Benchmarks’ Center for Quality Integration will add Community Resiliency Model (CRM) Trainings to its’ regular training offerings in 2023. Our team is thrilled to have completed the training by the Trauma Resource Institute© in this trauma-informed, resiliency-focused wellness model. CRM is an affordable, adaptable, and portable model that can be taught to anyone as young as the age of three. The only requirement needed to learn these biologically based skills is that a person has a nervous system!
CRM is not therapy, but it is a valuable tool that can be used to help people cope with life difficulties until they are able to access therapeutic services. CRM encourages participants to learn to identify when they are in their “OK” or “Resilience Zone.” This Zone is when a person is in a state of well-being in mind, body, and spirit. Once someone knows what their regular “OK Zone” looks like, they can more easily name when they are bumped into their “high” and “low” zones. This usually means that they are not functioning optimally, and the nervous system is off balance. For example, someone who becomes very angry about being cut off in traffic, and curses at the other drivers on the road, is most likely in their “high” zone. Someone who finds it difficult to get out of bed due to grief or depression may be in their “low” zone. Being bumped out of one’s zone is not necessarily bad, as it is a normal part of life. The problems occur when we get stuck in our “high” or “low” zone and are unable to bring ourselves back into our “OK Zone.” The graphic below from the Trauma Resource Institute© can help us visualize our nervous system responses and the zones that we can move in and out of in our daily lives.
What are the benefits of having your agency trained in CRM’s Basic Three skills, you may ask? So many of us have already received so much trauma training in the past few years—what else could we learn? One of the benefits of CRM training is that it is not only trauma-informed, but it is focused on resiliency and builds upon resources that an individual already has within themselves and their lives. As mentioned earlier, it is an affordable, adaptable, and portable model. Our CRM trainers can adapt the model to any audience based on their needs. The skills can be taught in as little as an hour, or trainings can go much more in depth. Adults that work within our helping systems need access to as many immediate resources as possible to help themselves to stay in their “Resilience Zones” so that they can best help others. CRM is one of these immediate resources that participants can use as soon as they finish with training. Also, people who are more self-regulated can model this nervous system regulation and CRM skills everywhere they have a positive impact on others in their home, their workplace, and even on the road and in the grocery store! CRM skills can be used simply to offset our day-to-day stressors or even to help begin the recovery process from natural disasters. CRM skills are those that can be learned and used throughout the lifespan in all circumstances because stress will always be a part of our lives. But we have hope that we can effectively deal with our stressors because we have access to a wellness model that can be utilized by so many!
An agency or business can start by offering CRM skills training to their staff as a self-care tool and then can expand to offer the skills training to the populations they serve. Communities can offer CRM training as another way to enhance wellness opportunities offered to their citizens. All of Benchmarks’ CRM offerings can be found at https://www.benchmarksnc.org/training-catalog-2/
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