Secondary Traumatic Stress & Resilience

This project aims: ‘to enable youth workers to be more aware and to be equipped in self-care to forestall the risk of Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) and increase Resilience’.
The 4 objectives:
• Establishment of continual reflective, self-assessment and self-monitoring
• Grasp of the anatomy and drivers of (mental) trauma, fear, anxiety, worry and STS
• Establishment of reflective self-care practices fostering resilience and inside-out decision making, including understanding the part that forgiveness can play in resilience
• Inter-cultural collaboration, across borders, with youth workers handling similar challenges – improving awareness and connectedness.

The project delivers workshops, online and face-to-face, which are informal, voluntary and self-diagnostic and are effective in the development of inner mental skills and resilience.

The tools, regularly practiced, establish and maintain mental buoyancy and the inner capacity to shift one’s inner states to higher functioning and thereby manage the pressures, stresses, influences we face every hour.

Timeframe:
• September - October 2023 - application for participation
• January till September 2024 - 10 online workshops on Sunday afternoons
• November 2024 - 6-day residential mobility activity (only for those that have attended the online workshops)
• December 2024 till March 2025 - Evaluation and Dissemination & Optional online workshops

For more information on the project these links may be helpful: https://www.feminenza.org/stories/categories/project-diary, Trauma Healing and Community Resilience | Feminenza International.