The public health workforce has experienced cumulative and compounding toxic stress and trauma over the last two-and-a-half years. The impact of these experiences can result in communication breakdowns, demoralization, career dissatisfaction, and disconnection among the workforce, and can ultimately lead to attrition at a time when advanced leadership is most necessary.
These challenges require a sustainable remedy and deliberative process for restoring individual, collective, and organizational capacity. Lodestar’s Trauma-Responsive Leadership Program has been designed specifically for public health leaders. ASTHO is sponsoring a two-and-a-half day workshop focused on building the knowledge, understanding, and executive skills needed to navigate beyond this toxic stress.
Lodestar senior faculty will expertly deploy narrative facilitation strategies that model self-regulation, awareness, and trauma-responsive engagement. As participants acquire skills in trauma-responsive engagement, they will also experience real-time stress- and trauma-mitigation, a sense of renewal, and lasting leadership development. Participants will emerge with professional and personal insights and growth, and a greater trauma-awareness and connection to actionable strategies.