Training offered to create more resilient community [Idaho Mountain Express]

In collaboration with a film screening tonight, Sept. 4, in Hailey (“I Am Maris” at the Community Campus, 6 p.m.) that brings awareness to mental-health challenges and resources, a Community Resiliency Model training will be offered later this month that aims to create a community that can better manage chronic stress or traumatic experiences and support community members who may be experiencing significant stress or trauma.

According to Blaine County School District mental-health therapist Laurie Strand, the body’s central nervous system naturally responds to stress and trauma in its own way. For some people, that response may be depression and isolation; for others, it may be violent outbursts and anxious behaviors. Everyone has a “resiliency zone,” an area in which the body can handle a certain amount of stress and not respond negatively. By using skills taught through the resiliency model, that zone can be increased, allowing a person to manage stress or trauma in a healthier manner through knowledge and understanding of how their central nervous system reacts to stress and trauma and what they can do to manage those natural reactions.
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