Sacred Leadership

Presented By: Juli Alvarado, MA,LPC,

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Diminishing Organizational Stress

through Sacred Leadership

Is in the mind/body/spirit Changes the chemistry and

functioning of the brain Changes the functioning of the

physical body Creates unconscious emotions of fear

leading to dysfunctional survival behaviors

FIGHT/FLIGHT/FREEZE

The Stressed Brain Dysregulation… …

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Keeping up with the times…

NEW RESEARCH NEUROSCIENCE MINDBODY

Trauma Informed

Services

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Trauma/Attachment/Regulation and Development of Self

Pituitary Gland

Neural Circuitry

Spinal Cord

(Lower Limbic/Reptilian)

Brainstem

Orbitofrontal Cortex

(Social/Emotional Control Center)

Amygdala

Hippocampus (Short-term Memory

Cause and effect

cortisol)

hijacked

Adapted from Chaos to Calm: Alvarado, www.coaching-forlife.com

Organizational Stress

Change in scope of service Loss of programs/funding Increase in level of acuity

Decrease in skilled support Increase in oversight

Practice and research not in sync Traumatic Etiology

High Stress/Low paying job Board of Directors with limited Clinical Expertise

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Relationships Are All That Matter

The Living Organization An organization simply cannot

be truly informed and trauma sensitive unless the system can create and sustain a process of understanding itself thru relationships.

A program cannot be safe for families if it is not first safe for its staff.

You cannot give away that which is not yours to give. 2

Adapted from: Chaos To Calm: Juli Alvarado www.coaching-forlife.com

Essential Aspects of a Trauma Informed System

• Recognition of vicarious trauma

• Parallel process

• Neuro- biologically informed

• Macro-system

Global Language

Leadership and

organizational culture

Clinical Integration

Shared mental model

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Vital Signs and ERH Sacred Leadership, ERH and Organizational Health

How is the “weather” in your workplace? Are people constantly on the lookout for dangerous storms of destructive leadership behavior? Or are they looking Forward to coming to work each day? Organizational Climate is an indicator of the collective feelings, relationships, and reactions in the workplace.. A positive culture drives engagement, unlocks communication and fuels performance. The Vital Signs Model defines organizational climate in the five factors shown to the right. A healthy climate will be balanced across the four dimensions of the model (people –organization and Strategy-operations.)

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Peace~

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It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work.

It means to be in the midst of those things and still

Be Calm in Your Heart. We can help. Our professional parent and life coaches are available to support your plan for a LIFE of Peace~ call us~303-431-0604

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Trauma Informed Clinical and Organizational Transformation

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