Following on from our previous discussion at Onlinevents, “Collective Disturbance and Vicarious Trauma Within Organisations”, where we explored some of the signs of organisations that are in distress. We spent our time today exploring some of the steps and strategies that organisations experiencing trauma can take to promote well-being, resilience, and recovery.
Elise Marshall and Norma McKinnon Fathi are co-founders and directors of the social enterprise, Mandala Consultants. Our mission is working collaboratively to nurture resilience and wellbeing within individuals, communities, and organisations; & to support social change. We engage a model of working that merges community development approaches with psychological and physical therapies to develop and deliver trauma informed services, training, and organisational support in the areas of transcultural working, wellbeing and resilience, trauma, vicarious trauma, and social change.
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Elise Marshall is a person-centred counsellor, supervisor and trainer and a registered, accredited member of BACP. Elise is also a professional massage therapist and qualified yoga teacher. She has over 14 years working with survivors of trauma including with those who have experienced childhood sexual abuse, sexual violence, domestic abuse and torture.
For ten years she worked as a psychological therapist with survivors of torture for a national charity where she also designed and delivered training. Elise is an honorary lecturer at Glasgow University School of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing.
Elise also has a small private practice as a counsellor, supervisor, yoga teacher and massage therapist as well as providing long term counselling for a small charity working with male adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. She is a co-founder and director of Mandala Consultants.
I’m a UKCP Registered Counsellor and Psychotherapist, and a qualified Community Worker. I have 20 years’ experience working with vulnerable people who have experienced trauma including survivors of childhood sexual abuse, childhood neglect, violence, conflict, and torture. I’m also an experienced manager, trainer, facilitator, and community engagement practitioner. For 11 years, my clinical work was with survivors of torture and I previously managed psychological services at a national charity. I work in private practice as a psychotherapist and supervisor, and am co-founder and Director at Mandala Consultants.