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Stress & Trauma in Healthcare
Leveraging somatic awareness in the healthcare workplace
Somatic awareness, the attunement to sensations and experiences within the body, serves as a key pathway to unlocking profound insights into the manifestation of racial bias and trauma.
Delve into the intricate connection between the body and the mind, offering a unique perspective on how somatic awareness can be harnessed for naming, mitigating, metabolizing, and ultimately healing the deep-seated issues surrounding bias and trauma. By understanding the ways in which the body stores and expresses these complex emotions, participants gain invaluable tools to navigate the challenging terrain of bias and trauma with sensitivity and consciousness.
Delve into the intricate connection between the body and the mind, offering a unique perspective on how somatic awareness can be harnessed for naming, mitigating, metabolizing, and ultimately healing the deep-seated issues surrounding bias and trauma. By understanding the ways in which the body stores and expresses these complex emotions, participants gain invaluable tools to navigate the challenging terrain of bias and trauma with sensitivity and consciousness.
About the Course
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Understand Somatic Awareness
- Explain the connection between stress, trauma, and the body, and understand the role of somatic awareness in addressing these issues.
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Explore Somatic Awareness as an Anti-Racist Practice
- Recognize how somatic awareness can be used to challenge internalized biases, foster empathy, and support racial healing.
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Utilize Somatic Exercises and Tools
- Apply simple somatic exercises to manage stress, process trauma, and promote emotional resilience in both personal and professional contexts.Understand how somatic experiences are linked to implicit biases and learn techniques to mitigate them.
- Apply simple somatic exercises to manage stress, process trauma, and promote emotional resilience in both personal and professional contexts.Understand how somatic experiences are linked to implicit biases and learn techniques to mitigate them.
Sharon GE Washington, Ed.D., MPH
Meet Dr. Sharon GE Washington, a distinguished educator and award-winning leader in antiracist discourse, training, and development within healthcare and public health. With two decades of expertise, Dr. Washington is recognized for her captivating engagement with diverse audiences, navigating the intricate intersections of race, historical trauma, social inequality, and justice, and their profound impact on health outcomes.
The Somatic Awareness for Racial Healing course offered by Dr. Washington is uniquely grounded in an intersectional, intergenerational, and holistic approach. The thread of trauma-centeredness runs through her educational and training background, infusing the course with a profound understanding of the historical and contemporary impacts of racial trauma. Participants can expect an immersive learning experience that addresses the complexities of racial healing through somatic awareness, fostering a critically conscious and holistic perspective on individual and collective well-being. Join Dr. Washington on this transformative journey towards healing and equity.
The Somatic Awareness for Racial Healing course offered by Dr. Washington is uniquely grounded in an intersectional, intergenerational, and holistic approach. The thread of trauma-centeredness runs through her educational and training background, infusing the course with a profound understanding of the historical and contemporary impacts of racial trauma. Participants can expect an immersive learning experience that addresses the complexities of racial healing through somatic awareness, fostering a critically conscious and holistic perspective on individual and collective well-being. Join Dr. Washington on this transformative journey towards healing and equity.