International LabÂ
Mitigating Trauma in Your Organization: An Invitation for Organizational Leaders
March - December 2024 | Monthly 2 Hours
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“Recognizing and mitigating trauma is a core leadership challenge. Leaders need to face the human challenges that are rapidly coming in a post-COVID era, grapple with the topic of trauma and restore vitality in their organizations.”
Dr. Gisela Wendling & Monica Murarka
Shape the Evolution of Your Organization
In partnership with the Pocket Project, a non-profit dedicated to growing a culture of trauma-informed care, Dr. Gisela Wendling and Monica Murarka are inviting a small group of organizational executives to attend this year-long, intimate program. We are committed to developing trauma-informed leaders and are offering this program pro bono for those who are accepted.
Our goal is to welcome a group of leaders who represent a breadth of organizational experiences and cultural backgrounds and who are dedicated to exploring this topic.
We invite senior leaders at an organization (corporate, non-profit, start-up, governmental or academic institution) who feel called to shape the evolution of their organizations to join together in this conversation and exploration.
What is the Lab Experience?
Over the course of a year, you will meet monthly with other organizational executives in an online group to:Â
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Grow your understanding of what trauma is and how it shows up.
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Explore ways to mediate and proactively address the presence of trauma in your organizations.
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Personally grow as instruments of restoration.
With the support of Dr. Gisela Wendling and Monica Murarka in their roles as Collective Trauma Integration Facilitators, you will deepen your awareness, understanding and digestion of organizational trauma causes and aftereffects, and build your capacity to mitigate the impact of trauma in your own organization.
Initially, we will attend to establishing a welcoming, safe and confidential relational field. We will also introduce several individual and group practices to support emotional and somatic regulation proven to be helpful when exploring this sometimes challenging topic. From there, we will move from noticing trauma patterns in the organizations we work with to recognizing how individuals and teams are affected by the presence of trauma, learning about resources that support trauma mitigation and healing and developing personal resourcefulness in the presence of trauma.
When Will We Be Meeting?
Monthly group sessions via Zoom. Generally, the first Friday of every month. Starts March 1, 2024.
Dates: Mar 1, Apr 5, Apr 26 (not May 3), June 7, July 12 (not July 5), Aug 9 (not Aug 2), Sept 6, Oct 4, Nov 1, Dec 6.
Time: Americas Hemisphere: from 9:00am – 11:00am PST all dates,
European Hemisphere: from 18:00 - 20:00 all dates except Nov 1st, from 17:00 - 19:00.
About Your Facilitative Guides
Gisela Wendling
Gisela Wendling, PhD is CEO at The Grove Consultants International. With over 30 years of experience, she is known for guiding large system-wide visioning and change alignment projects, supporting leaders and their organizations to realize visionary futures.
As a cross-disciplinary thought leader in the social sciences, she integrates emerging transformational change approaches with insights from indigenous wisdom and healing traditions. She has been described as a visionary anthropological theorist whose grounded and inviting style helps clients befriend the unknown, embrace change as transformation, and support others doing the same.
She is the author of The Liminal Pathways Study and the co-author of Visual Consulting: Designing & Leading Change and the Leading as Sacred Practice eBook.
Gisela was born and raised in Germany, and has been living on the West Coast of the US for over 30 years. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Monica Murarka
Monica Murarka has 25 years of experience advising global companies on business, operations, talent and organization strategy while working at two leading professional services firms, Towers Perrin and McKinsey & Company. Monica has held multiple operational roles including Chief Operating Officer of McKinsey’s Global Organization Design practice, Chief Operating Officer of McKinsey’s CEO & Board Excellence practice, and Global Head of the McKinsey Talent Network.
Monica’s mission is to help people and systems BE – uncover, connect, transform and amplify themselves for the sake of living their purpose. She is currently an executive coach and transformational facilitator with Mobius Executive Leadership, a leadership embodiment teacher with the Strozzi Institute, a student with Somatic Experiencing (a body-oriented therapeutic model that helps heal trauma and other stress disorders), and a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) San Francisco Bay Area Coaches Board of Directors.
She has co-authored numerous articles including The Five Trademarks of Agile Organizations, participated in interviews including In Conversation: The CEO Moment and contributed to the creation of a best-seller book, CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets that Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest.
Monica was born and raised in the Midwest United States and lived on both the East and West Coasts of the United States, in Europe, in India and Latin America. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.