Episodes
Dec. 18, 2024
Through the Lens of Moral Safety
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy begin with the evolutionary purpose for morality and the inherent connection between moral development and relational influence. They delineate the struggles faced by a society in which moral...
Dec. 11, 2024
Learned Helplessness and Disempowerment
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy teach the biological basis of learned helplessness and its inherent connection to traumatic experiences, whether in childhood or adulthood. Discussing learned helplessness in organizations, t...
Dec. 4, 2024
Complex PTSD and the Little Deaths
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy discuss the often unprocessed grief that accompanies childhood abuse and neglect, and the ways in which that grief translates into pathological responses in adults. They go on to explain that...
Nov. 27, 2024
Worldviews, Beliefs, and Terror Management Theory
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy dive deep into Terror Management Theory and the impact that the certainty of death has on how we live our lives. They explain how our “mortality salience” predisposes us to resist change – ev...
Nov. 20, 2024
Communication and Collective Disturbance
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy define the health of organizations by the flow of communication within them, emphasizing the significance of diverse perspectives when it comes to complex problem solving. They go on to descr...
Nov. 13, 2024
The Danger of Silencing Dissent
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy explain the consequences of communities and organizations under stress, noting an incapacity for long-term learning and knowledge integration. They discuss the power of confirmation bias to l...
Nov. 6, 2024
Trauma and Collective Memory
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy connect collective trauma with organizational amnesia and the subsequent inability to learn from the past. Making the distinction between tacit and explicit knowledge, they discuss the danger...
Oct. 30, 2024
Authoritarianism and Bogus Empowerment
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy lay out the fundamental characteristics of those who are high in authoritarian traits and how they perpetuate the destructive impact of authoritarian leaders – whether in organizations, syste...
Oct. 23, 2024
Bullies, Bosses, and Psychopaths
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy explain some of the reasons for various antisocial behaviors and what they look like in children and adults. On this topic, they discuss the four “dark traits” and what happens when individua...
Oct. 16, 2024
Intersections of Trauma Responsiveness and Anti-Racism
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy discuss the wounds of othering widely experienced by BIPOC and offer guidelines for having safe and effective discussions about race. Drawing connections between trauma reactive organizations...
Oct. 9, 2024
The Social Construction of Cruelty
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy explain the various social constructs that act as the driving force behind most human suffering today. Diving into the history of humankind, they offer research and evidence to support the fa...
Oct. 2, 2024
Repairing Wounds with Justice
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy consider the impact of collective, historical, and cultural trauma in our society and their cumulative effects on multiple populations. This dialogue additionally touches on the consequences ...
Sept. 25, 2024
A Healthy Society?
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy address the crisis of workplace health and wellbeing, noting the interconnectedness of social, economic, personal, and job stress. Within this conversation, the hosts address the larger under...
Aug. 28, 2024
Democracy as Trauma Informed Practice
Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy detail how developing democratic skills can function as an antidote to the effects of trauma and adversity on any scale. Then they outline two standard types of leadership and decision making and how ...
Aug. 21, 2024
Changing Thought Habits with Double Loop Learning
Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy provide an in-depth look at double loop learning and what makes it an essential part of trauma informed practice. They highlight six common thought habits that keep staff stuck in single loop learning...
Aug. 14, 2024
Protecting Ourselves and Our Staff from Vicarious Trauma
Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy advocate for the integration of our emotional brain with our logical brain in order to unlock more effective ways of thinking and problem solving. With the importance of emotional understanding in min...
Aug. 7, 2024
Managing Complexity
Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy highlight six components of managing complexity in living systems that all leaders should be aware of. Furthermore, they unpack what leaders need to know in order to effectively manage the process of ...
July 31, 2024
A Compass for Change: SELF
Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy explain how the SELF acronym helps people impacted by trauma and adversity make sense of their experiences and pave a path toward healing and recovery. Extending their conversation to the workplace, t...
July 24, 2024
Let's Not Start an Uncivil War
Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy illustrate the difference between task and interpersonal conflict, noting how to recognize when a simple problem is devolving into something more complex. They explain the role that our biology can pl...
July 17, 2024
History Repeats
Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy discuss the nature of traumatic reenactment and our biologically-based preference for familiarity, explaining the connection between behavior and the unconscious mind. Then, they dive into the Drama T...
July 10, 2024
Building Safety and Insight
Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy analyze various leadership styles and describe circumstances in which some approaches are more effective than others. With President and CEO of Lakeside, Gerry Vassar, they consider attributes and att...
July 3, 2024
Organizations as Living Systems
Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy define systems thinking and the various ways that it challenges our current approach to organizational operation. Identifying enemies of systems thinking, which are commonly found in organizations try...
June 26, 2024
Relationships and Recovery
Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy unpack the multiple effects of trauma and adversity, contrasted with how true psychological health manifests, in individuals and relationships. On the topic of healing, they explore the idea of post t...
June 19, 2024
Big Risks + Little Brains = Big Brains + Big Problems
Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy explain the impact of attachment trauma and how our early life experiences shape our long term health and wellbeing. With this in mind, they provide an overview of the ACEs study and draw connections ...