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Trauma-informed leadership is crucial if you want to accomplish trauma-informed change in your organization. Here’s some expert advice on...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Aug 31, 20226 min read
August 2022 Trauma-Informed Newsletter
Download this newsletter as a printable PDF: Monthly Reflections As the end of summer approached, many of us prepared for the incoming...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Aug 30, 20225 min read
How to Use Ritualization as an Accountability Tool When Practicing TIC
When we discuss implementing trauma-informed change, the conversation largely surrounds how we live trauma-informed values. How does our...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Aug 23, 20228 min read
9 Ways to Embody Trauma-Informed Values
Throughout our last several blogs, we’ve explored the broader themes of how to accomplish trauma-informed cultural change. We’ve also...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Jun 21, 20222 min read
Trauma-Informed Leadership and Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Last week I spent 3 days with a room full of exhausted yet engaged teachers, who were eager to learn about trauma and not only how it...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Jun 16, 20222 min read
Talking About Mental Health at Work
Despite the importance of vulnerability at work to promote a trauma-informed environment, the stigma surrounding emotional vulnerability...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Jun 7, 20223 min read
Trauma-Informed Leadership in the Law: And Why It Matters
Although trauma-informed leadership is gaining traction in the education and healthcare sectors, it is not a topic reserved for these...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
May 17, 20222 min read
5 Ways to Cope with Leadership Trauma and Organizational Chronic Stress
Most people will say that work stresses them out—but it’s possible that your job as a leader is causing chronic traumatic stress. If you...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Apr 20, 20222 min read
How to Build Resilience: Mastery of a Life Skill
In the past several weeks, we’ve explored what resilience is and how we can create resilience in our lives and organizations through...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Apr 7, 20222 min read
How to Build Resilience:Positive Stable Adult Relationships
Resilience is built in three core ways: positive and stable adult relationships, a strong connection to faith and cultural traditions,...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Mar 30, 20223 min read
Organizational Strategies for Resilience: How to Promote Resilience and Agility
No matter what type of organization you help run, if you are a leader, you should be promoting resilience and agility in the workplace....
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Jul 5, 20173 min read
THE IMPORTANCE OF TRAUMA INFORMED CARE: AND IMPLEMENTING IT INTO PRACTICE
It's almost impossible to help a child or a parent in need and not be affected by what we are seeing. This is true for any professional...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Feb 1, 20173 min read
A Nation Triggered: Using Powerful Questions to Coach Ourselves in Bi-Partisanship
A NATION TRIGGERED Using Powerful Questions to Coach Ourselves to Bi-Partisanship It’s official: in the United States we have a new...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Dec 8, 20162 min read
Who Gets The Life Raft: The Difficult Relationships of Foster Youth
Writing for this blog is sometimes problematic for me. I try to be as transparent as possible and talk about the things that are truly...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
May 20, 20164 min read
Reaching the Fourth "R": Schools and Classrooms Make the Difference
I am very excited to bring you my first guest blog. In full disclosure, I met Cathy Anther-Fialon, at a webcast on a seminar regarding...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Apr 13, 20163 min read
Healing Trauma: One Grocery Store Line at a Time
There’s a women standing in front of me at the grocery store. I can see her fidgeting, shifting her weight back and forth. She glances my...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Apr 7, 20161 min read
The Mimi Georges Show-The Broken Foster Care System
Shenandoah Chefalo was abused and neglected as a child by her mother and step-father. At the age of 13, she was abandoned so she...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Jan 26, 20162 min read
How Grief Goes Unnoticed in Foster Children and the Underlying Trauma it Can Cause
I have attended several funerals during my lifetime. At one, when I was still in high school, I remember watching the mother of a friend...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
Dec 20, 20152 min read
The 180 with Jim Brown on CBC Radio
The state of group homes in B.C. and Alberta has reached crisis level, with a recent B.C. government report revealing problems that range...
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