{"id":7277,"date":"2016-03-16T08:24:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T12:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/?p=7277"},"modified":"2016-03-16T08:24:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T12:24:11","slug":"starting-where-we-are-trauma-informing-spi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/2016\/03\/starting-where-we-are-trauma-informing-spi\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting where we are: Trauma-informing SPI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Hart and Mikhala Lantz-Simmons will co-facilitate SPI 2016 course <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UTA6G-YSnVA\">Strategies for Trauma-Informed Organizations<\/a>. With STAR and the Summer Peacebuilding Institute, they are inviting more people, policy and structure into trauma-informing our own SPI at EMU.<\/p>\n<p>Following the SPI 2015 course in Strategies for Trauma-Informed Organizations, Barry and Mikhala embarked on a process to apply the course content and learning to our own educational environment. Together, they developed the following definition to represent \u201cour working understanding of a trauma-informed organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to their definition, a trauma-informed organization: Read more\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>has staff that has received training in trauma and that knows how to identify signs of trauma. Staff incorporates a trauma-informed framework into their interactions with clients, meaning that they understand that people have stories and deserve to be treated with compassion and respect;<\/li>\n<li>creates structures so that staff can practice meaningful self-care;<\/li>\n<li>opens space for members of the organization, institution or business to speak about stress;<\/li>\n<li>fosters a sincerely relational environment where everyone&#8217;s dignity is respected;<\/li>\n<li>provides resources for getting help for those that need it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Participants in their 2016 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\/spi\/courses\/strategies-for-trauma-informed-organizations\/\">course<\/a> can look forward to exploring their own organizations with a trauma-informed lens and deepening exposure to how various organizations are working towards integrating trauma awareness into their work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does this mean for SPI?<\/strong> SPI is a container for naturally challenging process of transformational learning about chronic violence and injustices. In an increasingly trauma-informed environment, designated listeners and instructors will be tuned in to ways to follow up to participants encountering traumatic response to material. Part of trauma-informing SPI means addressing systemic violence and injustice within which we are operating; as an institution where the vast majority of faculty and staff is white, we have a lot of work to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Hart and Mikhala Lantz-Simmons will co-facilitate SPI 2016 course Strategies for Trauma-Informed Organizations. With STAR and the Summer Peacebuilding Institute, they are inviting more&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/2016\/03\/starting-where-we-are-trauma-informing-spi\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Starting where we are: Trauma-informing SPI<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1389],"tags":[80,1194,622,625],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-7277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-ezine","tag-barry-hart","tag-cjp","tag-star","tag-summer-peacebuilding-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7278,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277\/revisions\/7278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7277"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=7277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}