Creating Presence with Dr Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy
The Creating Presence Show with Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy
Episodes
November 20, 2024 • 60 mins
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy define the health of organizations by the flow of communication within them, emphasizing the significance of diverse perspectives when it comes to complex problem solving.
They go on to describe the structure and warning signs of collective disturbances and their root in communication breakdown, typically between the highest levels of an organizational hierarchy and the lower.
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November 13, 2024 • 60 mins
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy explain the consequences of communities and organizations under stress, noting an incapacity for long-term learning and knowledge integration.
They discuss the power of confirmation bias to lead to extremism, often creating group polarization through effectively discouraging or silencing dissent. As a result, decision making and problem analysis deteriorate significantly.
The hosts conclude with...
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November 6, 2024 • 60 mins
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy connect collective trauma with organizational amnesia and the subsequent inability to learn from the past.
Making the distinction between tacit and explicit knowledge, they discuss the dangers of short term organizational memory and the factors that contribute to it, including massive layoffs and our cultural norm of short term tenure.
To conclude, the hosts unpack the power of stories to tap the...
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October 30, 2024 • 60 mins
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy lay out the fundamental characteristics of those who are high in authoritarian traits and how they perpetuate the destructive impact of authoritarian leaders – whether in organizations, systems, or countries.
Then the hosts describe types of toxic leaders and their use of bogus empowerment to feign democratic participatory practice.
They conclude with partnerism, an economic alternative to capita...
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October 23, 2024 • 60 mins
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy explain some of the reasons for various antisocial behaviors and what they look like in children and adults.
On this topic, they discuss the four “dark traits” and what happens when individuals possessing these traits infiltrate our organizations and systems.
Finally, the hosts describe the concept of a social immune system and its role in defending against the impact of antisocial individuals.
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October 16, 2024 • 60 mins
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy discuss the wounds of othering widely experienced by BIPOC and offer guidelines for having safe and effective discussions about race.
Drawing connections between trauma reactive organizations and systems that rely on white supremacy, they conclude with strategies to disrupt those destructive systemic patterns and create organizations that truly value and support people of all cultures and backg...
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October 9, 2024 • 60 mins
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy explain the various social constructs that act as the driving force behind most human suffering today.
Diving into the history of humankind, they offer research and evidence to support the fact that the human way of life was once largely peaceful, and suggest some explanations for the social de-evolution of our societies.
The hosts conclude with the encouraging understanding that we have the powe...
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October 2, 2024 • 60 mins
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy consider the impact of collective, historical, and cultural trauma in our society and their cumulative effects on multiple populations.
This dialogue additionally touches on the consequences of collective denial, which often manifests as splitting, political polarization, and war.
Our hosts conclude with reassuring research surrounding the institution of various types of justice within our organi...
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September 25, 2024 • 60 mins
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy address the crisis of workplace health and wellbeing, noting the interconnectedness of social, economic, personal, and job stress.
Within this conversation, the hosts address the larger underlying factors creating such stressed systems, including the use of business model principles for our healthcare and human services industries.
They conclude with a tool to assess and improve organizational f...
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September 18, 2024 • 60 mins
Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy offer a biological understanding of the human stress response and explain the significance of this knowledge, particularly for leaders, in our modern world and workplace.
Unpacking the history of our current paradigm that treats organizations as machines, they use the body as a metaphor to reveal that our organizations are actually living systems, and treating them as such would effectively promote and su...
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September 11, 2024 • 60 mins
Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy explain the impact of attachment trauma and how our early life experiences shape our long term health and wellbeing.
With this in mind, they provide an overview of the ACEs study and draw connections between trauma, behavior, and how difficulties of one individual can translate into collective problems in the workplace.
Ultimately, they use the role of emotions in the human experience and our fundamental ne...
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September 4, 2024 • 60 mins
Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy dive into the principles and practices underpinning Creating PRESENCE, their newest intervention to help leaders and their organizations integrate trauma-informed practice.
In this episode, Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy explain the importance of shifting from, What’s wrong with you to What’s happened to you? and the implications of this perspective change for our systems of care. Furthermore, they elab...
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August 28, 2024 • 60 mins
Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy detail how developing democratic skills can function as an antidote to the effects of trauma and adversity on any scale.
Then they outline two standard types of leadership and decision making and how they fit - or don’t fit - in the context of a democratic organization.
Finally, the hosts discuss the importance of a justice climate in promoting democracy, speaking about the power of restorative justic...
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August 21, 2024 • 60 mins
Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy provide an in-depth look at double loop learning and what makes it an essential part of trauma informed practice.
They highlight six common thought habits that keep staff stuck in single loop learning patterns, offering alternatives that aid organizations in fundamentally changing the way they approach decision making and problem solving.
Finally, the hosts overview onboarding processes as the gatewa...
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August 14, 2024 • 60 mins
Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy advocate for the integration of our emotional brain with our logical brain in order to unlock more effective ways of thinking and problem solving.
With the importance of emotional understanding in mind, they look at mirror neurons and the biological factors that connect us to each other, including the capacity for empathy.
Finally, the hosts dive into the history and risk factors of vicarious trauma ...
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August 7, 2024 • 60 mins
Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy highlight six components of managing complexity in living systems that all leaders should be aware of.
Furthermore, they unpack what leaders need to know in order to effectively manage the process of organizational change, touching on the difficulty of loss as well as some of the reasons why we may resist trauma-informed change in particular.
Finally, they offer a thinking technique to open up decisi...
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July 31, 2024 • 60 mins
Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy explain how the SELF acronym helps people impacted by trauma and adversity make sense of their experiences and pave a path toward healing and recovery.
Extending their conversation to the workplace, they also unpack how SELF can help individuals facilitate more productive conversations and interactions, particularly between leaders and staff, through addressing and reframing any topic of discussion using ...
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July 24, 2024 • 60 mins
Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy illustrate the difference between task and interpersonal conflict, noting how to recognize when a simple problem is devolving into something more complex.
They explain the role that our biology can play in escalating conflicts in all types of settings, as well as tips on developing regulation skills to keep disputes from growing into deeper issues.
Finally, they provide specific skills for effective con...
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July 17, 2024 • 60 mins
Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy discuss the nature of traumatic reenactment and our biologically-based preference for familiarity, explaining the connection between behavior and the unconscious mind.
Then, they dive into the Drama Triangle as the foundation for understanding traumatic reenactment, as it is at the center of relational conflicts, describing each of the roles one can play when drawn into a reenactment.
Finally, they provi...
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July 10, 2024 • 60 mins
Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy analyze various leadership styles and describe circumstances in which some approaches are more effective than others.
With President and CEO of Lakeside, Gerry Vassar, they consider attributes and attitudes of an effective leader, especially in times of such intense polarization. Furthermore, they discuss tools to constructively lead an organization using trauma-informed values, what it looks like to recog...
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