Revisiting our Commitments

In this module, we take up our four key commitments (see Principles Module) to serve as a guide toward embracing a trauma-informed approach. This guide intends to help us to adopt a healing perspective, focused on developing supportive and transformative experiences with ourselves and with each other.

When we assume a trauma-informed approach we:

1. Acknowledge that trauma occurs at all levels (within people, families, organizations, and communities) and can significantly impact people’s lives. 

2. Seek to understand and respond to this trauma so we can minimize its impact in the work we do and nurture healing transformation. 

Engaging from a  trauma-informed perspective is a way of being and doing. Our role is not necessarily to heal but to facilitate healing. Therefore, we must be aware that trauma exists on all levels, beginning with our own. Because of this, we then are conscious of promoting healing on all levels: individual, professional, organizational, and community level. 

From this perspective, we have an opportunity to be intentionally active in promoting growth on a personal, professional, and community level.

Module Purpose | Revisiting Our Commitments | 3 E’s of Trauma | 4 R’s Key Assumptions | Guiding Principles | Create Conditions for All to Thrive | Final Thoughts