Trauma-Informed Leadership and Workplace Culture Insights

Last week, we talked about building resilience through positive and stable adult relationships. Today, we’ll explore how a deep...

Resilience is built in three core ways: positive and stable adult relationships, a strong connection to faith and cultural traditions, and the mastery of a life skill. When you incorporate these three components into your life, you will experience resilience. And as you build your own resilience, you enable yourself to be a trauma-informed leader who can build organizational resilience. Today, we’re discussing the first aspect of building resilience: positive and stable adult

No matter what type of organization you help run, if you are a leader, you should be promoting resilience and agility in the workplace. Why? When the individuals that make up an organization are better able to face challenges, the entire system is strengthened. Resilience mitigated risks, ensuring that challenges won’t set your business back as far they could. Organizations improve their overall resilience when they can: · anticipate disruptions · prepare for roadbl

Connecting Fight Flight Freeze to Trauma Brain and what is happening in the world.

Recently, I've noticed a plethora of articles written about vulnerability in leadership, empathetic leadership, coaching leadership and...

I live in a world full of people with giant hearts. Its true. Everywhere you look in the world of Human Services and Child Advocacy you...

Sorry I’ve been silent. I’ve been brooding, angry over the system, policies and government. I find it is best that I don’t write when I’m angry, but this last bout of anger doesn’t seem to be going away, so I hope that you don’t mind that I finally decided to try and vent on my blog. It started rather simply: I was reading the latest report from the National Center of Law for Children. They do one every year. I could barely get through paragraph two before I was writing ques

Since the release of Garbage Bag Suitcase, I have had some interesting human encounters. I have traveled around the country and even into...

Lying is a topic that I have been meaning to cover on this blog for sometime, but frankly every time I sit down to write it, I get...

I was recently asked to be on the Incarcerate US podcast that is hosted by Dante Nottingham, an inmate who has been locked up since the...

It's almost impossible to help a child or a parent in need and not be affected by what we are seeing. This is true for any professional...

I have written before about how I was a self-help book addict. I read every book I could find, re-reading several of them and even going...

A NATION TRIGGERED Using Powerful Questions to Coach Ourselves to Bi-Partisanship It’s official: in the United States we have a new...

I have never really been good at relationships. Intimacy scares me, and trust is something that is earned. When I travel now, speaking...

I make no bones about it, as a foster child, I don’t think I was an easy person to get along with and I certainly wasn’t trying to make...

I am very excited to bring you my first guest blog. In full disclosure, I met Cathy Anther-Fialon, at a webcast on a seminar regarding building trauma informed communities. It won't be hard for you to understand that we immediately hit it off. Up until that point I had been working in my community, primarily isolated and the progress was slow. After out interaction, we have been able to move our community forward, together at a more rampant pace, which is good for my own ment

There’s a women standing in front of me at the grocery store. I can see her fidgeting, shifting her weight back and forth. She glances my...

This evening we interview Shenandoah Chefalo (author of the recently published memoir “Garbage Bag Suitcase”) about a blog she recently...

I have attended several funerals during my lifetime. At one, when I was still in high school, I remember watching the mother of a friend...