Creating Safety and Well-Being

Shifting our perspective and being curious is the first step in understanding the situation of the person you are interacting with.

This can lead to other useful questions: “What’s right with you?” "What did you learn?" This can be helpful in supporting people to identify the positive actions they are already taking in difficult situations.

As people identify what has been working for them and where they might need support the conversation could lead into:  “What strengths did you discover that you didn’t know you had? What would be most helpful to you at this time?”

The goal is to support people’s existing strengths and strategies for moving forward, to help them tap into their own wisdom - to empower, not rescue. What we may believe to be the best path forward may not necessarily be what will be most useful or helpful to the person we are talking to.

Module Purpose | Grounding Intentions | Rock in Your Shoe | What is Trauma? | Vicarious or Secondary Trauma | Trauma and the Brain and Body | Lived Experiences | Responses to Carrying Trauma | Rock in Your Shoe Reflection | Shifting Our Perspectives | Creating Safety and Well-Being | Supporting Healing