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Explore trauma-responsive research, practices, and resources developed by the Greenleaf team.

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Audio Tools

Finding Calm: Meditations & Yoga Nidra

Utilize these guided meditations (ranging from 2–10 minutes) to help you find calm in high-stress workplace environments.

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Articles & Publications

Partial Recovery from the Pandemic: Still Picking Up the Pieces

The Partial Recovery phase after a crisis experience involves risk of fragmentation. Learn individual and group practices to move toward integration and build healthier tools for coping.

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Pre-Traumatic Stress: What’s Next?

Learn about the impact of post-traumatic and pre-traumatic stress by exploring the experience of state and national capital workers around the events of January 6, 2021.

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Organizations Must Mitigate Occupational Trauma and Its Effects

Explore trauma’s causes and effects, the impact of occupational trauma on workforces, and how organizations can support a path to improved wellbeing.

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Reflections on 9/11 and the Suffering of Our Helpers

Greenleaf founder, Dr. Siddharth Ashvin Shah, shares learnings from his experience as a medical resident in New York City during the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath.

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Ethical Standards for Transnational Mental Health and Psychosocial Support

Important components of bioethics are routinely underappreciated in cross-cultural and transnational mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) efforts. Explore examples of cultural errors and/or harm by outsiders delivering MHPSS.

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Mental Health Emergencies and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Complex emergencies and large-scale disasters produce enormous and multifaceted mental health morbidity. Explore a “best practices” framework for selecting and applying mental health interventions for public health emergencies.

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Preparing Workforces for Demanding Environments

Health care, construction, law enforcement, counseling and social work professions have threats, pressures, and circumstances that create high levels of cumulative stress. How can workplaces mitigate these circumstances?

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3 Principles of Effective Staff Care

How can organizations better discern the specific difficulties faced by their staff? How might we fine-tune staff care programs so that prevention and intervention both hit the bull’s-eye for diverse needs and mindsets?

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“To do no harm,” Spiritual Care and Ethnomedical Competence

Explore a framework for psychosocial trauma recovery involving re-fashioned categories and new terminology in hopes of bringing to life the pitfalls and potential solutions of global trauma work.

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Greenleaf Case Studies

Trauma-Responsive Programming for Democracy and Governance with the National Democratic Institute in Côte d’Ivoire

Learn how Greenleaf equipped the National Democratic Institute in Côte d’Ivoire to implement trauma-responsive design and equip NDI staff, partners, and participants to better understand and respond to trauma.

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Trauma-Informed Design: What is it?

Learn about how trauma-informed approaches and using trauma-informed design at an organizational level improve client experience and program outcomes.

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Mitigating Workforce Impacts of COVID-19 and Other World Events

In this article published in the Journal of Emergency Management, Greenleaf staff offer helpful insights for navigating the stress of events that affect the wellbeing of staff and organizations.

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Interviews & Videos

Notes on Resilience: A Quest for Ethical Action in the World

Greenleaf founder Dr. Siddharth Ashvin Shah joins Notes on Resilience with Manya Chylinski to discuss the important, ongoing work of building resiliency.

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Articles & Publications

Partial Recovery from the Pandemic: Still Picking Up the Pieces

The Partial Recovery phase after a crisis experience involves risk of fragmentation. Learn individual and group practices to move toward integration and build healthier tools for coping.

Read Article

Articles & Publications

Pre-Traumatic Stress: What’s Next?

Learn about the impact of post-traumatic and pre-traumatic stress by exploring the experience of state and national capital workers around the events of January 6, 2021.

Read Article

Articles & Publications

Organizations Must Mitigate Occupational Trauma and Its Effects

Explore trauma’s causes and effects, the impact of occupational trauma on workforces, and how organizations can support a path to improved wellbeing.

Read Article

Articles & Publications

Reflections on 9/11 and the Suffering of Our Helpers

Greenleaf founder, Dr. Siddharth Ashvin Shah, shares learnings from his experience as a medical resident in New York City during the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath.

Read Article

Articles & Publications

Ethical Standards for Transnational Mental Health and Psychosocial Support

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Articles & Publications

Mental Health Emergencies and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

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Articles & Publications

Preparing Workforces for Demanding Environments

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Articles & Publications

3 Principles of Effective Staff Care

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Articles & Publications

“To do no harm,” Spiritual Care and Ethnomedical Competence

Explore a framework for psychosocial trauma recovery involving re-fashioned categories and new terminology in hopes of bringing to life the pitfalls and potential solutions of global trauma work.

Download Article

Articles & Publications

Trauma-Informed Design: What is it?

Learn about how trauma-informed approaches and using trauma-informed design at an organizational level improve client experience and program outcomes.

Read Article

Articles & Publications

Mitigating Workforce Impacts of COVID-19 and Other World Events

In this article published in the Journal of Emergency Management, Greenleaf staff offer helpful insights for navigating the stress of events that affect the wellbeing of staff and organizations.

Download Article

Greenleaf Case Studies

Trauma-Responsive Programming for Democracy and Governance with the National Democratic Institute in Côte d’Ivoire

Read Case Study

Interviews & Videos

Notes on Resilience: A Quest for Ethical Action in the World

Greenleaf founder Dr. Siddharth Ashvin Shah joins Notes on Resilience with Manya Chylinski to discuss the important, ongoing work of building resiliency.

Listen to Interview

Audio Tools

Finding Calm: Meditations & Yoga Nidra

Utilize these guided meditations (ranging from 2–10 minutes) to help you find calm in high-stress workplace environments.

Listen to Playlist

Insights & Tools

Explore trauma-responsive research, practices, and resources developed by the Greenleaf team.

Finding Calm: Meditations & Yoga Nidra

Partial Recovery from the Pandemic: Still Picking Up the Pieces

Pre-Traumatic Stress: What’s Next?

Organizations Must Mitigate Occupational Trauma and Its Effects

Reflections on 9/11 and the Suffering of Our Helpers

Ethical Standards for Transnational Mental Health and Psychosocial Support

Mental Health Emergencies and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Preparing Workforces for Demanding Environments

3 Principles of Effective Staff Care

“To do no harm,” Spiritual Care and Ethnomedical Competence

Trauma-Responsive Programming for Democracy and Governance with the National Democratic Institute in Côte d’Ivoire

Trauma-Informed Design: What is it?

Mitigating Workforce Impacts of COVID-19 and Other World Events

Notes on Resilience: A Quest for Ethical Action in the World

Partial Recovery from the Pandemic: Still Picking Up the Pieces

Pre-Traumatic Stress: What’s Next?

Organizations Must Mitigate Occupational Trauma and Its Effects

Reflections on 9/11 and the Suffering of Our Helpers

Ethical Standards for Transnational Mental Health and Psychosocial Support

Mental Health Emergencies and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Preparing Workforces for Demanding Environments

3 Principles of Effective Staff Care

“To do no harm,” Spiritual Care and Ethnomedical Competence

Trauma-Informed Design: What is it?

Mitigating Workforce Impacts of COVID-19 and Other World Events

Trauma-Responsive Programming for Democracy and Governance with the National Democratic Institute in Côte d’Ivoire

Notes on Resilience: A Quest for Ethical Action in the World

Finding Calm: Meditations & Yoga Nidra

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