Role/User of Resource: Managers / Supervisors
4 Tips to improve gender equality at work – Yourtoolkit.com
Trauma and the Brain – NHS Lanarkshire
This animated video was designed to help professionals working with victims of gender-based violence to understand the impacts of trauma on the brain.
This animation illustrates:
- How someone who has experienced rape or sexual assault might react in a police interview
- How a professional might respond to a service user if they do not know the effects of trauma
- How this can affect information and evidence gathering, and attitudes to victims
- How ‘secondary’ trauma can affect workers
- The three main parts of the brain and what each part does
- How the brain responds to danger – the survival instinct
- How instinctive ‘fight’, ‘flight’ and ‘freeze’ responses protect us
- Indicators of trauma
- Trauma-informed techniques for professionals to use, including a demonstration.
Co-Design Toolkit – WACOSS
Dadirri – Miriam Rose Foundation
Dr Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr describes Dadirri as the practice of Deep Inner Listening and quiet still awareness, which connects us and nurtures spiritual well-being.
This short video provides space to listen deeply, sit in stillness, and reconnect with ourselves, others, and the environment.
Balancing Cultures: Walking in Two Worlds – Jahna Cedar TED Talk
How can we be better allies, friends, and colleagues of our our indigenous brothers and sisters? Jahna Cedar has spent a lifetime navigating two worlds with differing practices and responsibilities – code switching. She believes that for reconciliation to progress, code switching needs to be better understood and more widely recognised. Jahna, a proud Nyiyaparli/Yindjibarndi woman from the Pilbara region, has spent over 20 years advocating for equal rights for Indigenous people in Australia.
Western Australian Mental Wellbeing Guide – Mental Health Commission
The Western Australian Mental Wellbeing Guide has been developed to update and strengthen the mental health promotion component of the Western Australian Mental Health Promotion, Mental Illness, Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Plan 2018-2025. While best read in conjunction with the Prevention Plan, the Mental Wellbeing Guide can also be used as a standalone document that provides advice regarding evidence-based approaches to enhance mental wellbeing.
This resource is related to Foundations for Change Capability 6.1.