Build communities of truth and safety.

Trauma is real and leaders who understand the effects of trauma in their own lives and in the lives of others are less likely to be sabotaged by trauma and are more likely to lead in ways that turn out to be healthy and life-giving.

Conversation Overview

• Learn to listen
• Encourage authenticity
• Learn from survivors
• "Caring for" vs "Taking care of"
• Offer a safe place
• Medicines

Resources:

• The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog
• The Body Keeps the Score
• Healing Developmental Trauma
• Adverse Childhood Experiences Study – Wikipedia
• Take The ACE Quiz – NPR
• How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime [video]
• An Everyone Culture

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