Jenée Johnson explains how therapeutic trauma and mindfulness go hand in hand on this 5-minute video.
On this video from the Knowledge 2.0 Convention held in San Francisco in 2019, Jenée Johnson shares her personal journey of doing trauma-informed work inside traumatizing methods, and explains how aware leaders may help heal trauma. Watch the video, or learn the transcript beneath.
San Francisco is within the midst of most likely the worst housing disaster within the nation, and the San Francisco Division of Public Well being is tasked with stewarding the well being of town and county’s inhabitants, and within that we’ve got acknowledged that the way in which we operate is commonly trauma-inducing not solely to the communities that we serve, however to the workforce.
That we are sometimes bureaucratic, siloed, that persons are demoralized, that we aren’t reliable, and that it may be a really imply place to work. And due to that, we’ve got gone on a mission to maneuver from being trauma-inducing to a trauma-informed, and in the end a therapeutic group, and group that’s reliable and has at its core compassion and empathy, and is considerate about the way in which we ship companies.
We ask the important thing query—not, “What’s incorrect with you?” however, “What has occurred?”
We ask the important thing query—not, “What’s incorrect with you?” however, “What has occurred?” And whenever you ask what has occurred it invitations compassion, it invitations taking a look at strengths within the face of adversity.
I used to be an embedded trauma coach inside a maternal adolescent well being ward, and as I used to be delivering the trauma coaching I seen that the workforce, though involved in trauma ideas, didn’t appear to be it had the energy and the bandwidth to actually maintain the necessary work that was forward of us. And it occurred to me that what we would have liked to do was develop into a aware group, to be able to develop into a trauma-informed group. That trauma-informed and therapeutic wanted to exist within a nest of mindfulness.
I went to the trauma chief and I mentioned I do know of a company that has curated mindfulness within the workforce, the Search Inside Your self Management Institute. I went to Search Inside Your self, and thus started the journey of me turning into a educated instructor to ship this system, after which I landed the position of this system innovation chief in mindfulness, trauma, and racial fairness.
It occurred to me that what we would have liked to do was develop into a aware group, to be able to develop into a trauma-informed group.
Mindfulness, trauma, and racial fairness are knit collectively, as a result of a part of what makes our group trauma-inducing is we generally is a very demoralizing place to work, and the individuals who have the worst well being outcomes throughout each knowledge level that we measure are folks of color. And it’s telling us a narrative of how we’ve got but to really, truthfully, grapple with racial fairness, and a part of the problem of grappling with racial fairness is we’d like folks to be robust of their core, we’d like folks to grapple with white fragility, which regularly derails the dialog.
To maneuver the dialog ahead, all of us want to have the ability to be resilient, and mindfulness is the pathway.
