Title: Resiliency in the Workplace

Outline:

Our community has faced significant challenges recently, including the Camp Fire and its aftermath, subsequent fires, and the ongoing impact of COVID-19. These challenges manifest in our local workforce through issues like low productivity, a lack of empathy, burnout, reduced motivation, absenteeism, and high turnover rates. This training aims to provide the tools needed to create self-regulation and improve how we react to the day-to-day challenges in and out of the workplace. We'll introduce the Community Resilience Model (CRM)® and its Six Wellness Skills. Participants will leave the training equipped with simple yet potent techniques to enhance control and resilience in the face of adversity.

Learning Outcomes:

As a result of this training, trainees will

• Understand the impact of trauma on human beings: physically, emotionally, and psychologically.
• Acquire practical techniques to enhance their sense of control and resilience, fostering an ability to navigate adverse situations effectively.
• Have a broader view of how trauma affects our workforce and the people they serve in the community, enhancing understanding, empathy, and communication.

Duration: 3 hours

Dates: 5/13 and 5/20  9am - 12pm

Training Outline:

This comprehensive de-escalation training addresses the challenges business owners and employees encounter when individuals facing homelessness and mental health challenges enter their premises or interact with their clients.

The training emphasizes a human-centric approach, fostering empathy and understanding. Through role-playing scenarios and real-life applications, participants will be equipped to create a safe and inclusive environment, ensuring positive interactions with distressed individuals.

Trainees will:

• Gain insights into community stressors, trauma biology, and crisis interactions.
• Recognize triggers, reactions, and apply do's and don'ts in initial assistance.
• Heightened self-awareness and learn resiliency skills to keep a safe workplace environment.
• Master six-step de-escalation, practice reflection, and create workplace response protocols.

Date & Time: Mondays 5/13 & 5/20  - 9 am to 12 pm

Training Hours: Two 3-hour sessions – 6 hours total

Location: Skyway Center, Butte College,  2480 Notre Dame Blvd, Chico

Our Trainers:

Reidun Waddell is a licensed clinical social worker and a senior program manager at Butte County Behavioral Health Crisis Services. With over ten years in Crisis Services, she excels in crisis intervention, LPS 5150 designation and suicide prevention training, community educational sessions, and Non-Violent Crisis Intervention skills.

Emiliano Jimenez-Cornejo is the lead trainer for the "Resiliency in the Workforce" program at the Training Place, Butte College. Emiliano is passionate about helping organizations build psychologically safe work environments, creating a trauma-informed and resiliency-focused workforce where every employee feels respected, seen, valued, motivated, and engaged to improve their lives, organizations, and community.

Breaking Cycles and Creating Change 3-Part Series

Please plan to attend all three sessions:
8/6, 8/13, 8/20, 9am - 12 pm

Instructors Emiliano Cornejo and Scott Dinits

Outline:

Our community has faced significant challenges recently, including the Camp Fire and its aftermath, subsequent fires, and the ongoing impact of COVID-19. These challenges manifest in our local workforce through issues like low productivity, lack of empathy, burnout, reduced motivation, absenteeism, and high turnover rates. This training aims to cultivate a Trauma-Informed and Resilience-Focused culture in our local workforce, improving communication, engagement, understanding, empathy, and reducing burnout and friction.

Whether supervisors, educators, caretakers, leaders, or guides, we shape change in our community. Amidst the demands, our daily presence is crucial. This interactive training focuses on practical skill-building through engagement, practice, and reflection. Let's create a space to learn, grow, and reflect together, enhancing our ability to support others while prioritizing our well-being.

Learning Outcomes:

As a result of this training, participants will:

• Gain foundational knowledge of the biological aspects of trauma, fostering a deeper understanding of personal experiences and cultivating empathy in interactions with others.
• Increase awareness of one's physical and emotional responses, recognizing their impact on interactions with colleagues and clients, promoting greater self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
• Enhance interpersonal skills by adopting trauma-informed language, emphasizing empathy and effective communication. Cultivate a work environment that is supportive, collaborative, and conducive to positive relationships, thereby reducing friction.
• Acquire proficiency in the Community Resiliency Model's six Wellness Skills, developed by the Trauma Resource Institute. Learn techniques for self-regulation and balance in the nervous system, contributing to overall well-being and resilience.

As of January 2024, this training program has been embraced by 96 employers and over 1000 employees within our local workforce. The received feedback has been consistently positive, motivating numerous organizations to consider participation. The growing interest reflects a collective commitment to fostering a trauma-informed, resiliency-focused, and psychologically safe work environment in Butte and Glenn County.

Duration: 3 sessions - 3 hours per session (Total training time 9 hours)

What does it mean to be trauma-informed? Understanding the biology of traumatic and stressful life experiences helps us bring compassion and empathy to relate with others and ourselves more healthily. Let’s build together a trauma-informed and resiliency-focused workforce to improve relationships in the workplace and performance.

Como liderar un equipo teniendo en cuenta el stress y el trauma. 

Estres, Trauma, mi Lugar de Trabajo y Yo (CRM) 

A veces es fácil asumir que algo esta “mal” con mis compañeros de trabajo o con mis clientes cuando los veo tener una respuesta “exagerada” ante pequeños problemas. Pero asumir esto no es justo ni correcto, y afecta negativamente en las relaciones que construyo con ellos. Aun más importante, ¿que sucede si el “exagerado” soy yo, y creo no poder controlar mis propios sentimientos? ¿Hay algo mal conmigo? ¿Que puedo hacer para manejar esta situación mejor?

Entender la biología del trauma/estrés, y los cambios que toman lugar en mi propia fisiología luego de experimentar situaciones traumáticas o muy estresantes, puede ayudarme a ser más empático y compasivo hacia otros y mi mismo. En esta capacitación aprenderá lo que significa estar informado respecto al trauma, y enfocado en su propia resiliencia. También aprenderá las 6 técnicas del modelo CRM para promover la autorregulación y promover un mejor estado de bienestar.

If there’s one thing guaranteed in life, it is change. The way in which we navigate unanticipated change and stressful experiences will have a direct impact on our mind and body in subtle and not so subtle ways.

You will be introduced to the Change RHYTHM model, explore the tone of your inner narrative, self-assess your relationship and mindset towards a recent change event, and define a set of unique resilience rituals that will enable you to adapt to and evolve through the change and maintain forward momentum in the new normal that follows.