TRIGGERED TO TREASURED
In true form as we're talking about feeling and healing, there must be a conversation about triggers. Back in my early days with Creative Facilitation work, I was introduced to the framework of Comfort, Stretch, Panic (for a walkthrough on how to implement this in a meeting or group space, checkout "Toolkit: Decolonize Your Meetings" towards the back). What I loved about Comfort, Stretch, Panic is that it gave us a completely different approach to talking through triggers. Let's be real - someone was often feeling triggered in the spaces I was working in in those days because we were just on the precipice of pronoun usage and not nearly enough people had begun doing their personal anti-Blackness, anti-oppression work so everything we brought up had the potential for being triggering. As a participant in spaces, I witnessed entire agendas and meetings get derailed because the proper thing to do seemed to be to stop and make space for the person feeling triggered. As our work, and we all evolved Comfort, Stretch, Panic was an amazing tool to allow the person feeling triggered to name that and express to the group where they were at simply and then take accountability for re-calibrating.
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