Antioch University Seattle Dean of Students Shana Hormann, PhD, is presenting at the Pacific Northwest Regional Student Veteran Conference hosted by the University of Washington-Tacoma on April 20, 2018.
Hormann, along with her colleague and AUS Organizational Psychology alumna Kristin Cox, MA, will present on organizational trauma. Their presentation is titled “From Organizational Trauma to Organizational Resilience” and will focus on how unaddressed trauma can affect a team’s effectiveness and how leaders and team members can work together to overcome organizational trauma and strengthen individual and team resilience.
“Many of our student veterans have worked in teams that were traumatized,” Hormann says. “Research has focused on military service personnel and first responders’ compassion fatigue, PTSD, and secondary traumatic stress. However, there has been almost no focus on organizational trauma. The phenomenon is little understood, with responsibility and blame being on individuals with no recognition of the systemic nature of the trauma experienced. I hope this workshop will provide a lens, that is, concepts and language for people to understand their experiences from an organizational perspective.”
Hormann’s work with traumatized organizations began in 1998. Along with her colleague and co-author Pat Vivian, Hormann authored the book Organizational Trauma and Healing and set up a website for people who want to learn more about the phenomenon.
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