[1]<\/a> Traumagenic: an adjective describing an event or situation that has the potential to generate a trauma response (in body, brains, beliefs, behaviors) in individuals and collectives.<\/p>\n Systems and structures (land, legal, health, housing, electoral and educational systems and organizational hierarchies, for example) disproportionately disadvantage, threaten or exclude one identity group (or multiple groups) and <\/em>empower the dominant identity group(s), typically rooted in historical legacies of power and domination (colonization, enslavement, patriarchy, genocide, anthropocentrism).<\/p>\n Behaviors that sometimes happen as one-offs and often become patterns of interaction between particular individuals or within group culture.<\/p>\n *While these might happen between two individuals, they happen within the systems and structures listed above. When these permeate an organization, they become part of the structure\/ecology.<\/p>\n \u2022 Dignity violations* Painful events or patterns unfolding in organizations or institutions that are often inadequately addressed by the organization, yet touch on some of our deepest human existential concerns.<\/p>\n \u2022 Institutional betrayal While imaginations often go to extreme headline events (war, genocide, continuous physical violence) in conversations about trauma, even behaviors that might compare as everyday nuisances can add up to create the same physical and emotional impacts on bodies, brains, beliefs and behaviors. This build-up can create an environment of threat, disconnection, fragility, powerlessness and distrust. It can also lead to critical pauses, restoration and life-giving social change initiatives.<\/strong><\/p>\n Conflict is an energy that can be expressed positively or destructively.<\/p>\n \u2022 can be a force to identify needs. When conflict plays out in destructive or violent ways, it can harm individuals, relationships, organizations and the wider system.<\/p>\n Forms of destructive conflict – violence<\/strong> – can range from harmful self-talk or self-harm to gossip and derogatory comments between individuals to yelling and bullying behaviors within groups to silencing, exclusion, disempowerment, displacement and threats that impact large numbers of people and the environment. Systemic or structural violence can be harder for people to see or identify, though it impacts individuals, relationships, organizations and the planet. Physical violence \u2013 including its more hidden forms in terms of intimate and domestic violence \u2013 is one of the most obvious forms of destructively expressed conflict.<\/p>\n General systems theory suggests every individual component of every system influences and is influenced by every other component.<\/strong> One way to visualize this is through a nested model.<\/p>\n What we do at the individual and relational level affects the whole system.<\/p>\n What happens at the macro or system level affects relationships and individuals.<\/p>\n Restorative justice practices <\/strong>offer ways to address harm and express conflict energy in ways that are not destructive \u2013 ways to protect, restore and enhance the system at multiple levels.<\/p>\n This model draws on Maire Dugan\u2019s nested model of conflict that showed 4 levels (issue-specific, relational, structural-subsystem, structural-system), though we have used different language here. Dugan\u2019s original article can be accessed at https:\/\/emu.edu\/cjp\/docs\/Dugan_Maire_Nested-Model-Original.pdf<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Learn more about the STAR (Strategies for Trauma and Resilience)<\/a> trainings through the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. We offer two levels of training<\/a> as well as customized training for your organization or business<\/a>.<\/p>\n Contact STAR today<\/a> to see how we can help you understand trauma and find resilience personally and within your institution or organization.<\/p>\n ~prepared by Katie Mansfield<\/a> 2019, lead STAR trainer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many traumagenic systems, situations and events are routinely minimized, though they generate frustration, pain and profound bodily impacts in everyday life \u2013 and affect different bodies in different ways. Below we name a few of these traumagenic \u2013 or potentially traumatic \u2013 systems, situations or events. 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Inter-personal harm<\/h3>\n
\u2022 Micro-aggressions*
\u2022 Bullying\/abusive behavior*
\u2022 Harassment*
\u2022 Preferential treatment\/exclusion*
\u2022 Gossip*<\/p>\nInstitutional and organizational harms<\/h3>\n
\u2022 Silencing
\u2022 Lack of transparency
\u2022 Death or illness of colleagues
\u2022 Job uncertainty
\u2022 Leadership changes and gaps<\/p>\nConflict and harm<\/h2>\n
Conflict:<\/h3>\n
\u2022 can prompt our best creative and transformative actions.
\u2022 can drive life-giving change at multiple levels of the systems we inhabit.
\u2022 does not always mean someone experiences harm.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2019\/10\/star-nested-model-153x300.jpg\")
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