Child Life Specialists are navigating the physical, emotional and spiritual affects of the cumulative care taking trauma experienced during a global pandemic and humanitarian crisis.

Creating a Psychologically Safe Space will discuss; 

-Emotional regulation versus emotional repression
-Internal regulation, cohesiveness and neutrality 
-Heart Space and how emotions are energetically communicated 
-How energetic communication occurs at an unseen level
-How to be with the trauma not of it
-Ways to integrate the 3 components of Self Compassion into both personal and professional life 
-Warning signs of over identification and how to navigate the  Modes
-Practicing on the job self compassion  while caring for yourself and the patient simultaneously 
-Recognizing and holding space for your own humanness 


Presenter; Tara Ryan Kosmas, MSN, RN, CHSE, SOAR
Founder
Debriefing the Front Lines Inc 
Heal the Healers Programs
Tara is a Masters prepared nurse and holds both debriefing and peer support 
certification. While working as a Nursing Professor and Simulation Lab Director at 
Towson University in Baltimore Maryland, she founded Debriefing the Front Lines, Inc. 
and created the Heal the Healers Programs.
Through professional education and lived experience as a pediatric burn survivor, Tara 
created a psychologically safe space for nurses to come both alone and in commUNITY
for support.

5 Sample Questions

True or False. Emotions affect our hormonal and nervous systems but also our heart rhythm.

  • A. True
  • B. False

What are the 3 components of self compassion?

  • A. resilience, community harmony, mindfulness
  • B. Kindness, openness, ethics
  • C. Loving kindness, community harmony, ethics
  • D. Loving kindness, community harmony and mindfulness

What is the goal of emotional regulation?

  • A. Reduce human suffering
  • B. reduce compassion fatigue
  • C. decrease resilience
  • D. increase emotional intelligence

All of the following are modes of over-identification except?

  • A. sympathetic
  • B. warrented
  • C. holistic
  • D. defensive

What is the solution to over-identification?

  • A. To engage less.
  • B. To take a step back.
  • C. To care less .
  • D. To care more about yourself.

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