Prioritizing well-being is a priority right now. By tending to ourselves, we give our brains reprieve so we can be more present in meetings, relationships, and decision-making. This also allows us to be more equipped to show up for the hard and messy work that is advancing social justice. In the last few years, there has been an increase in the number of disciplines and organizations interested in applying a “trauma-informed” lens. While being trauma-informed is important, it is only a starting point. In this webinar social work scholar Ozy Aloziem, MSW will discuss why we must move past simply being trauma-informed toward actively promoting holistic and collective healing.
Participants will learn:
* How to distinguish between different types of trauma
* About the impacts of race-based stress and trauma in the workplace
* The difference between trauma-informed and healing-centered
* About a culturally responsive wellness model that incorporates a healing-centered framework
About Our Presenter: Ozioma (Ozy) Aloziem is the Founder and Principal Advisor of HEAL INC LLC. She is a TEDx speaker and an award-winning Igbo social worker deeply committed to collective liberation, racial justice, and healing. Ozy was the Denver Public Library’s first Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Manager during which time she was named a 2021 Library Journal “Movers & Shakers” award winner for her racial equity research and advocacy. Ozy is a social work scholar and professor that is deeply committed to embodiment and prioritizing equity in her teaching, scholarship, and activism. She uses this focus to amplify the voices of communities that have been marginalized and left on the fringes of research, public policy, and global conversation. She is committed to prioritizing and creating space for healing. Ozy believes in engaging in critical research as a radical act of freedom. Presently, her research is centered around healing-centered organizational cultures, historical trauma, shared trauma, radical healing, and radical imagination.