Trauma Theory
Sanctuary Commitments
S.E.L.F. Framework
The Toolkit
Complex Concepts
100

  A person’s internal and external resources are inadequate to cope

What is Trauma?

100

Eye rolls in a meeting
Gossip
Exaggerating results

What is the Commitment to Non-Violence?

100

The acronym SELF
stands for…

What is Safety,
Emotions,
Loss,
Future?

100

This Sanctuary tool is used to support effective emotional management

What is the Safety Plan?

100

The phenomenon in which people who have significant relationships with one another share thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

What is Parallel Process?

200

Chronic stress and adversity effect this much the same as trauma does

What is the Brain (Body)? 

200

The meeting after the meeting
Secrecy
Lack of information

What is the Commitment to Open Communication?

200

The 4 Domains of Safety

What are Physical,
Psychological,
Social, and
Moral?

200

The Sanctuary tool used to plan for or respond to a critical incident or challenging trend

What is the Red Flag Review?

200

A loss of empathy and hypersensitivity to violence can both be signs of this

What is Vicarious Trauma?

300

The brain’s self-protective response to avoid being overwhelmed by disconnecting

What is Dissociation?

300

Responding to client’s
sarcasm with sarcasm

Condescension

Slamming doors

What are the Commitment to Emotional Intelligence?

300

2 ways we use SELF

What are Problem-solving
Treatment Planning
Psychoeducation
Red Flag Reviews
Decision-Making
Assessment

300

Name a common but ineffective response to “How are you feeling today?” in a community meeting

What is Good, bad, fine, or ok?

300

The emotions related to a situation become disconnected and assigned to something else

What is a Collective Disturbance?

400

In Sanctuary, rather than diagnosing, labeling as bad, or asking “what’s wrong with you?”
we ask this

What is What Happened to You?

400

“That’s not my job.”

Being a bystander to a wrongdoing

Leaving dirty dishes in the sink

What is the Commitment to Social Responsibility?

400

All change comes with this

What is Loss?

400

Aside from training, it is through the use of this tool that the most is learned and experienced of Sanctuary

What is Supervision and Coaching?

400

The roles in the
Empowerment Triangle

What are Creator, Coach, and Challenger?

500

In a traumatic re-enactment, the person who assumes this role may often feel helpless and disempowered

What is the Victim role?

500

“But that’s how we’ve always done it”

Lack of institutional memory

Afraid of taking risks

What is the Commitment to Growth and Change?

500

Focusing on the future counteracts this symptom of trauma and stress

What is Hopelessness?

500

The Sanctuary tool used to protect against the effects of vicarious trauma

What is the Self-Care Plan?

500

Circumstances and relational dynamics from the past played out in the present 

What is Re-enactment?