Here is a bit that I just wrote around the connections of "GTD weekly review", safety and trauma informed care. Trying to do some real cross connecting! Here is an excerpt:
At Hopeworks, we say we work in a trauma informed manner. This means, that we understand that our city and 
our youth have been exposed to massive amounts of toxic stress. As an organization,e daily are bombarded by the same level of stress. We are all in this together. We are all impacted together. We can all be in trying to “survive” together. In seeking to create a healing community, we need safety. We develop the bedrock for growth as we tend to increasing safety at all levels. Noticing and tending to safety allows us–encourages us–to pause, re-regulate, and choose so that we can reflect on what is happening. At Hopeworks, we are learning that we need to take time to review–to review our inboxes, to review our weekly priorities and to review what has happened to us and is happening to us. This is a fundamental exercise of care that we need to do to engage and invite a different and dynamic sense of safety. Yes, the particulars manifest in inboxes, meetings, emails, and priorities and these things all inform the choices we make. Recognizing and owning even the smallest of choices over and over again increases our power over the future–we begin to create a different world, choosing instead of being victimized by it..
GTD is just one of many tools that we are using at Hopeworks to regulate the changing world we live in. In Camden, many of those changes come about because of unjust structures–violence, poverty abuse and neglect. An overflowing inbox seems disconnected from being shot at in the street—until we connect survival patterns common to both. The patterns of behavior that help us survive bullets are the same ones we apply in the office, to our own detriment
Read the full article at:
http://www.hopeworks.org/2014/08/29/safety-first-inbox-overload-and-trauma-informed-care/
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