Developing Your Culture
In this section, you’ll learn about the role of culture in sustaining a trauma-informed approach and define the values that will help promote a resilience-building culture in your setting.
Key Takeaways:
- One definition of culture is a “set of shared attitudes, values, goals, or practices that characterize an institution or organization.”
- The culture you nurture is going to help sustain your resilience-building efforts. As said by management guru Peter Drucker, “culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
- Culture works on multiple levels. Some of these levels are explicit, but many of them are implicit
- All organizations, communities, and families have a culture, whether it has been created intentionally or not. Part of being intentional is articulating a set of values for setting. Those values will help guide your implementation.
- As an example, we shared four values we defined for Origins. We chose these values because they are rooted in many of the key concepts behind a trauma-informed and resilience-building approach.
What’s Next
Activity & Discussion
Getting Started: A Guide from Trauma to Resilience
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