Self-Attuning to Emotional Activation
Tending to our own Wounds While Supporting the Healing of Others
🗓️ March 1, 8, 15 and 22, 2023
⏰ 3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. PT / 6:00 p.m. –7:15 p.m. ET (view your time zone)
What is this?
Join us for four sessions designed for service providers who want to engage in reflective inquiry on how the experiences we’ve lived through impacts and informs our ability to provide responsive [school] mental health services for others. Grounded attunement to the wellness of our colleagues, communities and the people we serve as they recover and renew after a crisis requires our own ability to care for ourselves. It is difficult to provide support and guidance after times of crisis if we don’t have the space to notice and inquire into the ways our personal unhealed trauma surfaces when witnessing and providing care for the healing of others.
Why are we offering this?
Our ability to provide trauma-informed care and establish healthy therapeutic relationships is greatly predicated on where we are at in our own ability to regulate and know our own activators.
Without the space, support and tools to move beyond the harms of our own lived experience, it is quite possible that we lead with our own emotional interests rather than that of the greater good. Without acknowledging, reframing and healing our own hurts, as service providers, we run the risk of internalizing the behaviors and needs of others, miss important signs, operate from a compromised parasympathetic nervous system or find ourselves stuck in a self-defeating stress response such as fight, flight, freeze, fawn or countertransference.
These heavy and pivotal knowings require a brave space to examine, unpack and explore.
What will this feel like?
Explore with SCRR and a roster of expert guest clinical supervisors the ways in which we might transform harm and hurt into emotionally corrective experiences for ourselves and our communities, promote our relational interdependence and cultivate the conditions within our school communities that allows us to be both human AND boundaried.
Each session will spotlight a guest who will share their own attunement and activation strategies and participants will engage in peer reflective supervision.
Intended Audience
- Service providers who work in schools (school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, case managers, mentors, therapists, restorative justice coordinators, retention coordinators, advisors, deans)
- Service providers who work with or for school cultures and climates (e.g., coordinators, CBO partners, consultants, program staff)
Note: this program is specifically designed for those who have or are experiencing big things or crisis and are involved or charged with leading a school or community through and after that big thing or crisis (e.g., you live in a community who experienced a tornado and are involved with service providing while going through the tornado aftermath yourself).
To Register and Find Out More Go to: https://bit.ly/SCRR_Self-Attuning23
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