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This 12-minute video explores different conflict-resolution techniques that can support conversations in both the workplace and people’s personal lives.

Video from WebMD about how to manage stress at work.

In this 10-minute video, Dr. Tracey Marks discusses how chronic stress affects people and offers solutions with actionable steps.

This infographic identifies the six guiding principles to a trauma-informed approach to be assessed and improved on in organizations pursuing trauma-informed care. These principles each guide the framework of an organization and the impact of the services it provides.

This five-minute YouTube video by Futures Without Violence focuses on workplace safety. Sarah Gonzalez walks us through six steps leaders can take to create a more trauma-informed workplace.

This web article from Fit Small Business guides you through effective conflict resolution options for identifying conflict and maintaining a healthy work environment.

Created by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (PCAR), this 38-page guide was developed to aid supervisors of advocates at victim service providers and includes a brief overview and best practices for creating an environment for effective supervision.

This 26-page guide was created by the Shift Work Forward, formerly known as the National Fund for Workforce Solutions.

This is a quick, easy-to-use reference for creating a trauma-informed approach to communication and identifying the qualities of trauma-informed communication.

This article by the Center for Creative Leadership defines leadership compassion and explains how to develop effective leaders, strengthen trust, increase organizational collaboration, and reduce turnover.

This checklist reviews the 4 As of a mental health-friendly workplace - awareness, accommodations, assistance, and access. It includes strategies to help employers create and implement policies, programs, and practices that promote greater mental well-being at work.

This toolkit was created to enhance your compassion practices and inspire ways of expressing compassion, individually or as a team. It offers ways to optimize your relationships, health, and well-being, both in and out of work.

This 7-minute video expands the concept of compassionate leadership to collaboration and inclusivity. It was created by The King's Fund, an independent charity working to improve people's health, inspire hope, and build confidence for positive change.

Practical tips are shared in this article to give tough feedback and make hard decisions with compassion.

Complete the quiz to identify your Conflict Management Style. Descriptions of your style are given based on your score.

Recommendations to enhance physical, social and emotional environments to improve feelings of safety, and create an atmosphere that reduces re-traumatization

This website provides contact information for a variety of crisis hotlines offering active crisis support, as well as psychologist options listed by state. This is an essential document for a wellness-focused toolkit.

Take a break with these five short desk stretch videos by the Mayo Clinic. These videos are geared toward desk workers to help ease stiffness, especially in your neck, shoulders, and upper back.

In this article by Gallup Workplace, you'll learn about the framework of employee wellbeing, the cost of neglecting wellbeing, the connection between burnout and wellbeing, why to prioritize career wellbeing, and how wellbeing stabilizes engagement.

This brief WebMD video explains sound baths and how they help with stress reduction.

In this TEDx video, Kwame Christian shares tips for successful conflict resolution. As a professional conflict negotiator, he recognizes that conflict can be one of the most challenging parts of our personal and professional lives.

This graphic by the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General shows the five essentials for workplace mental health and well-being. Centered on worker voice and equity and grounded in safety and security, these five essentials support workplaces as engines of well-being.

This HR policy guidance resource offers comprehensive, broad-based, and collaborative suggestions on how to become more trauma-informed as an organization.

This guide incorporates the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) six guiding principles for trauma-informed conversations and meetings. It helps facilitators navigate the process and re-establish a healthy space when discussion becomes unfocused, with detailed practical applications and tips.

This 5-minute YouTube video provides a short mindfulness exercise focused on breathing and our heartbeat.

This fact sheet shares tips for identifying new employees who align with trauma-informed values and approaches to care, including sample interview questions. Hiring a workforce that embodies and embraces a trauma-informed approach is key to creating and sustaining organizational change.

In this six-minute YouTube video, Amy Gallo from Harvard Business Review walks us through how to stay calm in stressful work situations. These steps help us manage our emotions instead of heading into fight-or-flight mode.

Discusses impact of trauma on a person's health and ability for function in society; very comprehensive; provides techniques for creating a healthier workplace.

Dr. Tracey Marks talks about mindfulness and meditation how tos in a 7 minute video.

This worksheet uses the results of your "Self-Care Assessment" to create a self-care maintenance plan. At the Source link below, select the Community Resources tab, then choose the Self-Care Starter Kit. In Developing Your Self-Care Plan, complete the "Self-Care Assessment" and use this "My Maintenance Self-Care Worksheet" to identify current practices, consider new ones, and address any barriers to your self-care. You can also find the Self-Care Assessment in the resource with the same name.

