In this Feeling the Impact Series, we will explore how our need for safety, dignity, and the right relationship deeply influence how we navigate crises. The past six months have brought unparalleled disruption and loss that has affected every aspect of our personal, organizational, and communal lives. Intermingled with the grief of losing hundreds of thousands of precious lives, we are experiencing the traumatic loss of livelihoods, homes, businesses, and beloved landscapes as wildfires whip across broad swaths of our state. Many of us still harbor disturbing memories of the devastating wildfires of recent years. Others are also carrying the gravity of events at the heart of the racial uprisings. All of these place demands on our bodies, hearts, and minds as well as our relationships, our organizations, and the systems in which we operate.
Part 3: Understanding & Contextualizing Multiple Significant Crises
These times are asking a lot of us – as individuals, leaders, people connected to resources needed to address multiple crises. It’s reasonable that we’re having atypical physical and mental/emotional responses day to day – even moment to moment. How can we use an informed understanding of the cycles of harm and healing to help us through these challenging times? How might the principles of trauma-informed care serve us to take care of ourselves, our colleagues, and our grantee-partners during this period of convergent and large-scale disruption and challenges?
Join us to:
- gain an understanding of how historical, intergenerational, and current-day trauma interact to affect how individuals respond in a crisis
- learn techniques for taking care of yourself and others during periods of profound disruption and strain
- practice strategies for settling our minds and bodies and supporting others to do so
Registration
**You can register for the full series or individual events in this series. Register for the series by clicking "Register for the full series" above. Register for this individual event by clicking "Register Now" above.
Speakers
Lori Chelius, Co-Founder, Origins
Lori is driven by a desire to create sustainable change. Prior to founding Origins with Andi, she spent 15 years pursuing this desire in a number of roles in healthcare and public health, including strategic planning, business development, project management, market research, and needs assessment. During that time, Lori saw abundant opportunities to address issues upstream and affect the root causes, not just the symptoms. When Lori met Andi, a fellow champion of a trauma-informed approach, she realized they could team up to help organizations build strong foundations based on solid values, build resilience, and provide even better care for the people they serve. And so, Origins was born. Lori has a BA in psychology (with a concentration in neuroscience) from Williams College and an MBA and MPH from UC Berkeley. She lives in California with her wife, three kids, and their dog, Oliver. She also coaches youth soccer (and still attempts to play it). Contact her
at lori.chelius@originstraining.org 503-341-3361.
Andi Fetzner, Co-Founder, Origins
Andi strongly believes that you don’t have to be a therapist to be therapeutic. Working in social service for 15 years prior to founding Origins with Lori, Andi frequently was frustrated with the lack of coordination between clients and the various systems serving them and the lack of attention to the underlying cause of clients’ problems. The ACEs framework and trauma-informed approach provided a framework for supporting people clients and their families to heal despite obstacles in systems of care. Andi built from this work, training people across sectors to amplify trauma-informed approaches to care. She draws from her personal experience growing up as a child in kinship foster care and her professional education to encourage empowerment and equity. Andi has served children with special needs, at-hope youth, adults with special vocational training needs, and youth and families. Since moving to California in 2016, she has served both youths in schools all over LA County and those affected by the Malibu fires. She applies her experience today as a Seeking Safety facilitator for parents and as Trauma Informed Care Coordinator at Eisner Health in Los Angeles, where she focuses on the integration of trauma-informed approaches within a community healthcare clinic. When not working, Andi enjoys yoga, good food, and exploring with her fiance and two dogs, Brutus and Princess. Contact her
at andi.fetzner@originstrainingorg 818-473-9797.
Target Audience
This program is open to members of NCG, San Diego Grantmakers, and Southern California Grantmakers. Nonmember funders are also welcome.
