This 8 session program is designed to help providers provide equitable care without burnout. We’ll learn to identify trauma responses in patterns of attention—flight from conflict, overcompensation for emotion, or rigid rule enforcement, for example. Once we learn to spot these patterns in our self and others, we can resolve tension and redirect focus. This opens up new possibilities for collaboration. 

This program teaches you a systemic and relational view of caregiving. It allows you to accurately identify your resources so that you are working comfortably from your highest talents. From this position, burnout is no longer a norm. You’ll look beyond presenting tensions in order to see the true source of a problem. You’ll operate from the position that you are interconnected within the system, not trying to change it from without. This gives you more power because you operate intentionally as the active co-creator of culture that you are. You become the source of trust and stability that the system needs. 

This program is especially designed for caregivers in higher stress environments where regular contact with trauma-impacted patients is a norm. With a greater capacity for self-focus and regulation, you’ll be able to encourage new connections and collaboration that offer better care. This is done without self-sacrifice or judgment. Your own healing is the model.

Topics by Week

• Understanding trauma as a near-universal human experience 

• Working with trauma recovery as an ongoing common experience that our behavior can encourage 

• Seeing trauma responses in patterns of behavior—working with responses at the level of belief and sensation 

• Working deliberately, intentionally, and compassionately with the impulses to fix and judge 

• What does it feel like to co-regulate through nervous system relaxation?

• Working with historical and intergenerational trauma 

• Blameless healing - helping victims process without limitation 

• Conclusions - applying what we’ve learned