Toward becoming Trauma-Sensitive: Systemic vs individual adversity

Here it is. We've arrived at some tough topics. In order to become trauma-sensitive (per the The Missouri Model), we have to increase our awareness of historical (i.e., generational) and system-oriented traumas/retraumatization.

This is where trauma-informed meets cultural humility and cultural awareness. And also where, if we continue to hold on to our cultural blindness (and the implicit biases that go along with that), we cannot call ourselves trauma-informed.

On this episode:

We go over how social media allows our awareness of cultural and systemic differences to change rapidly (compared to pre-social media/internet days)

• Definition of historical/generational trauma
• My "Sisyphus Analogy" of systemic privilege and the importance of not conflating individual adversity with system-driven, group-level trauma (i.e., historical/generational trauma).

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Reference links:

Maslow Chart adapted by RYSE Center (2016)

TIP 57

A Pair of ACEs (image and explanation)

Resmaa Menakem's website

"Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence" episode of On Being hosted by Krista Tippet (where I first heard the Resmaa Menakem quote I used--but it is also in his book My Grandmother's Hands)