Trauma Informed Leadership
Trauma Informed Leadership is a way of understating or appreciating there is an emotional world of experiences rumbling around beneath the surface. When emotional responses are triggered in the workplace, each person responds according to the extent of their emotional scars, traumas and emotional strengths.
We were inspired by Jenee Johnson, San Francisco’s Department of Public Health Program Innovation Leader. Jenée wants the San Francisco Department of Public Health—all 9,000 employees—to take a deep breath. And another deep breath. And another. She wants them—janitors and judges, IT technicians and social workers—to find, in those breaths, the opening notes of a mindfulness practice. Those moments of calm, she believes, are the foundation of emotional intelligence and its skills of resilience and compassion. In effect, Johnson’s title—Program Innovation Leader: Mindfulness, Trauma, and Racial Equity—positions her as the municipal agency’s chief mindfulness officer. In that capacity, she is bringing mindfulness into the agency’s ongoing work with trauma. That work includes mandatory training for every employee about the prevalence of trauma; how it can affect both the agency’s clients and its workforce; and how to take a systemic approach to foster wellness and resilience. Her article was featured in the mindful magazine in our staff room but available here: https://www.scribd.com/article/453424753/Changing-The-Narrative
In our community we are facing various levels of response to Trauma and Disaster. Our community agencies, businesses and families are supporting some of the most fragile of people who have lost everything. Our workplaces have very little trauma informed literacy and our good hearted community members will need to be supported along the way. We need to prepare for and inform ourselves, staff and family members that for the foreseeable months and years, we will be moving through this disaster, pandemic our community members are experiencing.
We have come across some incredible tools and resources to share with you and our community. This website is only the beginning, there is plenty more in the interweb. We like to share vetted resources, and these people have been around for a long time and have a great variety of free and paid reputable resources.
Click the Picture above to be transported to ACHIEVE
More from our friends at CTRI: Crisis Trauma Resource Institute
Free guide on Trauma Informed Care; Click the link below.