What is Trauma-Informed Care Consulting?
Stress is everywhere. It impacts our lives at home and at work, leading to burnout, compassion fatigue, and disconnection.
With Origins, organizations have a partner in developing practical solutions for stress management, communication barriers, and team-building skills. Our approach consists of guiding organizations through a process to build a culture rooted in connection and wellness.
We know that each organization and community has unique strengths and struggles. Starting with a free consultation call, we work with prospective clients to design a custom package designed to meet the needs of all levels of the organization, including leadership and staff in all roles.
While every training plan is unique, each project starts with establishing a common language for understanding how stress is triggered and its impact using a trauma-informed framework. From there, we develop workshops for leadership, all staff, and specific departments or roles that support the translation of these concepts into operation to solve problems such as:
- Siloed organizations
- Compassion fatigue, stress and burnout among employees
- Staff turnover and poor morale
- Conflict and escalations
- What to do after an ACEs training
While we will discuss the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences /Adverse Community Environments (ACEs), our offerings are more than just another ACEs training! Our workshops model the trauma-informed approach that you will bring back to your team demonstrate how to integrate leadership, culture-building, and mindfulness into your specific setting.
Sectors We Support
While our trauma-informed training is effective no matter what role or sector you’re in, the people we work with most often include:
Benefits of Trauma-Informed Care
The world is changing and the workplace is changing with it. Organizations across sectors are adopting a trauma-informed approach to create a more resilient workplace culture. Understanding the impact of stress on you and your work environment can help organizations at all levels offer transparent communication and create predictability.
We can support you as you address—and overcome—challenges like burnout, compassion fatigue, turnover, and conflict. Origins will support you and your team to:
- Establish a common language to improve communication and increase teamwork.
- Identify techniques so that meetings energize rather than drain!
- Integrate mindfulness techniques into daily practice to help reduce stress.
- Develop skills to practice wellness and connection.
- Improve communication skills to help support conflict resolution and connection among staff and clients.
In any setting and throughout all levels of an organization or community, from how employees are managed, to how policies and procedures are written and implemented, to how a physical environment is designed, you will see transformation in how workplace culture can support workforce wellness.
Praise from Past Clients
“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.”
-Senior Global HR Coordinator, Human Rights Watch
“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, Chief Executive Officer, The Achievable Foundation
Our Approach
Working with Origins starts with a free 30-minute consultation call where we will learn about your organization, explore the goals you hope to achieve, and identify an action plan to fit your budget. You will then receive a customized proposal that will include options for training workshops and consultation suggestions that we will review with you and your team. Services can generally start within a month depending on availability. Ongoing consultation throughout the training process will be included to support the sustainable integration of the approach. Your personalized training plan may also include ongoing check-ins via video or in-person, group coaching, and implementation support.
Meet the Team
Andi Fetzner PsyD
Andi Fetzner is a co-founder of Origins Training & Consulting. Her training mantra is, “You don’t have to be a therapist to be therapeutic.” Drawing from her personal and professional background, Andi uses real life examples to explain how this approach can be applied across sectors. She lives in California with her two dogs, Brutus & Princess.
Lori Chelius MBA, MPH
Lori Chelius, MBA/MPH is a co-founder of Origins Training & Consulting. Andi and Lori work with organizations across a number of sectors to build strong foundations based on solid values, build resilience, and provide even better care for the people they serve. Lori lives in California with her wife, three kids, and their dog, Oliver.
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Contact us today for a free consultation for you and your organization.
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