Resilient Sacramento Meeting Summary for September 13, 2016
(For attendees, see attached version of notes)
Welcome and Mindfulness Minute
We practiced vagus nerve breathing exercise. Included handouts on this exercise and other ways that mindfulness calms stress.
Introductions and Celebrations
Action Group Report Backs
Outreach: We have materials (at meeting for people to take away and share) and multiple trainings and information sessions scheduled to get the word out about ACEs
Policy: looking for models in other states and cities for how we might get resources, including funding, here in Sacramento
System-Involved Youth: Continuing to meet and will present on their work, possibly in November to this Resilient Sacramento group.
Trauma-Informed Schools: After a pause, we will begin working together on a mission for Trauma Informed practice in education.
Healthcare: Getting medical students involved
Featured Speaker: Carolyn Curtis
Presented her curriculum, soon to be published, on 7 skill sets that reduce emotional reactivity.
Talk title: “Skills…
Paraprofessionals can help individuals work on many of the skills that therapists do, leaving specialized work to therapists. By identifying skills that paraprofessionals can teach, we can expand the ability to teach people the skills they need to heal from their traumas.
Key issue is to reduce reactivity so that people can do the work necessary for healing from healing from trauma. Marshmallow test is a good, gentle way to introduce people to thinking about/working with their own traumas, without triggering them which can prevent them from engaging in the healing work.
These teachable skills include: self soothing, identifying emotions, empathy (at this point- intro to ACEs, but only once they have the skills to cope with the information), decision-making (the importance of vision guiding decision-making), centering/embracing “personal good fit” physical activity in our lives, intentionally engage a support system, asking for help.
Carolyn’s program is about “growing your brain”- neuroscience shows that we can remap our neural pathways, we just need the skills and experiences to do so.
Please join us on October 11 for our next monthly meeting. Flojaune Griffin Cofer, a reproductive epidemiologist leading efforts on preconception and women’s preventive health in California, will be presenting on the life course theory context of Adverse Childhood Experiences.
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