Trauma & Resiliency - Informed Leadership for Healers, Helpers, and Holders of Spaces
11/1, 11/8, and 11/15 from 10:30a – 12:00p
About the Training
When: November 1, 8 and 15, 2021 | 90-Minute Sessions (10:30a – 12:00p)
Who: Facilitated by Amy Rebekah Chavez, M.A., S.E.P. presented by Soul Bird Consulting and Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health
Where: Virtual
Session 1: 90 min
Title: TI Leadership education and awareness at the micro level: Focus on holistic, embodied, authentic leadership and the TIC Principles of Safety and Trust.
Objectives:
1. Learn trauma-informed care terminology, including the biology/physiology that impacts psychology; breaking down four different kinds of trauma; and unpack the definitions of commonly used, yet commonly misunderstood terminology around safety, and trauma from a somatic lens.
2. Recognize TIC leadership at the micro level focusing on the TIC principles of Safety and Trustworthiness through the lenses of authentic, embodied, and somatic leadership literature and practices.
3. Learn the skills of orienting, cultivating somatic curiosity, and tracking sensations as ways leaders can access their felt senses and appreciate the role that feelings/sensations play in regulating the nervous system, and increasing one’s capacity to lead from a place of centered autonomy and clarity.
Session 2: 90 min
Title: TIC Leadership at the meso level: Focus on interpersonal/ relational model of leadership in relationship to the TIC principles of collaboration/mutuality, peer support, and empowering voice/choice.
Objectives:
1. Understand TIC leadership at the meso/relational level, focusing on the TIC principles of peer support, collaboration/mutuality, and empowerment of voice and choice and the leadership literature around relational, resonant, and responsible leaderhsip.
1. Learn why co-regulation is an effective support intervention and learn The L.O.V.E. Model of self – regulation to use in service to co-regulation for enhanced sustainability and wellbeing of provider, as well as increased tools and capacity to connect with people they serve/support.
2. Learn the symptoms and impact of compassion fatigue and secondary trauma on leaders, and ways leaders can ask for help before they burnout.
Session 3: 90 min
Title: TIC Leadership at the macro level: Focus on inclusive, healing-centered leadership
Objectives:
2. Understand TIC leadership at the macro level, focusing on the TIC principle of awareness of historical trauma, through the lens of inclusive, healing-centered leadership
3. Learn the concepts of historical trauma (and generational trauma) the impact on one’s leadership in the community or wider circles
4. Learn ways leaders can implement ongoing TIC best practices daily
About the Presenter: Amy Rebekah Chavez, M.A., S.E.P.
Amy’s scholarship and practice of trauma - informed leadership has been a holistic exploration through personal, professional, and academic development. She practiced twenty years as a holistic health practitioner, working as a licensed massage therapist, childbirth educator, birth doula, yoga teacher, community herbalist, and group facilitator, all with a committed focus to supporting trauma healing through the body and through the collective, while cultivating skills for resiliency. Advanced trauma educational trainings include Somatic Trauma Resolution, Somatic Experience, Neuro Affective Relational Model, and Community Resilience Model from the Trauma Resource Institute.
In 2016 Amy closed her private practice of one-on-one healing support to pursue a PhD in leadership and change through Antioch University. Inside of this academic container of research and dynamic learning, she has deepened her capacity to support groups and organizations move into more authentic, responsible, and collaborative leadership practices that are rooted in trauma and resilience- informed care. Amy is passionate about supporting the people who are supporting people, especially inside of healing containers. Specifically, Amy is passionate about supporting leaders, and those who support others, in learning to self-regulate their nervous systems in service to co-regulation as a leadership practice. Amy is an avid supporter of all people doing the work to heal from trauma, individual and collective, and she brings warmth, humor, compassion and much passion to the groups that she works with. More of Amy’s story and lineage of learning at www.lovesomatics.org