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Trauma Stewardship

Trauma Stewardship An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others. Trauma Stewardship. By Amanda Johnson, Stephanie Sutton, and Josie Riggle. Stewardship. Stewardship: The job of supervising or taking care of something, in this sense yourself.

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Trauma Stewardship

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  1. TraumaStewardship An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring forOthers Trauma Stewardship By Amanda Johnson, StephanieSutton, and JosieRiggle

  2. Stewardship Stewardship: The job of supervising or taking care of something, in thissense yourself. “The future depends on what you do today.”Gandhi

  3. “Nothing has to change in this world for us to transform our ownlife. We have the power to change even if it is only our own world” (p.14). Don’t wait tolive! “Trauma as well as change creates a ripple effect” (p.17).

  4. 3 Levels ofTrauma • Personal • To be an effective trauma steward it is important to know where our own self ends and another’s selfbegins. • Organizational • Service rationing- The process that you go through to bridge the everyday divide between the ideal and the reality. • Trauma at work manifests in twoways • A lack ofaccountability • Unethicalbehavior • Be aware of how you have changed in your job, re-evaluate your priorities regularly. • Societal • Oppression thrives on misunderstanding, alienation and the us/thembinaries.

  5. A trauma exposure response has occurred when external trauma becomes our internalreality. Cultivating awareness will allow us to recognize these shifts early on and limit their negative effect on ourlives.

  6. Trauma ExposureResponse (Let’s honor ourselves for having the courage to look honestly at ourbehavior.) Feeling helpless andhopeless. A sense that no one can ever doenough. Hypervigilance. Diminished creativity. Inability to embrace complexity. Minimizing. ChronicExhaustion. Inability tolisten. Dissociativemoments. Sense ofpersecution. Guilt. Fear. Anger andcynicism. Inability toempathize. Addictions. Grandiosity (Inflated sense ofimportance).

  7. How do we alter our course to reach a healingpath? • Trauma stewardship seeks to increase the quality of being fullypresent: • In ourlives • In the lives ofothers • In ourworld

  8. PracticeSelf-Care How do you relievestress? One a sticky note write something you do to relieve stress Then place it on theposter.

  9. StressStewardship • Qualities of stress resistantpeople • A sense of personalcontrol • Pursuit of personally meaningfultasks • Healthy lifestylechoices • SocialSupport • On a sticky or your note taking sheet, write down something you want to try or do differently to stewardstress. • Be patient: It takes courage to begin the healingprocess. • Practice compassion with yourself and simply take the first step in thestaircase towardhealing

  10. Coming into the PresentMoment • By making contact with our inner selves we find the self diagnosis and self healing weneed. • What are some ways you create space for stillness in yourlife? • Ideas for returning to thestillness: • Breathing • Meditation • mindfulmovement • Prayer

  11. Five Directions

  12. Creating Space for Inquiry Creating Space forInquiry Why am I doing what I amdoing? Is Trauma Mastery a factor forme? Is this working forme?

  13. Why am I doing what I amdoing? “Amid the trials and tribulations of our work, it is possible to lose sight of why we are doing what we aredoing. When we carve out the time to contemplate our intentions, we renew our connection to the needs and desire that have shaped ourexperience. We remember that we can take action to alter the course of ourlives. This will help us to alleviate the sensation of being tossed around in the waves of untrollable and overwhelming events” (p.149).

  14. Is Trauma Mastery a Factor forMe? Trauma mastery is healing from trauma by re-visiting it or recreating situations with the hope of a differentoutcome. Those who have experienced personal trauma may feel the need to support others. This is a way of contributing to more positive outcomes than what they experienced. Although this can be a constructive way of mastering personal trauma, it cannot substitute one’s own recoveryprocess.

  15. Is Trauma Mastery a Factor forMe? Example: Many families chose to stay in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina in order to regain control over their circumstances Trauma mastery can be a factorin: Our activities, our relationships, and our choice ofwork

  16. Is this Working forme? We cannot be so consumed by our work that we are able to support our friends andfamily. It takes courage to admit that our job may no longer be working for us and changes needto bemade.

  17. Choosing OurFocus Askyourself: Where am I putting myfocus? (What are you CHOOSING to focuson?) “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing:.... To choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”(p. 181.) What is my planB? (If you weren’t in your current job/role, what would you bedoing?) “Having a plan B reminds us that what we do is an act of free will.” (p.180.)

  18. Building Compassion andCommunity Compassion must start with having compassion for yourself. By having compassion for others, even when they have wronged us or when we disagree with their thoughts or actions, we can decrease the suffering of both self andothers. Community:Your “microculture” should support you by showering you with encouragement, while holding youaccountable. “Great energy is released when we stop focusing on what we don't have, and when we begin to pay attention to what we do have, and build on this with each other in innovative and created ways.” - Marianne Knuth, founder of Kufunda, a learning village inZimbabwe.

  19. FindingBalance “For many of us committed to repairing the world, it can be a desperate struggle to find a balance between ourselves and our work” (p. 208). Think about your daily routine and what moments you can claim to find balance/restore your energy. Moving energythrough When a threat is perceived (as in a traumatic experience), one of 3 things can happen: fight, flight or immobility (freeze). When the mind and body freeze, a tremendous amount of energy is bottled upinside. “In humans, trauma occurs as a result of the initiation of an instinctual cycle that is not allowed to finish” (p.214).

  20. TRYTHIS: • Thank you forlistening! • Please take a few minutes to read through the list of“Try-Its.” • Choose at least 1 to try rightnow!! • Choose 1 you might encourage one of your teachers todo.

  21. A Daily Practice of CenteringOurselves • Create an intention for your day. • Cultivate moments ofmindfulness. “Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you comealive. And go do that. Because the worlds needs people who’ve come alive” (p.244)

  22. Simply Grateful

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