we can revive respect between individuals and groups.
My Trauma-Informed Webinar
What’s Included:
The trauma-informed training includes:
A discussion on trauma’s effect on the brain
An overview of trauma-informed care
An overview of the skills associated with trauma-informed care
A discussion on secondary and vicarious trauma
Amanda Gibson, LCSW
About Me
Counseling | Coaching | Consulting
I have worked for over 15 years in clinical and leadership roles in non-profit organizations specializing in helping people and organizations find the best version of themselves.
I’ve specialized in helping people survive traumatic life events for much of my career. Trauma is a crucial part of my practice. My expertise on its effect on the brain and our daily lives can bring insight to any organization.
Why Work With a Therapist
Therapists are experts at mental health.
When discussing trauma, mental health is at the forefront of the discussion. The ultimate goal is to better support and treat those who have undergone trauma. However, I am not only a licensed counselor—I have extensive experience talking about trauma and giving lectures on the subject. I’ve developed an effective introduction to the topic to help your organization become better informed about trauma.
“When we deny our stories, they define us.
When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.”
— Brené Brown
What Your Business Needs in 2021
Organizational Development
Like many mental health concerns, trauma is one of many issues an organization can run into when trying to optimize its procedures. If you are looking to enhance the performance of your organization, you’ll want to make sure your employees are educated on mental health issues and that they feel their workplace is safe and comfortable.
Leadership Coaching
Looking to improve your leadership skills? A good leader understands his team well enough to motivate and inspire them to achieve goals. But not all leaders are perfect—in fact, any leader can benefit from leadership coaching. It’s just like trauma-informed care: the more you know, and the better you stay informed, the better outcomes you’ll receive for yourself and your organization.
Be an Anti-racism Workplace
Unfortunately, we live in a world where both the effects of trauma and racism are widely felt. When you’re looking to tackle the problem of racism in your organization, it’s essential to learn how racism affects everyone’s lives: those who suffer from oppression and those who benefit from privilege. In the end, we all pay the price for acts of discrimination. We can all benefit from a society in which we respect one another and fight against hatred.
Be a Culturally Responsive Workplace
Along with racism in the workplace, it’s necessary to acknowledge that people come from many different backgrounds. Cultural intelligence is one of many factors that affect the modern workplace, especially in a multicultural country like the US. Addressing different cultural norms is just as crucial as addressing race or trauma. It’s imperative that organizations do so in the most appropriate manner to avoid pitfalls and encourage open conversation.
ACEs Training
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic experiences that people undergo as children. Just like trauma, ACEs can stay with us for the rest of our lives and unconsciously affect what we do and how we act. ACEs training truly goes hand-in-hand with trauma-informed care, as it’s essential to understand the history of trauma that affects so many in our nation, as well as the somatic intelligence available to us to help them heal.
Ready to elevate your business?