Designing and implementing successful neurodiveristy hiring program. Steps include: set the course; prepare the workplace; create applicant processes; building an including workplace climate; sustainability and scaling; and resources.

This comprehensive toolkit covers the effects of employing the techniques of positive psychology to increase job satisfaction and work productivity; it encourages a strengths-based approach and a supportive environment. The toolkit goes into depth on PERMA, the essential elements of well-being: positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishments.

An employee can complete this brief quiz to identify areas where they do and don't care for themselves. The assessment looks at areas of self-care and offers many examples for easy responses: physical (do you get enough sleep, wear clothes you like), psychological (do you go on day trips, write in a journal), emotional (do you seek out comforting people or places, let yourself cry and laugh), spiritual (do you spend time in nature, meditate), relationship (do you make time for friends, ask for help when you need it), and professional (do you take a lunch break, take time to chat with co-workers, arrange your workspace so it's comfortable).

This poster from the University of Buffalo outlines eight core areas of self-care. Improvements in these areas help to restore our balance in our personal and professional lives.

This resource discusses how traumatic events affect families and staff, and offers three strategies to strengthen TIC practices: strengths-based attitudes and practices, reflective practice, and reflective supervision. This document also includes further resources to promote healing, resilience, and family well-being.

This one-page PDF explores stress journaling as a way to manage stress. It breaks down four prompts to help you tackle what irritates you in your own "thought record" journal.

In this four-minute YouTube video, Rene Godefroy discusses the impacts of stress on leaders and ways to manage stress in the workplace.

This five-minute YouTube video by The Partnership in Education teaches a quick method to reduce anxiety. Learn and practice the 5-4-3-2-1 method to feel present in the moment and less overwhelmed.

We can improve employee relations by enhancing workplace peace and providing support following traumatic experiences. This article touches on the principles of trauma-informed leadership approaches, including safety, awareness, attitude, choice, and strength. Scroll down to the Checklist for Trauma-Informed Workplaces for suggestions at pre-employment, during onboarding and orientation, and during ongoing employment.

This company offers online training, courses, and certifications with a "peaceful leadership" approach. See the "Free Stuff" tab for information on their free weekly classes and more.

In this six-minute YouTube video, you'll learn about the five ways to boost your well-being: connect, be active, take notice, keep learning, and give.

In this TEDx talk, Amy Gallo shares her funny and uncomfortable experience of disagreeing with a co-worker. Disagreeing is necessary, but how do we do it with compassion and kindness? How do we make a disagreement productive in the workplace? Learn all about conflictand the mistakes we make in this fifteen-minute YouTube video.

In this eight-minute YouTube video, Dr. Tracey Marks walks us through research-based techniques and tools to help us battle depression.

In this short YouTube video, Authentic Communication: The Power of Listening, Work Wisdom President Sarah Colantonio explains the impact of responsive and mindful listening. This video is the first in a series on communication, with the other videos available on their YouTube page linked below.

In this TED series video, This is What Makes Employees Happy at Work, Michael C. Bush shares what makes workers unhappy and ways to foster satisfaction.

This is a 3 page pdf that explores time management to improve work wellbeing

3-minute video helping to recognize and address chronic stress in the workplace from The Modern Worker

This website has many helpful resources.

The National Council for Mental Wellbeing provides sample interview questions with a trauma-informed approach for employment candidates.

This downloadable chart offers ideas and questions for creating safety, empowering people, and showing value.

In this 17-minute YouTube video, Stephanie Sundborg and Chris Wilson from Trauma Informed Oregon explain what trauma-informed care is, the science behind it, and share a few principles for caring communication.

This two-page checklist offers recommendations for a safe and welcoming social environment. Grantee Data Technical Assistance

This 50-minute YouTube video discusses the need for trauma-informed leaders, the fundamentals and impact of trauma, essential organizational and leadership competencies, and strategies for trauma-informed leadership. This video is presented by the Workplace Peace Institute.

53-minute Podcast presented by Sandra L. Bloom and #transformtrauma, a Campaign for Trauma Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP)

A 4-minute educational video about what self-care is and how to create a plan by Columbia University.

9-minute video from Dr. Tracey Marks on time management as a stress reducing action.