A Live Question and Answer Session with Mary Vicario, Founder of Finding Hope Consulting  Trauma informed care and people living with dementia  To learn more go to www.growingresilienceohio.org To reach Mary go to www.findinghopeconsulting.com 

A Live Question and Answer Session with Mary Vicario, Founder of Finding Hope Consulting  How do you teach trauma treatment? To learn more go to www.growingresilienceohio.org To reach Mary go to www.findinghopeconsulting.com 

A Live Question and Answer Session with Mary Vicario, Founder of Finding Hope Consulting  How do you define trauma?  To learn more go to www.growingresilienceohio.org To reach Mary go to www.findinghopeconsulting.com 

A Live Question and Answer Session Sarah Buffie, Founder of Soul Bird Consulting.  What are ways I can self-sooth by activating the vagus nerve?  To learn more go to www.growingresilienceohio.org To reach Sarah go to www.soulbirdconsulting.info

A Live Question and Answer Session Sarah Buffie, Founder of Soul Bird Consulting  How does prayer help a person be more resilient? To learn more go to www.growingresilienceohio.org To reach Sarah go to www.soulbirdconsulting.info

Mary Vicario, Founder of Finding Hope Consulting, discusses the connection between storytelling and resilience. Storytelling is something that humans have done since the beginning of time. Mary shares how neuroscience helps to unlock why humans love stories, and how storytelling can support the growth of resilience. To learn more go to www.growingresilienceohio.org To reach Mary go to www.findinghopeconsulting.com 

Mary Vicario, Founder of Finding Hope Consulting, talks about the Five Resilience Factors - a powerful way to organize our efforts and help a person build a big full life and thrive, not just survive. Family members, teachers, staff, and others who care about the person can help grow these resilience factors. Research shows that there are five things we can build up - five factors that can build resilience and help people bounce back and recover.  We can pay attention to these, and notice...

Join in the moment with Sarah Buffie as she guides you through the practice: Notice, Accept, Invite. 

Sarah Buffie, Founder of Soul Bird Consulting, shares a practice she uses to deepen the relationship with self. In order to show up in the lives of people that we care for and connect with, Sarah uses Notice, Accept, Invite to step into the moment by simply identifying feelings, body sensations, and thoughts and accepting these as they are, while also inviting support and care for any big emotions.

"How can I help??" It's a question that a lot of us spend time trying to answer. Sarah invites us to consider the answer to this question begins by turning inward. When we spend time first on deepening our understanding of a person and a situation before we go to fix, help, save, or plan, our approach can be more empathetic and effective. In this podcast she offers five simple ways to dig deeper, ask critical questions, and get curious about ourselves -- before jumping to strategies or tools.

How do we show up for those who have experienced trauma? One of the ways we have found to join people on their healing journey is by shifting from blame and shame and offering connection instead. Shifting to connection isn’t always easy. The Safety Script is a simple way to introduce this shift to connection into your vernacular. Listen to Mary Vicario's explanation on what The Safety Script is and how it can be used in everyday moments. To learn more go to...

This show is all about storytelling from the perspective of a therapist who helps people process developmental and relational trauma. You’ll hear from LaShanda Sugg, who calls herself a “Sherpa” or a guide who empowers people down the path of healing through active listening. She gives tips on how to create space for people’s stories to be heard by engaging the five senses, using a mindfulness practice, and how she cues in on body language as a way of being curious.  But ultimately, LaShanda...

Learning new approaches or concepts can come with a jolt. This conversation with Rachel is about what has surprised her, her doubts along the way, and what has emerged from her work in trauma responsive care. Rachel talks about Trauma Informed Biographical Timelines - a facilitated way to hear the story of someone who has experienced trauma, and build empathy as a team. More resources about the timeline process here:  Trauma Informed Biographical Timelines: Approaches for Intervention by...

Julie talks about how harnessing the strengths of people, especially people in community has been an ah-ha moment for her. She believes that focusing on building a person's strengths and helping them tap into community can be the most important part of supporting people on a path to healing from trauma.  Julie Herrmann MS, LPCC-S, is the Assistant Director of Special Populations and Resilience Worker Supervisor.

What does self-care mean to you?  Ilea Scott's role is to offer self-care techniques to families with trauma histories as she walks alongside them      as they explore what their gifts are, connect to community.  Ilea Scott is a unique addition to the Peer Support Partners at Families Connected of Clermont County working in the Resilience Project. Her history with trauma provides her with a deep sense of empathy and compassion for the families she supports, as well as a firm belief that...

When all seemed lost, how do people begin to heal from trauma? Are there times when support services like social workers and case managers have gotten in the way of healing? On this episode we talk with Maggie and Cindi, who remind us that the journey is not always a straight line.  Maggie Center has been the Resiliency Care Manager with Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services for the past two years of the Resilience Project. Her professional background is  rooted in offering trauma...

The ways that we can be present with people on their healing journey is often determined by our mindset and approach. What happens when we shift our focus away from “fixing” a person, to recognizing and building their resilience? Rachel Sorg and Gretchen Behimer talk about the pitfalls of services, and how to steer away from doing the work of "fixing" to the work of connecting by growing a person's resilience. Gretchen Behimer,  LISW-S, has been working with children and families for over 25...

There is a growing urgency to address trauma in our society today. How do we as services and partners in healing do it in a way that honors a person's story and grows a person's resilience? What happens when the work put into grow resilience -- doesn’t stick? This conversation with Jo Krippenstapel gets to the heart of these questions, and offers a ton of wisdom and insight into the work of trauma informed care.  Jo Krippenstapel offers facilitation, consultation, and training focused on...

What does it look like/sound like to offer trauma-responsive and culturally-aware supports to people and families? What does it look like/sound like when we miss the boat on this? Why does it matter? T. Dean Swartz has worked in the disabilities field since 1985, in both the county and state systems.  He has experience in recreation; residential; educational and vocational/day habilitation settings.  During his time in the field, Dean co-developed the CORE values approach at the Clermont...

Sarah talks about growing resilience - and how it happens in relationship. She calls it relational resilience and says that along her own learning journey she has found that the true entry point to the work - begins when we begin to notice in what shows up in our bodies, and cultivate a sense of safety in ourselves so that we can bring that to others. Sarah believes that this mind body connection work done in relationship with others is what's next in the work of trauma informed care. Sarah...

All people need relationship.  To feel safe, loved, and connected. In this conversation, Matt talks about his work over the past 30 years to promote care in caregiving. You'll hear a lot about what he learned from one of his earliest mentors, John McGee, and how McGee's "Gentle Teaching" principles are still relevant in the work of trauma informed care today.  More on John McGee's work: https://gentleteaching.com/us/ Matt Briner has worked in the developmental disability services world...

In the 1990s, Vincent Felitti, head of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Kaiser Permanente, conducted interviews with people who had left an obesity clinic. He discovered that a majority of the 286 people he interviewed had experienced childhood sexual abuse. The research went on to find that a person’s cumulative ACEs score, or traumatic experiences in childhood, had a direct adverse health outcome in adulthood. This conversation with Lori is for people providing support - interested...