Episodes

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 current paradigm that treats organizations as machines, they use the body as a metaphor to reveal that our organizations are actually living systems, and treating them as such would effectively promote and sustain individual and social health. Finally, they dive into some of...

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, Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy explain the importance of shifting from, What’s wrong with you to What’s happened to you? and the implications of this perspective change for our systems of care. Furthermore, they elaborate on the need for trauma-informed leaders and how Creating PRE...

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 history. The hosts will draw connections between human history and the persistent mental models that are so destructive to wellbeing. These mental models have resulted in a “traumatogenic” society, one that creates trauma for millions of people. We can change that together a...

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 and healing look like and how change happens for individuals and for groups. The concept of a “biocracy” may enable us to further a vision for living, self-organizing, and healthier organizations and systems. In the second segment, Dr. Christine Courtois, who has played a cri...

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 the unconscious dynamics in a complex system that often confound those in a position to take action toward social health. So, in this segment the hosts will look at some of those unconscious group dynamics and offer tools for managing it. In the second and third segments, t...

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 throughout our lifespans. This is particularly relevant when children experience abuse, loss, or insufficient care. This same phenomenon applies to groups, as organizations and communities follow a developmental trajectory, and their needs change as they age. For the second an...

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 the phrase since childhood, “actions speak louder than words” and in this segment we will look at why that is the case and what leaders need to do to keep information and knowledge flowing throughout an organization. We will also look at the astonishingly powerful and puzzlin...

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 the toll it is taking on our culture, fueled by social media and instantaneous access to both information and misinformation. The second and third segments will focus on “trauma-informed” journalism as represented by the work of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a pr...

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 organizations, communities, and whole societies. In our present culture, there is an expectation that basic physical safety is the domain of the criminal justice system. As our justice system – especially prisons – have grown, it is arguably less safe now than even a couple of deca...

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 special emphasis on the importance of emotional intelligence in the educational system. A central idea for this week is looking at the capacity of organizations to develop Emotional Wisdom, and what it looks like when they do. How can Empathy be developed in the workplace so that ...

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 restore for themselves that sense of reverence when they are so often being stressed by a demand for more profitability. In the second segment, two people who are shaping trauma-informed healthcare, mental health care and addiction services in Oregon will share their own pe...

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. representing Reverence and Restoration with a focus on reverence for life and the will to restore what has been broken. It is clear that the complex interdependence and interconnected nature of all living things on the planet can no longer be denied. Our survival as a species will...

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 explore what happens in stressed workplace environments that turned out to be a predictor of the post-COVID workplace world. In the second segment, Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy welcome Dr. Jennifer Freyd, a psychology researcher, educator, and author. Her research on betrayal trauma...

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 look at what this use and misuse of power does to individuals and to groups and what the antidote is - democratic, participatory systems of self-governance based in partnership. In the second and third segments, they will begin a more expansive conversation with their guest,...

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, they will share some of their own stories about first confronting traumatic experiences in children and adults within mental health settings and how that is leading to a wider understanding about our culture – its strengths and its deficits. In the second segment, Dr. Bloo...