Creating PRESENCE

A trauma-informed, online organizational approach for creating trauma-responsive organizations.
By Dr. Sandra Bloom

INTRODUCTORY TRACK

Introduction to Presence
The Organizing Values of the Acronym, P.R.E.S.E.N.C.E.
Creating the Presence Process
Creative Presence Discovery Meetings
ing with Self-Assessment
What is the Scientific Method and Why Dow We Emphasize it in Presence?
Defining Terminology
How Common is Trauma
How Mental Models Shape Our world
What is a Paradigm Shift?
Organization as Living Body Not Machine
What is Cultural Safety?
Power and Cultural Safety

Assessing the Physical Environment
Trauma Theory Abbreviated
Attachment and Bonding
Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
Human Stress Response
Stress and Modern Life
Freeze and Dissociation
Individual Recovery from Repetitive Trauma
Caring for the Caregiver
Group Dynamics
How Our Mental Models Sabotage Progress: A Story Activity
Creating a Wellness Plan
Presence Meeting in the Workplace
Creating an Emotional Volume Plan

PARTNERSHIP AND POWER

Reflections on the Use of Power and the Human Body
Introduction the S.E.L.F. Psychoeducational Groups
S.E.L.F. A Nonlinear Organizing Framework
Democracy, the Great Law of Peace, and the U.S. Constitution
Creating Healthy Biocratic Organizations
Leadership /styles
The Dangers of Authoritarianism and Bogus Empowerment
Deep Democracy in the workplace
Democracy and Your Organizational Body
Decision Making Under Stress
Trauma-Informed Milieu Management 101
Creating Healthy Biocratic Organizations
Leadership /styles
The Dangers of Authoritarianism and Bogus Empowerment

Deep Democracy in the workplace
Democracy and Your Organizational Body
Decision Making Under Stress
Trauma-Informed Milieu Management 101
Creating Healthy Biocratic Organizations
Individual Response to Power, Helplessness and the Need for Control
Learning Helplessness in the Workplace
Conflict in the Workplace
Trauma bonding, Brainwashing and the Stockholm Syndrome
The Complex Mental Health Consequences of Human Trafficking
How Democratic is Your Organization?
Presence Meetings in the Workplace

REVERENCE AND RESTORATION

The Germ Theory of Trauma
Presence Through the Lens of Moral Safety
Reflections on the Desire for Revenge
The Issue of Revenge and Punishment in Organizations
Restitution Not Retribution
Values Dialogue for Workgroups and Teams

Trauma and the Nature of Evil
Why Organizational Justice Matters
Human Rights and the Science of Suffering
Change Starts With a Vision
If a Child or Adult Discloses

EMOTIONAL WISDOM AND EMPATHY

The Role of Emotions
What is Empathy?
Responding with Empathy to Psychological Injuries
Loss of Emotional Management
What Emotional Intelligence Means
Emotional Labor
Emotional Contagion

The Role of Emotions
What is Empathy?
Responding with Empathy to Psychological Injuries
Loss of Emotional Management
What Emotional Intelligence Means
Emotional Labor
Emotional Contagion

SAFETY AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Treating the Traumatized Patient and Victims of Violence
Lack of Basic Safety
Assessing Safety
Organizational Communication
The Social Immune System in Organizations
Key Characteristics of Healthy Social Immunity
S.E.L.F. Compass of Recovery
Using S.E.L.F. to Guide Treatment

Using S.E.L.F. to Meet the Smith Family
Setting Healthy Personal Boundaries
The Important Therapeutic Focus on Boundaries
Boundaries in Organizations
Lack of Basic Safety
Social Immune System of Organizations

EMBODIMENT AND ENACTMENT

Collective Disturbance
Restoring a Collective Disturbance
What You Need to Know About Flashbacks
Memory and the Two Sides of the Brain
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Learning to Learn: Double Loop Thinking and Reinventive Change
Living-Learning Organizations
Trauma-organized Systems and Parallel Process
Learned Helplessness
Organizational Learning Disabilities
Toxic Leaders and Petty Tyrants
The Dangers of Silencing Dissent
Organizational Memory and Organizational Amnesia
Miscommunication, Conflict and Organizational Alexithymia
Beyond the Beveled Mirror: Mourning and Recovery from Childhood Maltreatment

The Grief That Dares Not Speak Its Name
Give Sorrow Words
Dealing with Loss in Human Service Organizations
Organizational Grief, Reenactment, Decline
Every Time History Repeats Itself the Price Goes Up
Traumatic Reenactment
Bridging the Black Hole of Trauma: The Evolutionary Significance of the Arts
Traumatic Reenactment and the Theater of Life
Reenactment in Content
What is Therapy? Corrective Emotional Experience
What You Need to Know About Flashbacks
Reenactment in Context
Appreciative Inquiry
Neither Liberty nor Safety

NATURE AND NURTURE

Attachment: Constructing the Social
Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
Betrayal Trauma
Trauma bonding, Brainwashing and the Stockholm Syndrome
By the Crowd They Have Been Broken

The Complex Mental Health Consequences of Human Trafficking
A System Under Siege
Caring for the Caregiver
Appreciative Inquiry Guidelines

CULTURE AND COMPLEXITY

What is therapy? Corrective Emotional and Relational Experience
Does Psychotherapy Work?: Common Factors Research
What Do We Mean by Complex PTSD?
Organizational Culture and the Learning Organization
The Slow Progress of Complex PTSD in the American Health System
Thinking Through Complex Problems: A Checklist
Organizational Complex PTSD
Miscommunication
Organizational Communication
Beyond the Beveled Mirror: Mourning and Recovery From Childhood Maltreatment

Organizational Complex PTSD
Chaos, Complexity and Self-Organization
Organizational Culture and the Learning Organization
Parallel Process and Shadow Groups
Collective Disturbance
Restoring a Collective Disturbance: Some Guidelines
Stages of Change
Chaos, Complexity, Self-Organization
Parallel Process and Shadow Groups

EMERGENCE AND EVOLUTION

Using Complexity Theory to Guide the Treatment of “John”
Chaos, Complexity, Emergence and Self-Organization
Making Room for Dialogue
The Devil’s Advocate

Emergence
By the Crowd They Shall be Broken by the Crowd They Shall be Healed
Post-Traumatic Growth

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