
Tuning in to Yourself is the Foundation of Wellbeing
While many useful assessment tools exist to help you determine your current Wellbeing profile, we’d like to invite you to first apply the tool of your own ability to attune to yourself.
Trauma informed leaders understand that people (including themselves) will struggle due to current and past traumatic experiences. They recognize the importance of presence for themselves and their teams to facilitate coping and growth. Four relational practices, attuning, wondering, following, and holding, provide a mental model for intentional and consistent presence. The practices of attuning, wondering, following, and holding bring therapeutic relationships to life. Each of them describes a way of interacting with patients, and they also describe a mindset and a way of being. Attuning is “tuning in” to ourselves and others. Wondering is being truly interested to learn about the other. Following is listening acting on what we learn. Holding is creating a safe haven and to protect from harm.
While many useful assessment tools exist to help you determine your current Wellbeing profile, we’d like to invite you to first apply the tool of your own ability to attune to yourself.