Your Guides on the Journey to Resilience
Origins Training & Consulting helps educators, health care professionals, social service workers, and other leaders integrate a trauma-informed approach into their work so they can build more resilient organizations and communities.
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What You Should Know
What is Resilience?
Resilience is the ability to withstand or recover from difficult conditions. It allows us to think clearly, make intentional choices, communicate, and connect with others during stressful situations. Our resilience can be affected when we have frequent or long exposure to toxic stress from ACEs (especially when we don’t have protective factors to act as our “adversity buffer”).
What is a trauma-informed approach?
A trauma-informed approach is a framework for addressing the origins of a challenge so we can build resilience, achieve higher quality outcomes, and break the cycle of intergenerational trauma. When we apply a trauma-informed approach, we realize the symptoms ACEs can cause, dig deeper to recognize the root causes of these symptoms, and respond to the underlying need. This process allows us to resist going back to old habits and to create more resilient organizations and communities.
Praise from Past Participants
“The Resilience Champion Workshop Series helped start our team of direct care providers on our recovery path out of COVID. We felt stressed, fatigued, and our care tanks were empty (for ourselves and for our clients). With this workshop, we have been able to reconnect with why we do our work, and identify what we need to do our work as individuals and as an agency. With this knowledge we have been able to set a path as a team in which we share common language, goals, and needs. Recentering to this space has allowed us to start the hard work of understanding what we need and want our work to look like, then start implementing the change needed to get there as a team.”
Christina Michel-Albers
Executive Director & Speech-Language Pathologist
Northern CA Children’s Therapy Center
“I was truly fearful of what it would mean for us to become a trauma informed organization. I had heard from other leaders of how much time and resources they had put into their own efforts that I wondered whether this would be sustainable for us. However, Lori and Andi broke the concepts down for us in a way that was very bite-sized. Now I have no fear about being able to sustain our trauma informed care journey.”
Carmen Ibarra
Carmen Ibarra
Chief Executive Officer
The Achievable Foundation
“Working with Origins was so incredibly easy, and Andi and Lori walked with us every step of the way!”
Kristie Taylor
Principal
Clarion-Limeston
“I am thankful for the resources, guidance, and caring encouragement. I now know that I am not alone in this work.”
Emiko Ogawa
Care Worker
Hobokukan Fukuoka Japan
“Andi’s trainings have made me a better service provider, better employer, better healer, better person.”
Ruth Sager
Production Manager
Mesa Community College
“I found Origins took the knowledge to the next level; providing guidance and insight in how to put trauma informed care into practice.”
Cathy Hilario
Principal
Providence High School
“In addition to her excellent training, Andi has been a great partner to collaborate in our field to train others and advance our networks.“
Rev. Sanghoon Yoo
MDiv. The Faithful City, Arizona Trauma Informed Faith Community Network
“I’ve been to trauma trainings conducted by Andi and I found her wealth of knowledge in the field of trauma informed care and her compassion for others to be unparalleled.“
Paul Tweekerem
Therapist, MHC Healthcare
“It was great working with Lori and Andi to co-create a training series that uniquely fit our learning needs and culture. I really appreciated their flexibility and humor while going through the planning process and their energy while delivering the series to our managers. I received great feedback from the participants.”
Human Rights Watch
Senior Global HR Coordinator
Compassionate and knowledgeable professionals who’ve created accessible, memorable and applicable content. Appreciated the use of the personal stories to explain the information.
Mana Mozaffarian
Therapist, MHC Healthcare
