Workshop: Trauma-Informed Museum Practices: A Foundational Approach
June 20, 2024
Thursday June 20, 2024 11:00am - 2:00pm ET Online via Zoom Price: $65 for OMA members, $85 for non-members
Speaker: Dr. Ross Laird, PhD RCC, Clinical Consultant
Museums have begun to grapple directly with complex issues like climate change, residential schools, refugees, and systemic racism in deeply purposeful ways. However, when they do so, they also encounter the trauma that is interwoven with these themes: personal trauma, cultural trauma, and intergenerational trauma. Visitors can be traumatized or re-traumatized by exhibits and displays, staff can be vicariously traumatized through interactions with visitors or through interactions with colleagues, and leaders can be traumatized by organizational turbulence, burnout, and emotional fatigue.
In this workshop session, participants will learn about the basic dynamics of trauma, how these dynamics play out in a museum setting, and how organizations can develop and sustain practices to minimize the risks of ongoing harm. It will also address questions surrounding how museum professionals can stay emotionally healthy, how museums can develop strategies to ensure employees do not slide into trauma or distress, and how museums can promote wellness and resilience within their organizations and communities.
Please note: This session will not be recorded
Read more and register HERE.
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