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Thursday, July 27, 2023 10:00 AM -12:00 PM Eastern Time
Peer debriefing is a powerful tool that can help direct service workers to identify their strengths, find meaning and build resilience to secondary trauma. In this interactive workshop, participants will discuss the benefits of strengths-based peer debriefing as a means of learning, growth, and gaining resilience.
Participants will learn about the concept of emotional co-regulation, its importance in peer support, and how skills for emotional co-regulation can enhance resilience to secondary trauma in teams. Participants will learn reflective strengths-based practices they can use with peers or individually to find meaning in stressful or traumatic experiences at work. Through pair and small group discussions, participants will practice using these skills in a supportive environment.
About the Presenter
Casey Chanton, LMSW (He/Him) is a Psychotherapist who works with Trauma Informed Practice, Curriculum Design, and Training Facilitation. He recently served as the Director of Healing Centered Learning at Drexel University Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice (CNSJ) / Healing Hurt People, a hospital-based violence intervention program that has cared for thousands of violently injured youth and young adults in Philadelphia over the past decade. In this role, Casey coordinated CNSJ’s Healing Centered Learning Program, which provides trauma-informed, vocational training for young adults impacted by violence. Casey was the founding Assistant Director of Training and Development at Penn Center for Community Health Workers (PCCHW). He currently works as a therapist primarily serving LGBTQIA+ youth and adults. Casey received a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
About the Summer Session Themes
After learning skills for workplace resilience - skills that help counter burnout, help prevent secondary traumatic stress, and help strengthen your work within your team and with those to whom you provide service - how do you sustain these skills? This Summer Series is themed each month around one of the letters in CHIME - Connectedness, Hope & optimism, Identity, Meaning, and Empowerment. Using CHIME can help you keep track of your own skills and check in with yourself on how you are doing.
Supported in part by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health
This Resiliency Series is specially offered for community members and organizations who through their work are First Responders or are involved with those affected by the Substance Use Crisis in Philadelphia. The stress of caring for others can affect our bodies and minds. This free virtual series is here to support our workplaces and community and is open to anyone.
For information on Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS), visit #TakeCarePHL at https://www.philadelphiaaces.org/sts. Visit the Events page to sign up for notifications of future events.
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