Enhancing Public Health Leadership with Trauma-Responsive Skills

In the absence of mitigation, trauma will discharge disguised as behaviors that further amplify harm and drive disconnection:  Anger. Aggression. Apathy. Avoidance. Disdain. Disengagement. Self-injury. 

But the fun and screams and laughter and joy that surround deliberately created scary moments during the Month Of Halloween are different from the swamp of Fear and uncertainty we've collectively endured.

Our processing may look a little … weird … for a while.

And humor helps.

Learning to connect and intentionally hold space in a manner that responds to and mitigates the trauma (Big T or little t) that shows up in others is an essential skill we all are capable of learning.

There’s value in leaning in when people are angry and hurting – value for them and value for us.