Community Resiliency Model®, an introductory session

This free virtual session is open to anyone in the community and will introduce participants to the Community Resiliency Model® (CRM). CRM is a skills-based wellness and prevention program that provides a biological, non-stigmatizing perspective on normal human reactions to stress and trauma. CRM concepts help people understand their autonomic nervous system responses and, as they learn to track sensations connected to their own wellbeing, they may live life more fully.  The primary focus of this self-care stabilization program is to learn techniques to reset the natural balance of the nervous system.

CRM was developed in international disaster situations and will be of immediate use to Georgia nurses under the strains of the current Coronavirus pandemic.  CRM can be a shared language for talking about the pressures of the pandemic and the inherently stressful nature of front-line work.  In addition, it helps individuals who cope with chronic or cumulative stress, e.g., front-line workers and persons chronically exposed to violence, poverty, or racism.

The adoption of a program such as CRM at an organizational level will allow individual healthcare workers to gain resiliency skills, and in the presence of organization support for a resiliency culture, it may be expected that there will be reduced occupational stress, burnout, mental health compromise, and turnover. 

About the presenters 

 

Ingrid Duva, PhD, RN – Clinical Assistant Professor, teaches in the undergraduate and graduate nursing programs at Emory Nursing School. Her career focus has been to improve the work environment for nurses and other healthcare team members.  After gaining a CRM teaching certification, she began integrating the CRM skills to support wellbeing and enhance the communication between inter-professional teams. Over the past two years, Dr. Duva introduced these CRM emotional regulation skills to hundreds; teaching the model to individuals, community groups, organizations, and intact professional teams.

 

Dara Suchke is a nursing graduate from Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. She completed the CRM Teacher Training in March 2020 and became a certified CRM teacher in August 2020. In addition to weaving the Community Resiliency Model skills into her everyday life, Dara loves sharing and practicing these skills with her family, friends, patients, and community.

For questions or inquiries, please contact GNA Communications Manager Charlotte Baez-Diaz at charlotte.baez-diaz@georgianurses.org.