Action Steps
Identified by UO Leaders participating in winter 2022 Trauma-Informed Workshops
Selected sample

• Incorporating trauma-informed leadership into leadership development opportunities for students. 

• Build good professional relationships with colleagues that allow me to connect. This is an important precursor for discussing distressing information. 

• Be overt and intentional about understanding what safe spaces look like and working diligently to create them. 

• Review departmental policies and practices and remove barriers to inclusion 

• Redesign meeting processes and protocols so that all members of the community feel heard.

• Address the gender dynamics of trauma in my department. 

• Continue working with faculty and staff to incorporate trauma-informed practices into syllabi, recruitment and outreach practices

• Apply the SCARF model to my own leadership and to leadership frameworks in my department

• Read the Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

• Introduce the trauma-informed concepts that I learned to my unit leadership.

• Practice daily remembering that there is probably trauma in the room and being mindful of language, presence and empathy for others.

• Look for opportunities to repair the harm that was done when we eliminated two BIPOC colleagues’ jobs in our unit.