Cultivate Development

06/19/2021

Dr. Love is a force of good in this world I got to participating a lecture she gave once a few years ago and it stuck with me. This is an incredible resource 🖤 for educators parents therapist and humans in general.

Hip Hop Civics Ed

04/22/2021

On my way to the Spingmont Montessori in lovely Sandy Springs on this chilly morning.

Looking forward to joining them in fascilitating some strategic planning around culture and climate.

I am really looking forward to seeing some familiar faces of exceptional educators.

Cultivate 🖤‘s Educators🍎

02/25/2021

Good morning ATL! So excited about today’s collaboration with Homes Of Light! I’ll be teaching Mental Health First Aid to staff that works in a really important housing program for Veterans and other folks with significant Mental Health diagnosis.

09/09/2020

We love Saint Brené. It’s been a decade since she released this landmark work. So this next ten days we will be visiting the guideposts!

For me it’s something small and something big. Small: wearing clothing that feels like me honoring my sense of style and owning it! BIG: answering friends questions like “How are you?” Honestly.

Both of these things empower me to be more my self when I show up in the world. 🖤

So, how are you cultivating authenticity today? What are you doing today to be your most authentic self?

09/02/2020

As caregiving professionals you’ve been bearing your own personal load as well as that of those you serve. This prolonged stress can be a catalyst for burn out if we aren’t being intentional about helping ourselves. Take a peek at these excellent suggestions for mitigating this season of crisis fatigue.

Q: What is crisis fatigue?

A: When life requires operating at “surge capacity” well beyond the initial surge. It’s bad for our brains and our bodies.

Experts* recommend Three P’s to help cope:

1. Pick your battles wisely
Put your energy into a few key priorities. Say “no” (or, if it’s helpful, “not yet”) to the peripheral.

2. Proactively seek joy
Joy is a hard-won, active practice. It takes intentional work.

3. Pull in your people
“Part of crisis fatigue involves pushing away your loved ones due to irritability and frustration, but this only makes stress higher in the long-term,” says Eric Patterson, a NYC-based licensed
counselor.

Stay safe, stay sane, stay hopeful. We WILL come through this together.

Love, Your Nerdy Girls

*References
“Surge capacity” article: https://bit.ly/3gTsaZ5.

Picking battles wisely, advice from Arianna Galligher, associate director of Ohio State University’s Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) program, quoted via WebMD: https://wb.md/34YXraK.

Joy as an active practice, advice from Harvard’s Dr. Karestan Koenen, quoted via WebMD (see link above).

Pull in your people, advice from Eric Patterson, quoted via Today: https://on.today.com/3gOk8AJ.

More great expert insight in this Psychology Today article: https://bit.ly/3gTsaZ5

06/15/2020

Anyone needing CEUs Do not forget about South Metro Mental Health Network!

This Friday there's a 3 hour event on children, trauma, and play techniques that is FREE to members. Membership is only $50 / year!

This session will be on Zoom so feel free to share with your network across the state (and wear your yoga pants 😉)

Date: June 19, 2020 Time: 9:00am - 12:15pm CEUs: LPCGA approved for 3 CEUs Speaker is Danyelle Weems of Waves Counseling Danyale Weems owns a private practice in rural Georgia where she specializes in children and adolescents with trauma and neurodevelopmental disorders. She has worked with children...

04/24/2020

We know that the Climate (how it feels) of our workplace comes directly from the Culture (values/expectations) curated by leaders and experienced by everyone in our organization.

If you are looking for ways to continue a culture of care, connection, and gratitude despite the distance and uncertainty i stumbled upon this set of free resources. These are digital tools to make acknowledgement, communication, gratitude and connection an intentional part of the workflow in simple but powerful ways.

Check it out it's free for a year!

At Workhuman®, it’s who we are and what we do. Twenty years of customer data proves when employees are empowered to recognize each other for the work they do every day, it forges deeper human bonds, connects them to meaning and purpose, improves performance, can cut turnover in half, and drives b...

04/22/2020

We hope to see you at Friday’s South Metro Atlanta Mental Health Professionals Network meeting— where we’ll learn about music therapy with Mark Toole from Back on Track Counseling for Kids!