Bluemont Technology & Research, Inc’s Post

Thank you HBR for this important post. This is particularly important for organizations delivering on external missions that bring their people face to face with primary or secondary trauma to consider and understand. The internal experience for you and your people in these workplaces should be one where you all can feel safe and secure to voice your needs for healing and care and work together to address them. Otherwise how can you sustainably deliver on your important work over time as a company? For organizations grappling with how to do this, we at Bloom 360 Workplace have an Internal Resiliency Framework that is a gentle step by step process for creating an environment where you are able to learn what your employees needs are continuously in real time and build viable solutions together for addressing them. Please do get in touch with us if your a leader and this is something your organization could benefit from because it a practical tool for building resiliency in workplaces when you need it the most - right now.

Good for preventive self-care as unexpected transition is part of life and work.

This is a fascinating article about resilience and the importance of optimism.

An important process of trauma is to put meaning behind the trauma! Ask yourself, “What does this mean for me”? Where you extract insight, trauma leads to growth and true transformation

Building Mental Resilience and thinking like Optimists ..... all about immunizing against helplessness, against depression, and anxiety, and against giving up after setback or failure. Need of the time amidst the layoffs https://lnkd.in/g3qrEVCi #positivepsychology #mentalresilience #optimism

Create a narrative in which your trauma is seen as a fork in the road that enhances the appreciation of paradox — loss and gain, grief and gratitude, vulnerability and strength.

▶ Such powerful research with wide-ranging implications for life, learning and career. ▶ From the HBR article by Martin Seligman: "In the late 1960s I was part of the team that discovered “learned helplessness.” We found that dogs, rats, mice, and even cockroaches that experienced mildly painful shock over which they had no control would eventually just accept it, with no attempt to escape. It was next shown that human beings do the same thing."  ▶ For those creating the learning conditions for children and youth, there must be a recognition that some students may need to borrow an adult's 'optimism' about their circumstance, their adversities, and even about themselves before practicing 'learned optimism.' The choppy seas of adversity, trauma, grief and loss can swamp even the most buoyant of individuals. But as Seligman suggests, we can focus on the external waves and our beliefs about what they might do to us, or use our strengths to break through them. "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor." - Franklin D. Roosevelt Thankful for those in the education sector serving in so many ways to increase the buoyancy and resilience of their students, their colleagues, and themselves.

“Strangely, however, about a third of the animals and people who experience inescapable shocks or noise never become helpless. What is it about them that makes this so? Over 15 years of study, my colleagues and I discovered that the answer is optimism. We developed questionnaires and analyzed the content of verbatim speech and writing to assess “explanatory style” as optimistic or pessimistic. We discovered that people who don’t give up have a habit of interpreting setbacks as temporary, local, and changeable. (“It’s going away quickly; it’s just this one situation, and I can do something about it.”) That suggested how we might immunize people against learned helplessness, against depression and anxiety, and against giving up after failure: by teaching them to think like optimists.” ~ From HBR’s Building Resilience

As humans, we tend to avoid experiencing unforgettable emotions and situations. It makes sense as to why denial is used so often, often enough to become a harmful coping mechanism. I often tell my clients that avoidance and denial will only prolong suffering and that acceptance of our realities will help us move through issues as they arise. Click below to continue reading an article that I wrote recently on using denial as a defense mechanism! #copingskills #copingstrategies #denialmanagement

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