Episodios

  • Building Safety and Insight

    Building Safety and Insight
    Jul 10 2024
    Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy analyze various leadership styles and describe circumstances in which some approaches are more effective than others. With President and CEO of Lakeside, Gerry Vassar, they consider attributes and attitudes of an effective leader, especially in times of such intense polarization. Furthermore, they discuss tools to constructively lead an organization using trauma-informed values, what it looks like to recognize and respond to traumatic stress in the workplace, and the positive impact of creating a human-centered, trauma-responsive organization.
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  • Organizations as Living Systems

    Organizations as Living Systems
    Jul 3 2024
    Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy define systems thinking and the various ways that it challenges our current approach to organizational operation. Identifying enemies of systems thinking, which are commonly found in organizations trying to function as machines, they also provide key signs to recognize systems problems. In these instances, they note the necessity of complexity management skills to deter the oversimplified and “quick fix” solutions that often end up making the problems worse. Finally, they pinpoint the various vulnerabilities of humans to group influences and why it is so important to support constant feedback loops on all levels of an organization.
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  • Relationships and Recovery

    Relationships and Recovery
    Jun 26 2024
    Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy unpack the multiple effects of trauma and adversity, contrasted with how true psychological health manifests, in individuals and relationships. On the topic of healing, they explore the idea of post traumatic growth and the integration of past experiences as a key factor in moving forward after trauma, from an individual standpoint to the country as a whole. We are capable of transforming trauma on every level, as long as we are willing to look at it. Finally, they look at trauma transformation in the workplace, providing an overview of Creating Presence values and how they guide leaders and staff to create a space in which moral maturity, healing, and growth are not only possible, but seen as assets to the community.
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  • Big Risks + Little Brains = Big Brains + Big Problems

    Big Risks + Little Brains = Big Brains + Big Problems
    Jun 19 2024
    Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy explain the impact of attachment trauma and how our early life experiences shape our long term health and wellbeing. With this in mind, they provide an overview of the ACEs study and draw connections between trauma, behavior, and how difficulties of one individual can translate into collective problems in the workplace. Ultimately, they use the role of emotions in the human experience and our fundamental need to belong to argue against a machine-based model for organizational life, citing it as a barrier to creating safe and productive communities.
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  • Organizations Are Not Machines

    Organizations Are Not Machines
    Jun 12 2024
    Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy offer a biological understanding of the human stress response and explain the significance of this knowledge, particularly for leaders, in our modern world and workplace. Unpacking the history of our current paradigm that treats organizations as machines, they use the body as a metaphor to reveal that our organizations are actually living systems, and treating them as such would effectively promote and sustain individual and social health. Finally, they dive into some of the criticisms of trauma-informed practice and offer insights into the progress they witness in working with organizations using the PRESENCE model.
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  • What's Happened to You?

    What's Happened to You?
    Jun 5 2024
    Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy dive into the principles and practices underpinning Creating PRESENCE, their newest intervention to help leaders and their organizations integrate trauma-informed practice. In this episode, Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy explain the importance of shifting from, What’s wrong with you to What’s happened to you? and the implications of this perspective change for our systems of care. Furthermore, they elaborate on the need for trauma-informed leaders and how Creating PRESENCE provides skills and guiding values through which leaders can effectively build a culture of safety and trauma-responsive practice in their organizations.
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  • Encore PART 1: SAFETY & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY – THE JUSTICE SYSTEM

    Encore PART 1: SAFETY & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY – THE JUSTICE SYSTEM
    May 29 2024
    In the first segment, Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy will expand the definition of the word “safety” and discuss how the establishment and maintenance of safety is not just an individual issue but a social responsibility of organizations, communities, and whole societies. In our present culture, there is an expectation that basic physical safety is the domain of the criminal justice system. As our justice system – especially prisons – have grown, it is arguably less safe now than even a couple of decades ago. And for many people in our culture, there is no justice. In the second segment, we focus on ideas around trauma-informed justice systems by engaging in a conversation with Dr. Stephanie Covington who, through her many publications and training programs, has been involved in gender-responsive and trauma-informed services in the justice system for over twenty-five years. In the third segment, we have a conversation with two other activists in the justice system, Robert Reed and EL Sawyer. Mr. Reed is currently serving as the Executive Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, after thirty years as a prosecutor for the Department of Justice. In his current role, Mr. Reed is endeavoring to help the justice system in Pennsylvania become trauma-informed through his work with Heal PA, whose mission is to lead and support Pennsylvania in becoming trauma-informed and healing-centered by providing resources, advocacy, and education via a multidisciplinary and multisectoral approach. EL Sawyer is a filmmaker and activist who draws on his own experience with incarceration to help move the justice system to become more humane and therapeutic.
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  • Encore: PART 2: PARTNERSHIP & POWER: THE TRAUMATIZED WORKPLACE

    Encore: PART 2: PARTNERSHIP & POWER: THE TRAUMATIZED WORKPLACE
    May 22 2024
    In the first segment of the broadcast, Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy will discuss some of the findings of Dr. Bloom’s 2010 book, Destroying Sanctuary: The Crisis in Human Service Delivery Systems, the first book to thoroughly explore what happens in stressed workplace environments that turned out to be a predictor of the post-COVID workplace world. In the second segment, Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy welcome Dr. Jennifer Freyd, a psychology researcher, educator, and author. Her research on betrayal trauma, institutional betrayal, and institutional courage™ have revolutionized the field of trauma psychology and the practice of institutional community-building. In the third segment, Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy engage with members of organizations actually using Creating Presence. Carol Austin, the Executive Director of First Up in Philadelphia, and Jennifer Lyristis, Manager of Professional and Program Development at WellSpan Philhaven, will share their experiences around power and partnership and will describe some ways in which using Creating Presence has enabled their organizations to confront the current epidemic problems of “quiet quitting” and burnout.
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