Episodes
Aug. 9, 2021
Post-Traumatic Thriving: the Art, Science & Stories of Resilience
Dr. Randall Bell will discuss his book, Post-Traumatic Thriving, the Art, Science and Stories of Resilience. Today we see crime, abuse, alcoholism, drugs, anger, and anxiety everywhere. Jails and prisons are crammed on an ind...
Aug. 2, 2021
The Human Toll of Fire Disasters: Helping & Healing Kids & Family
Fires are devastating to communities and to the children, teens and adults grappling to survive and to recover. During the last week in Western United States, over 22,000 firefighters were combating wildfires, homes burned, a...
July 26, 2021
Posttraumatic Growth After Human Sex Trafficking and Trauma
Meet Me At the Shore: Tracking the Tide of Posttraumatic Growth After Human Trafficking and Trauma K Thomas, a trained trauma therapist and a survivor of sexual and relationship violence. K will weave their personal and profe...
July 19, 2021
Trauma-Informed Mental Health Advocacy: Get Rescue Plan Act Money
How do we fund innovative reforms to make mental health services that are trauma-informed and resiliency-focused more accessible? Two leaders in the field, Carey Smith Sipp and Jesse Kohler, advocates for reform in communitie...
July 12, 2021
Racism: How to Live Beyond Trauma
Drs. Larry Ward and Peggy Rowe-Ward will address how we are all as a world community are impacted by Racism and how we can heal from the traumas that arise from Racism. Dr. Ward’s book, America’s Racial Karma published in Sep...
June 28, 2021
Post-Pandemic Healing, Learning and Well-being
Heidi Williams-Cooper and Lindy Settevendemie began working together just prior to the pandemic with Emory University’s Social, Emotional, and Ethical (SEE) Learning program. SEE Learning is an innovative K-12 education progr...
June 21, 2021
EMDR, TRM & PTSD Treatment: Hope and Healing
This month is PTSD Awareness Month. Kate Wheeler and Elaine Miller-Karas will dialogue about the treatment of PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) and how through two treatment methods, EMDR and the Trauma Resiliency Model (...
June 14, 2021
How Technology can Save our Communities from Sexual Violence
The internet and social media are often perceived as the bad guys as they have unfortunately been abused by perpetrators to target children, teens, and adults for bullying, sexual harassment, predatory grooming and sex-traffi...
June 7, 2021
Stopping Gun Violence- Reimagining a Restorative Justice System
During a two-year period in Santa Maria, California -a city of 103,000- there were 23 murders within 17 months. This epidemic had many contributing factors, including gun violence. As the community reeled and came together, o...
May 24, 2021
Child Abuse Prevention in Res. Facilities: Breaking Code Silence
Preventing Child Abuse in Residential Facilities is the passionate commitment of our guests who are two of the founders of Breaking Code Silence, a newly formed nonprofit. Vanessa Hughes and Kathryn McNamara, both survivors o...
May 17, 2021
Trauma Healing: Safety and Trust built upon Resilience
Clive Corry will discuss the mission and purpose of Action Trauma, the nonprofit he started in 2016 in the memory of his wife, after discovering that trauma, anxiety and stress may have contributed to her death from cancer. H...
May 10, 2021
Healing Embodied Trauma: The Trauma Resiliency Model
In honor of Mother’s Day and Mental Health Awareness Month, the mother-daughter team of Jesssica Karas Waterson, LMFT and Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW will share how their shared interests led them to work together as trauma the...
May 3, 2021
Peace over Violence: Movements Matter.
From civil rights, to violence against women, to disability and LGBTQ rights, to the current Black Lives Matter & MeToo, movements shape what is important and impact policy and culture. Patti Giggans is the Executive Director...
April 26, 2021
The Importance of Building Resilience for the Climate Emergency
Bob Doppelt has organized and currently coordinates the Transformational Resiliency Coalition (ITRC). Bob’s work has helped organizations develop externally-focused climate adaptation plans. The ITRC is now led by a national ...
April 19, 2021
Resilience: A Doorway to Compassion and a more Equitable Society
Michael Karlin, one of the creators of Compassionate Integrity Training(CIT), will illuminate our listeners about this innovative program that has been adopted by UNESCO MGIEP. The UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education...
April 12, 2021
Resilience in The Public Sector and Beyond
New Hanover County faces many natural crises due to their location on the coast of North Carolina and the numerous hurricanes that have occurred over the last few years. New Hanover County adopted biologically-based resilienc...
April 5, 2021
The Diverse Experience of Asian-Americans: Hate Crimes to Healing
In light of the recent shootings in Georgia, this show will look at hate crimes in the Asian-American community and honoring the diversity of lived experiences within the vast group labeled as “Asian-American”. Reena Patel an...
March 29, 2021
Empowering Voices to Build Resiliency
Focused on personal empowerment and promoting strategies to enhance resiliency, Joy Erlichman Miller will share her ideas and wisdom regarding the forum she has helped create: Resiliency 2021. She will share how the forum bri...
March 22, 2021
Opioid Epidemic: A Mother’s Journey from Grief to Global Purpose
Cammie Wolf Rice, the founder of the Christopher Wolf Crusade, will share her journey as a mother who lost her beloved son, Christopher, to the Opioid Epidemic. She brings to light the lost promise of her kind, empathic son a...
March 15, 2021
N. Ireland Resiliency: The Prison Ombudsman and Victims Support
This episode will highlight the relationships that Lesley Carroll has been cultivating for a lifetime in Northern Ireland and how as a natural leader, she has cultivated bringing resiliency practices to her beloved country. A...
March 8, 2021
Law Enforcement Interactions and the Community Resiliency Model
Jen Wallace is a leader bringing innovative trauma and resiliency informed ideas into law enforcement. She will discuss why resiliency matters to police and how resiliency wellness skills can be organically integrated into po...
March 1, 2021
Cultivating Resilience and Compassion in K-12 Education
The Dalai Lama and Emory University established the Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics. The center has a vision of a compassionate and ethical world for all, and its mission is to promote human flour...
Feb. 22, 2021
Organizational Development of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
No person or organization is left untouched by the trauma of institutional racism, transgenerational trauma, historical trauma, discrimination and patriarchal power structures. We are all impacted by the inequities and injust...
Feb. 15, 2021
Through a Daughter’s Eyes-The Legacy of Medgar Evers
Civil Rights icon Medgar Evers, was assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi on June 12, 1963. His dynamic, committed and compassionate daughter, Reena Evers-Everette, will share how the vision of her father and mother continues ...