Trauma resilience

Building a culture of trauma resilience and recovery: Anyone can deliver facts – our expertise helps us change attitudes.

The impact of trauma has many costs – to individuals, families and teams, their employer and our wider society.

At work, colleagues often report that they feel like they could make things worse. Managers can feel helpless to support their teams because they do not know what to do.

This may mean that nobody does anything.

Without real understanding people can even lack empathy. This can lead to attitudes such as

“people should build a bridge and get over it”

“they’re not up to the job”

“I don’t understand why this affected them”

We set out to deliver context-based training that helped organisations to properly understand the impact of crisis and trauma. And importantly, what they can do about it.

To create resilient workplaces, line managers need the skills and confidence to recognise the range of crisis reactions, offer informal social support and signpost employees to additional support when necessary.

In fact, 69% of UK line managers say that supporting employee wellbeing is a core skill, but only 13% have received training in this.

“I wish I had learnt this years ago, I could have dealt with this so differently!”

In a time of crisis …