With a lot struggling happening on the planet that’s worthy of our compassion and engagement, it’s straightforward to turn out to be overwhelmed by it at the same time as now we have the need to stay engaged in a constructive approach. Secondary traumatic stress, put merely, is the stress we’re uncovered to after we work together with different individuals’s stress, and it manifests at each a person and societal degree. When not managed successfully, it wears us down and diminishes our capability to contribute in a constructive approach.
About Our Visitor: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky is the founder and director of The Trauma Stewardship Institute and creator of Trauma Stewardship: An On a regular basis Information to Caring for Self Whereas Caring for Others and The Age of Overwhelm. She is a widely known pioneer within the subject of trauma publicity and has labored regionally, nationally, and internationally for greater than three a long time.
Key Topics:
0:00: Introduction
1:35: Laura’s private expertise
4:10: How secondary trauma exhibits up for individuals
6:45: Martyrdom and the duty of organizations to create sustainable environments
10:30: Concern with how trauma is normalized inside communities
14:10: Internalized oppression and overwhelm within the broader tradition
17:40: The broader systemic context and the ineffectiveness of burning your self out
21:50: The need of taking breaks
26:40: Learn how to really feel okay taking time to unplug from discourse on charged matters
33:35: Differentiating between spheres of management and acknowledging grief
37:45: Discovering methods to remain hopeful
40:35: What Laura is grateful for and careworn about
44:35: Recap
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