Tools and Tactics for Post-Traumatic Growth: Managing Stress, Loss & Trauma

Our world and workplace may be entering a post-COVID work phase, but traumatic if not crisis events continue to make their heart-aching presence – whether a beloved colleague’s debilitating stroke, an unexpected late-stage cancer diagnosis, a colleague’s suicide, or a “going postal” situation.  Of course, other forms of loss – from downsizing to quiet quitting and disconnecting with remote employees.  

This program will help all levels of employees understand the importance of and engage with grief work and recognize the dangers and “growth opportunities” in separation and loss, trauma, and crisis.  There’s a new mission-critical!  (Sending one person to EAP may not address group stress, conflict, and grief... along with the need for community growth.)  All may need to face the pain of a hazardous present along with embracing past emotional echoes to recognize and defuse the personal crisis and trauma triggers.  The psycho-ecological payoff:  building inner strength, trust, and creative-collaborative bonds!

What is an organization or company to do?  
One key is helping employees, supervisors, and managers understand and grieve the bio-psycho-social complexities of critical incident pain and stress.  Another vital factor is recognizing the “dangers” and harnessing the learning and performance “growth opportunities” in separation and loss, trauma, and crisis.  

Trauma and transition states often compel an honest individual and/or team to self-inventory of strengths and vulnerabilities; a willingness to think and act anew may quickly emerge.  Individual and group/team grief and growth work are healing and revitalizing; with proper guidance, this turning point can spur strategic sharing and enhance cohesion and cooperation.

• Two Critical Incident Stories:  Medical Crises and Suicide
• Developing Natural SPEED:  Stress Resilience & Mind-Body Agility
• The Art of Saying “NO” and Vital Lesson of the Four “R” s
• Psychological Hardiness and Eight “F” s of Harnessing Loss and Change
• Dad’s Mid-Life Crisis and Our Courageous Conversation
• Early Trauma and Grief:  A Mystical-Like Discovery
• Academic Flash dancing and Six “R” s of Burnout Recovery
• Passion Power Model
• Healing Humor and Confronting the Intimate FOE
• Open, Mutual, and Exploratory Teaming

Transforming Grief Work and Crisis will set individuals, teams, and organizations as a whole on the path of recovery and resilience, on a journey of Post-Traumatic Growth!

All personnel levels – from front-line employees to all levels of management will gain skills, tools, and strategies for - 
1) identifying stress and burnout warning signs and
2) positively developing stress and conflict, grief and change resilience skills in both themselves and in colleagues, team members, and those they supervise/manage. 

Clearly, individuals, teams, and the organization as a whole benefit when a work culture is more stress-resilient and focused, open healing, collaboration, and FUN!