Season 3: Episode 17 Best Practices in Trauma-Informed Leadership: Trauma-Informed Design Artwork

[Trauma-Informed] Leadership Uncensored

When aspiring and emerging leaders see, read and learn how even seasoned leaders lose their balance and recover, it humanizes the struggle, it places their trauma, vulnerability and empathy right in the middle of the room and we emotionally connect to it. LEADERSHIP UNCENSORED strips away the pretentiousness and openly discusses the good, the bad, the funny, the ugly, the lessons, the failures, the tears, the embarrassments and of course, the rewards of leadership.

All Episodes

[Trauma-Informed] Leadership Uncensored

Season 3: Episode 17 Best Practices in Trauma-Informed Leadership: Trauma-Informed Design

October 13, 2022 • Dr. Dawn Emerick • Season 3 • Episode 17

Trauma-informed design is about weaving the principles of trauma-informed practice into architectural design with the goal of creating physical spaces that promote safety, collaboration, empowerment, well-being and healing.

Over the last 15-20 years, there’s been a sweeping effort by urban planners and landscape architects to create healthy community design and health-based zoning. But what’s good for the community is good for the workplace, right?

There is a strong link between our physiological state, our emotional state and the physical environment, especially at work. Research has shown how the physical environment can impact a person’s attitude, mood and behavior. It also means that intentionally designing and maintaining healing environments at the office leads to empowerment and resists retraumatizing those who have already experienced so much trauma.

Join me in welcoming three founding members of the Trauma-Informed Design Society-- Davis Harte, Christine Cowart, and Janet Roche for this episode of Leadership Uncensored. Learn more about their groundbreaking Trauma-informed Design Evaluation Tool for K-12 Schools funded by the American Society of Interior Designers Foundation.