Transforming Trauma: How to do this work and sustain

Join Cascade Pacific Action Alliance (CPAA) and our regional partners for a workshop with Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, founder and director of The Trauma Stewardship Institute. Laura's workshop offers a practical, holistic approach to caring for ourselves as we do the essential work of caring for others and for our planet.

When: September 24, 2019, from 10:00am to 2:00pm

Where: Lacey Community Center, 6729 Pacific Ave SE, Olympia, WA 98503

What: A two-hour workshop (10:00am-12:00pm) followed by an opportunity to network (12:00-12:45pm) and an optional Community CarePort meeting (12:45-1:45pm). The two-hour workshop will focus on:

• Setting the Context for Cumulative Toll: We will discuss the context for how a cumulative toll arises and how we’ll engage in this conversation. We’ll discuss some principles that may be helpful in taking in the information.
• The Trauma Exposure Response: These are the specific manifestations of cumulative toll. From numbing to anger to cynicism we’ll dive deeply into how one is impacted individually and collectively.
• How to Sustain Individually: We’ll look at very concrete strategies for how to create sustainability for oneself individually.
• How to Sustain Collectively: We’ll broaden the conversation by looking at how to create sustainability for oneself within a larger context as well as how to create larger organizational, institutional, and movement-level change.

About the Speaker:

Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, founder and director of The Trauma Stewardship Institute and author of Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others, has worked directly with trauma survivors for more than three decades. She has worked locally, nationally, and internationally. Laura is known as a pioneer in the field of trauma exposure.

Laura is on the advisory board of ZGiRLS, an organization that supports young girls in sports. She is a founding member of the International Transformational Resilience Network, which supports the development of capacity to address climate change. Laura also served as an associate producer of the award-winning film A Lot Like You, and was given a Yo! Mama award in recognition of her work as a community-activist mother. Laura’s new book, The Age of Overwhelm: Strategies for the Long Haul is now available for order.