People, performance and the responsibility to get the balance right. What if the biggest barrier to a trauma-informed organisation isn’t a lack of training,…
Read more →There is a sentence we hear far too often in organisations: “That’s the process.” Sometimes it is said as an explanation. Sometimes as reassurance.…
Read more →Something recently written about suicide amongst police officers raises a difficult but important question about the impact of trauma at work. For anyone who…
Read more →“We’re just really busy at the moment.” How many times have we heard that? How many times have we said it ourselves? There are…
Read more →Workplaces are talking about wellbeing more than ever. We have wellbeing days, EAPs, mental health training, resilience workshops, supervision, wellbeing policies and increasingly sophisticated…
Read more →A few months ago, I wrote about grief. About the different kinds of grief we experience throughout our lives. The loss of relationships, friendships,…
Read more →Every day, someone working in a blue light service walks into work knowing they may witness the worst day of somebody else’s life. We…
Read more →Trauma-informed practice has become one of the most frequently used phrases across health, social care, education and public services. And that’s a good thing.…
Read more →When people ask me why trauma-informed practice matters, my answer is simple. Because the cost of not being trauma-informed is far greater than most…
Read more →Every organisation has values. They’re written on websites.Printed on office walls.Repeated in meetings. But over the years, I’ve learnt that culture isn’t built by…
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