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Episode 7: Honouring the Trauma, while Empowering, Supporting, and Celebrating the Person: with Paula Audrey Rivero
RISE RESILIENT: Episode 7
I am excited to share this episode of Rise Resilient, where I chat with Paula Rivero, a Social Worker and Trauma Specialist, who brings her incredible energy and heart to this conversation.
Paula is a fun, courageous, energetic, and feisty person who loves life. She brings her zest for life to the Qi Creative team and to her collaborations with children, families, and schools by sharing her awesome.
Paula has a Master’s Degree in Social Work with a clinical specialization and is registered with the Alberta College of Social Work and is also a Certified Trauma Specialist with the National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children. Her experience connecting with traumatized youth in Alberta and with children living with trauma around the world with the Balikbayan Project, have allowed Paula to share the power of love, connection, and play in healing trauma and building resilience.
She has co-authored the International selling book, My Name Is Trauma, and facilitates workshops and training programs about trauma informed care and helping traumatized children heal through play.
The driving force behind her practice is the belief that everyone has talents and strengths that make them awesome and that everyone’s awesome is worth celebrating. She loves with her whole heart and is willing to dare greatly in the journey of life to serve others.
Helping traumatized children heal through creative interventions
About the Book:
My Name is Trauma is an illustrated children's book that creates an opportunity to learn about trauma in a way that is not only educational, but also playful and imaginative. Jon Jon and Paula Rivero are trauma specialists who have used their experience with children, families, and schools living with trauma around the world to help traumatized victims become survivors.
“Trauma The Tiger” is used to represent the effects of trauma in the body and the natural impact that a traumatizing experience can have on a child. The approach helps children externalize a traumatizing experience so that they can normalize its impact on their lives. The concept of FIGHT, FLIGHT, and FREEZE is explained with “Trauma The Tiger” and how the brain and body instinctually default to one of the three states when an event is experienced as traumatic. As a result, “Trauma the Tiger” will be triggered into a state of “trying to protect you”, since the body is in survival mode. Creative interventions that are sensory based are discussed and explored as the best way to regulate and calm emotions, create resilience, and move from victim to survivor.
Connect with Paula and her work:
Qi Creative: Success Coaching for Special Needs
Trauma The Tiger
Balikbayan: From Victims to Survivors
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By Agnes ChenRISE RESILIENT: Episode 7
I am excited to share this episode of Rise Resilient, where I chat with Paula Rivero, a Social Worker and Trauma Specialist, who brings her incredible energy and heart to this conversation.
Paula is a fun, courageous, energetic, and feisty person who loves life. She brings her zest for life to the Qi Creative team and to her collaborations with children, families, and schools by sharing her awesome.
Paula has a Master’s Degree in Social Work with a clinical specialization and is registered with the Alberta College of Social Work and is also a Certified Trauma Specialist with the National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children. Her experience connecting with traumatized youth in Alberta and with children living with trauma around the world with the Balikbayan Project, have allowed Paula to share the power of love, connection, and play in healing trauma and building resilience.
She has co-authored the International selling book, My Name Is Trauma, and facilitates workshops and training programs about trauma informed care and helping traumatized children heal through play.
The driving force behind her practice is the belief that everyone has talents and strengths that make them awesome and that everyone’s awesome is worth celebrating. She loves with her whole heart and is willing to dare greatly in the journey of life to serve others.
Helping traumatized children heal through creative interventions
About the Book:
My Name is Trauma is an illustrated children's book that creates an opportunity to learn about trauma in a way that is not only educational, but also playful and imaginative. Jon Jon and Paula Rivero are trauma specialists who have used their experience with children, families, and schools living with trauma around the world to help traumatized victims become survivors.
“Trauma The Tiger” is used to represent the effects of trauma in the body and the natural impact that a traumatizing experience can have on a child. The approach helps children externalize a traumatizing experience so that they can normalize its impact on their lives. The concept of FIGHT, FLIGHT, and FREEZE is explained with “Trauma The Tiger” and how the brain and body instinctually default to one of the three states when an event is experienced as traumatic. As a result, “Trauma the Tiger” will be triggered into a state of “trying to protect you”, since the body is in survival mode. Creative interventions that are sensory based are discussed and explored as the best way to regulate and calm emotions, create resilience, and move from victim to survivor.
Connect with Paula and her work:
Qi Creative: Success Coaching for Special Needs
Trauma The Tiger
Balikbayan: From Victims to Survivors