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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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