What’s Your Election Day/Day(s) After Resilience Plan?
Do you have a plan in place to manage your thoughts and emotions next week? Here are some practices that are helping me to take a “resiliency pause”:
Posts By Rebecca H Bryan
Trust That TRUST Will Benefit Your New Jersey Organization
The Trauma Responsive Understanding Self-Assessment Tool (TRUST) is now available, for free, to any organization that has five or more employees in the State of New Jersey.
Screen for Relational Health, Not Just Physical and Emotional Health
What gives me hope is that we have agency in this. We can make eye contact or provide physical touch, if those are appropriate and feel comfortable; we can be kind, we can bring intention to building connection – it all has ripple effects. And we can put.down.our.phones.!
The NJ Office of Resilience Has Shifted Its Focus from Self-Healing Communities Model to Healing-Centered Engagement Model
The shift to a Healing-Centered Engagement Model releases culture as a root cause of trauma, to instead celebrate the intrinsic resilience and the capacity to promote PCEs that ethnic history, racial and other social identities afford. This is particularly important for white, privileged communities to embrace, given their historical diminishment of non-white cultures.
The NJ Office of Resilience Has Shifted Its Focus from ACEs to PACEs
But the good news is that when we add Positive Childhood Experiences into the conversation, the emotional demand is lessened; hope enters the room.
I See You: Putting the Patient in the Center of the Healthcare Team
"When we take the time to step in the patient’s shoes, we have a better chance of understanding what is driving health outcomes – and how to intervene. After all, the patients are the experts of their own lives!"