Trauma-Informed Design: What is it?
In viewing trauma through a wider lens we see its detrimental impact.
A More Equitable Society Requires We Address Our Own Implicit Bias
Avoiding implicit bias starts with a conscious knowledge it exists within you.
Partial Recovery from the Pandemic: Still Picking Up the Pieces
Pushing through is an important and necessary survival tool. All of us had some form of “pushing through” at the height of the pandemic.
When Your Home Is Your Office: Avoiding Telework Burnout
Burn-out is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.
Creating a Safe Workplace During COVID-19
This short story illustrates applying trauma-informed design to an office coping with reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. The techniques used in this fictional setting come from a variety of sources.
Will I Be Hurt by Going to Work Today?
Already struggling in a system-wide burnout crisis, COVID-19 responders in healthcare now have reason to worry.
Shared Responsibility Accelerates Workplace Resilience
Workplaces are full of demands – most face some levels of uncertainty, pressures, and unpredictability. In addition, many of Greenleaf’s clients face more serious stressors, such as potential injury to themselves or their co-workers or the threat of violence.
New White Paper Offers Insights on Supporting Employees’ Behavioral Health
Most employers don’t realize that a significant percentage of people with symptoms of a mental health or substance use condition doesn’t receive appropriate treatment. Instead, they suffer in silence, which creates struggles across many areas of life – including their engagement and performance and work.
Flatlined Connectedness: Reviving Healthcare Teams in a Disconnected Culture
In our first blog in the Connectedness Series, we discussed the benefits and drawbacks that the advancement of technology has on connectedness in the workplace especially as it impacts the healthcare arena. However, technology is impacting connectedness in many workplaces, which makes us ask, “What is unique about physicians?”
Conferences Point Out Need for Connectedness
This spring was a season filled with conferences. I’ve written about the NAHCPC’s conference previously, where our panel discussed the importance of caring for caregivers. Other conferences I participated in included two with a focus on the workplace, where I presented or led a panel for the American Psychiatric Association Foundation’s Center for Workplace Mental Health.
