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Trauma Stewardship: How to Do This Work and Sustain

Laura van Dernoot Lipsky on
Trauma Stewardship: How to Do This Work and Sustain

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This live webinar and discussion will offer practical tools to help us sustain, individually and collectively, in the face of the secondary trauma and overwhelm in our work, the pandemic, and the current national focus on systemic racism.  Topics will include how vicarious trauma and overwhelm manifest as well as strategies for navigating what is unfolding. There will be time for discussion so please come with questions or topics you’d like to cover.

Learning Objectives

  1. Raise awareness and respond to the cumulative toll on those who are exposed to the suffering, hardship, crises, or trauma of humans, other living beings or the planet itself.
  2. Help others develop a deeper understanding of trauma exposure and the tools for reconciling such exposure, so folks can do their work sustainably.
  3. Teach people in a broad base of fields how to create a sustainable individual and collective culture. 

Who should attend: Civil service and contracted staff (clinical and non-clinical) in San Francisco Behavioral Health Services and the Department of Public Health

Laura van Dernoot Lipsky is the founder and director of The Trauma Stewardship Institute and author of Trauma Stewardship and The Age of Overwhelm. Widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of trauma exposure, she has worked locally, nationally, and internationally for more than three decades. Much of her work is being invited to assist in the aftermath of community catastrophes - whether they are fatal storms or mass shootings. Simultaneously, she has long been active in community organizing and movements for social and environmental justice and has taught on issues surrounding systematic oppression, structural supremacy, and liberation theory.

 

Sponsored by Behavioral Health Services, San Francisco Department of Public Health
For more information or ADA Accommodations contact Michael Barack at michael.barack@sfdph.org