Trauma-Informed Contemplative Leadership

Cultivating practices that heal trauma and transform communities

with Nikole Lim

Overview

This 3-session, online course equips leaders to respond to team members affected by trauma from a spiritually grounded, informed and skillful approach. With the goal of preventing harm and fostering a safe environment, Nikole will help leaders from all walks of life bring new perspectives about trauma, accessibility, and inclusion into communities and spaces, with an aim towards implementing best practices of care and healing.

Participants can expect to gain leadership skills that develop and sustain individual and collective well-being; explore organizational development practices that foster compassionate communities; and learn how to prevent re-traumatization and bring transformation to organizations and communities at large.

The practices each week will encompass: contemplation on undoing the incessant urgency to do or fix; compassion practice to repair over-identification with trauma; and community wellbeing to heal relationships with self and others through listening, learning, and leaning in.

Schedule 

Week 1: Embodied Light: Overcoming Darkness

• Understanding trauma responses and reimagining our world
• Incorporating personal values as a spiritual leader
• Collaborating with others as a community leader

Week 2: Compassionate Gaze: Undoing Ignorance 

• Shifting cognitive bias to empower resilience
• Fostering empathy to cultivate principles of trauma-informed care
• Laying foundations for individual and collective compassion

Week 3: Accountable Posture: Transforming Oppression

• Using appreciative inquiry to foster accountability
• Contemplative Practices to cultivate self-awareness
• Preventing re-traumatization

We invite you to join Nikole and our community as we cultivate contemplative practices for caring, compassionate leadership!

Faculty: Nikole Lim

Schedule: Mondays, October 14, 21 & 28th,  from 6:30 – 8:00pm ET

Tuition: Regular fee: $90 / Supported fee: $60

*Please note: the tuition is for all three evenings. (Can’t make all three dates? Each session is recorded and will be available for six weeks for those who registered.)

Location: Online via Zoom