EMBODIMENT & ENACTMENT – ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS
March 13, 2024
Hosted by Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy
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Episode Description
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 puzzling dynamic of reenactment, particularly traumatic reenactment – the compulsive need to repeat the past. In the second segment, our guest will be psychiatrist Dr. Lyndra Bills, who works as Senior Medical Director for Community Care Behavioral Health. She will talk about training and practice experiences which have highlighted the importance of using nonverbal methods to address traumatic stress. Clinical experiences using Trauma Art Narrative Therapy (TANT) as well as other nonverbal therapies will be explored. In the third segment, Dr. Scott Giacomucci will detail how he uses trauma-informed psychodrama as a way of helping people enact new strategies in the process of healing at the Phoenix Center. Accompanying him will be David McCorkle, whose life first as a Broadway actor, and then as a social worker, inspires his individual therapeutic work as well as his community-based work at the Center for Trauma Resilient Communities to embody the concept of “actions speak louder than words.”
Creating Presence with Dr. Sandra Bloom & Sarah Yanosy
Wednesdays at 9 AM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Empowerment Channel
Creating Presence with Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy explores how our biological and psychological vulnerability collide with our political, civic, and economic landscapes to create potentially catastrophic toxicity for our collective social health. Using the lens of public health science and their own experience as mental health providers and educators, these two thought leaders in trauma-responsive practice engage experts from a range of fields that shape social health at both individual and community levels. These conversations capitalize on this critical point in human evolution to change the paradigm for how we think about who we are and what we need to conquer toxicity and promote social health. This series will highlight successful strategies from the spheres of politics, spirituality, education, justice, art, and parenting, as well as steps for reshaping our work environments and the places we seek healing, connection, and recovery.
Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy
Dr. Sandra L. Bloom is a Board-Certified psychiatrist, graduate of Temple University School of Medicine and currently Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy at the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, where she teaches five courses focused on the impact of psychological trauma on individuals and organizations. From 1980-2001, Dr. Bloom served as Founder and Executive Director of the Sanctuary programs, inpatient psychiatric programs for the treatment of trauma-related emotional disorders and during those years was also President of the Alliance for Creative Development, a multidisciplinary outpatient practice group. Dr. Bloom is recognized nationally and internationally as the founder of the Sanctuary Model. Between 2005 and 2016 over 350 social service, juvenile justice and mental health organizations were trained in the Sanctuary Model. In extending her work to include an online delivery program for Leaders, Clinicians, Direct Service Staff, and Indirect Service Staff called Creating Presence, Dr. Bloom hopes to make the innovative approach to service delivery known as “trauma-informed” and “trauma-responsive” more available and cost effective. Dr. Bloom is a Past-President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and author or co-author of a series of books on trauma-informed care: Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies published in 1997 with a second edition in 2013; Bearing Witness: Violence and Collective Responsibility in 1998; Destroying Sanctuary: The Crisis in Human Delivery Service Systems published by Oxford University Press in 2010 and Restoring Sanctuary: A New Operating System for Trauma-Informed Systems of Care, published by Oxford University Press in 2013. She is a founder of and immediate past-president of a new national organization, CTIPP – The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice whose goal is to advocate for public policies and programs at the federal, state, local and tribal levels that incorporate up-to-date scientific findings regarding the relationship between trauma across the lifespan and many social and health problems.
Ms. Yanosy’s career has integrated clinical work, education and administration, resulting in expertise in individual and family therapy, program and curriculum development as well as program evaluation and replication. Ms. Yanosy currently teaches at the Fordham University School of Social Services and the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. She served as the Founding Director of an international training and consultation organization serving over 350 organizations across the US and in 7 other countries, teaching human service providers to implement trauma-informed interventions. Most recently, Ms. Yanosy co-developed the PRESENCE Model, an online training model for trauma responsive practice. Ms. Yanosy has been a keynote and featured speaker on trauma and organizational culture and has published extensively on the implementation and impact of trauma responsive practice. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Cornell University and Smith College respectively, and has completed post graduate programs at New York University, Fordham University and Columbia Business School.
