Episodes

June 12, 2024

Organizations Are Not Machines

Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy offer a biological understanding of the human stress response and explain the significance of this knowledge, particularly for leaders, in our modern world and workplace. Unpacking the history of our ...
June 5, 2024

What's Happened to You?

Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy dive into the principles and practices underpinning Creating PRESENCE, their newest intervention to help leaders and their organizations integrate trauma-informed practice. In this episode, D...
April 10, 2024

LESSONS LEARNED

In this final episode of this series, Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy will reflect on lessons learned from the various guests of the broadcast and how their work is changing the narrative of understanding about human nature and our ...
April 3, 2024

EMERGENCE & EVOLUTION: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

In the first segment, Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy look at the possibilities for Emergence and Evolution to support social health in our individual and group lives. This requires articulating clearer descriptions of what health a...
March 27, 2024

CULTURE & COMPLEXITY: THE CHALLENGES OF COMPLEXITY

In the first segment, Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy will discuss the importance of appreciating “complexity” and how culture, in all its forms, inevitably increases the complexity of every group, organization, and community. It is...
March 20, 2024

NATURE & NURTURE: HONORING DEVELOPMENT

In the first segment, Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy explore the notion of Nature and Nurture and how they are manifested in our lives by discussing childhood development, and how the lessons learned in our early years follow us th...
March 13, 2024

EMBODIMENT & ENACTMENT – ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS

In the first segment, Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy assert that embodying and enacting dynamics that support engagement and connection are imperative to achieving social health in ourselves and our communities. We have all heard t...
March 6, 2024

PART 2: SAFETY & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY - JOURNALISM AND TRAUMA

In the first segment, Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy will expand on the important issue of Safety and Social Responsibility by focusing on organizational safety, chronic stress, and the lack of cultural safety. They will describe t...
Feb. 28, 2024

PART 1: SAFETY & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY – THE JUSTICE SYSTEM

In the first segment, Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy will expand the definition of the word “safety” and discuss how the establishment and maintenance of safety is not just an individual issue but a social responsibility of organiz...
Feb. 21, 2024

EMOTIONAL WISDOM & EMPATHY - RESPONSIVENESS IN EDUCATION

In the first segment of Week 6, Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy focus on deepening our understanding of emotions. They will highlight the critical role that emotional experience – past and present – plays in our lives, with a specia...
Feb. 14, 2024

PART 2: REVERENCE & RESTORATION - THE CHALLENGES OF CAREGIVING

In the first segment, Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy will focus on the importance of an attitude of reverence when it comes to the provision of both physical and mental health care and how vital it is that caregivers are enabled to...
Feb. 7, 2024

PART 1: REVERENCE & RESTORATION - LEARNING FROM INDIGENOUS WISDOM

After focusing on the uses and abuse of power that so often erect barriers to true partnership, in the first segment of Week 4, Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy are going to step back and talk about the “R” in P.R.E.S.E.N.C.E. repres...
Jan. 31, 2024

PART 2: PARTNERSHIP & POWER: THE TRAUMATIZED WORKPLACE

In the first segment of the broadcast, Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy will discuss some of the findings of Dr. Bloom’s 2010 book, Destroying Sanctuary: The Crisis in Human Service Delivery Systems, the first book to thoroughly expl...
Jan. 24, 2024

PART 1: PARTNERSHIP & POWER: KEY VIRTUE - BALANCE

This first segment will focus on describing the “P” in PRESENCE: Partnership and Power. The problems we are facing today that erode social health are fundamentally about the misuse of Power. So, Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy will ...
Jan. 17, 2024

EXPLORING SOCIAL HEALTH: INTRODUCTION TO THE SHOW

Psychiatrist and Associate Professor of Public Health at Drexel University, Dr. Sandra Bloom and Social Worker, Sarah Yanosy have been working together for a quarter of a century and in introducing themselves to the listeners...