Emotional Safety Planning: Tools for Your Well-Being, before, during, and after a crisis

Description: Emotional safety planning is a process of thinking ahead about the supports and tools that someone can use in a crisis to care for their emotional well-being. With the increase in hate towards trans/nonbinary communities, it’s important that we take care of ourselves and each other. This training will share tools to develop or add to your emotional safety plan, discuss ways to access additional support, and provide a chance to briefly practice a few tools that may go into your own safety plan. All are welcome.

Primary audience: Community members

Presenter(s): Emil Rudicell

 

Bio: Emil Rudicell is from north Florida. They have been a community organizer and activist in a broad range of overlapping movements, with a focus on anti-violence movements, reproductive justice, and youth leadership. Emil brings over 20 years of experience working in direct service providing crisis intervention and peer counseling. They are a Project Coordinator with FORGE.

Timestamps:

Intro and housekeeping 0:00
Who is FORGE? 2:10
Agenda 4:20
Q: What do you find comforting? 6:40
What is emotional safety planning? 9:06

Contributors to crisis/overwhelm 12:25
Gender stressors 18:05
Q: How do you identify stressors/signs of crisis? 22:01
Preventing overwhelm: tools 27:43
Q: What are your tools for soothing? 32:40

Sometimes material conditions need to change 45:04
Seeking support 47:34
Conversation starters 52:35
Pod mapping 55:05
Reminders: questions to ask 57:35

Q: What helps during a crisis? 1:00:12
What do I do next? 1:07:50
Resources 1:12:26
Closing 1:17:59