Are you Trauma Conscious in your spiritual care?

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* 1. What is Trauma Consciousness?

Willingness to be aware of own traumas, challenges, and stressors.

Understanding the effects of stress and the stress response on the physical and mental body.

Openness to understanding other points of view.

Justice seeking for generational, collective and systemic issues.

All of these--and more!

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* 2. Which of these is an example of Trauma Consciousness? Click all that apply

Giving hugs and handshakes with all congregants or clients who come in.

Giving a tissue to a client when they cry.

Asking the client or congregant what safe space could look like for them and designing the space to accomodate as many needs as able.

Assuming gender pronouns and using them without asking.

None of the above

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* 3. What is an example of trauma?

When a person experienced childhood neglect due to having alcoholic and divorced parents.

COVID pandemic

Ministerial violations of trust and safety

Experiencing a religious cult

Continual boundary violations in seeming "sacred space"

All of the above

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* 4. What are the 5 competencies of Trauma Consciousness?

Understands stress response and trauma's effects

Can recognize the symptoms of traumatic stress

Understands spiritual bypassing and resists spiritualizing trauma

Supports trauma-informed policies and processes

Understands and guards against retraumatization

All of the above

None of the above

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* 5. What does resiliency and burnout prevention have to do with Trauma Consciousness?

All spiritual care providers are burned out.

When we know about trauma than we seek places that have it.

Resiliency reduces trauma.

When spiritual care providers foster resilience, then they are less apt to experience burnout and thus increase their ability to maintain consciousness in their care.

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* 6. Which of these is NOT an example of a neurologically-based ways to hold trauma conscious space?

Reflection

Resourcing

Coregulation

Mirroring

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* 7. What is spiritual bypassing? (click all that apply)

Avoiding anger responses

"Everything happens for a reason"

Overemphasizing the positive

Ignoring gut/heart "knowings"

Insisting on "holding space" or "being present" with difficult material

Willingness to be open to new ideas

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* 8. What is Trauma Informed Spirituality? (click all that apply)

Use of "must-do" language

Openness to experience

Non-judgmental support

Curiosity

Boundaried

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* 9. Trauma Conscious Spiritual Spaces does not include:

Noticing extraneous noise

Offering or welcoming personal comfort objects

Harsh lighting

Sensitive distance between participants

Acknowledging needs for assistance for those with other abilities

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* 10. If you are curious about further info and developing your own trauma consciousness as a spiritual care provider--drop your email here! No spam allowed, I promise :)