Community Resiliency Model: Back to Balance

This three-hour course is instructed fully live online via Zoom by instructor Rachel Galanter, MPH.

The Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® is an evidence-based, trauma-informed approach that equips helping professionals and community networks with the adoption of wellness skills to reset the nervous system. CRM's goal is to develop a common understanding of the impact of trauma and chronic stress on the nervous system and how we can all use wellness to return to a resilient space.

The wellness skills of CRM are designed to help adults and children notice and track their own nervous systems, in order to bring the body, mind and spirit back into greater balance. The Core wellness practices of CRM include:

• Tracking — Noticing sensations inside your body and intentionally attending to pleasant or neutral sensations
• Grounding — Focusing on direct contact between a part of the body and a source of support to enhance your ability to attend to the present instead of the past or future
• Resourcing — Cultivating sensory experiences based on positive memories to enhance sensations of well-being
• Gesturing — Using soothing physical movements to reinforce your sense of safety and calm
• Help Now — Quick tools you can use right away when you feel overwhelmed to shift out of survival mode

For helping professionals, CRM offers a dual benefit. It provides self-care tools to sustain well-being in demanding roles, while also offering a framework to guide clients in applying these skills. By integrating CRM into practice, professionals can help clients and communities cultivate resilience, restore balance, and strengthen their capacity for healing and connection. After applying CRM skills for self-care, CRM invites users to guide other people in utilizing CRM to help them return to their resilience zones.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Examine the impact of stress and trauma on our mind, body and spirit
• Identify strategies that activate the parasympathetic nervous system
• Demonstrate the use of Community Resiliency Model tools for self-care and to support others in returning to their resilience zone

Learner Level

Beginner

By participating in this class you will earn:

Instructional Hours	3
University of Wisconsin Continuing Education Units	.3
American Psychological Association - Continuing Education Credit	3
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services - Substance Abuse Counselors - Continuing Education Credit Hours	3
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services - Marriage and Family Therapists - Continuing Education Credit Hours	3
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services - Social Workers - Continuing Education Credit Hours	3
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services - Licensed Professional Counselors	3

Explanation of Continuing Education Hours