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Reach Your Goals Through Play
Friends and colleagues have asked me to let them know what I am doing because they want to work and play with me. This site has a few of the things that my team and I are doing together to make a difference in the world from the inside out. It may seem a little overwhelming, but this is the life in the Cio Circle. I would love it if you would like to join our endeavors.
I am a big dreamer using brain science to help people reach their goals through the perfect mixture of hard work and play. I use EMDR and LENS to help people find their ideal pathway to safety and connection. My solutions focused systems approach has motivated groups across the world to become more resilient and foster wellbeing. I strongly believe if we do everything with love, it will come back to you.
Ubiquity
We're taking a HUGE picture approach. We're looking at the barriers to success from every angle, every age and developmental stage, from everywhere we are, all at the same time. We each exist at the meeting point of so many identities and systems that we have to look at the big picture. We are building systems and communities that increase resilience, connection, and belonging on all levels.
Spectrum of Prevention
I was born into a public health mindset as the child of a public health community doctor and a 2nd grade teacher. Dr. Larry Cohen's creation of the Spectrum of Prevention made it possible to visualize what we knew was true all along. If you want to make lasting change for any problem, interventions at every level must happen at the same time.
Mapping Across the Spectrum
Every organization can map its work across the Spectrum of Prevention. On the left side, I have mapped the efforts I have taken in leading the Be It Foundation's work in South Texas. On the right are a few of the other initiatives I have prioritized to build world resilience and make sustainable change to decrease mental health stigma. Everyone really is going through something.
Strengthening Individuals - Got This! and RYGN
Just like one shot at a time can lower the risk of a communicable disease, access to quality mental health care create resilience against hardship and trauma. Unfortunately, we don't have enough mental health providers in general, and even less who can work with English language learners, folks with disabilities, or folks living in rural or isolated areas. I am training and uplifting a network of diverse therapists through Reach Your Goal Now Therapy. I also created Got This! App to guide my EMDR sessions and bring resources that I use to your fingertips on any device.
Download Got This! at https://gotthisinc.com/
For more information on individual therapy: https://reachyourgoalnow.com/
Community Engagement - Levelation
Resilient individuals create communities that are safe and connected. I work to create sustainable biospheres of resilience: a community that is able to meet it's own needs, foster connection and belonging, and cultivate its own fertile spiritual landscape for resilience and growth. I created Levelation to provide community-level interventions that will help create biospheres of resilience and thriving.
Join the community working to build world resilience at https://levelation.org.
Educating Providers - Reach Your Goal Now
Our providers have been struggling to meet the extremely high demand without enough backup, leaving continuing education as a chore rather than a place to play while we learn. We offer accessible continuing education for health professionals, teaching them how to address diagnosis and treatment in a holistic way through the Vagus Nerve. Rather than isolating mind, body, and spirit, we think about the person as a whole and consider how stress impacts the body. Dr. Stephen Porge's Poly Vagal Theory illustrates why 56% of US medical diagnoses are believed to be stress-related.
Check out one of our classes at https://reachyourgoalnow.com/teachable-courses/
Fostering Networks and Coalitions - Be It Foundation
Kipling said, "If you want to run fast, go alone." Well, we follow, McCormick's approach, "He travels farthest who pulls with his team." It's way more fun and successful when we bring people together to work towards bigger cause. The Be It Foundation's 5 year Advanced Practice EMDR and LENS Leadership Fellowship gets geographically isolated therapists trained in evidence-based practices and connected to a worldwide network of resources. This sends ripples through communities, addressing intergenerational trauma and prevention, and up further into the world of policy change.
Help us continue our work and replicate it across the world! https://beitfoundation.org/
Changing Organizational Practices
I've work with biotech companies, finance corporations, police departments, universities, sports teams, nonprofit organizations, and beyond to create organizational practices that promote resilience and wellbeing. Practices that inadvertently perpetuate fear and stress create isolation and victimization, even in well-meaning organizations. Let's work together to address your organization's wellness policies and see what happens to employee and student satisfaction, sickness, retention and performance!
Promoting Policy and Legislation
Policy makers and legislators rely on experts for guidance when creating policies to protect the public and promote well-being. I have taught students, therapists, and other health professionals how bigger structures influence themselves and their clients. I empowered them to meet with their legislators to present their needs and ideas for policy change. I myself have influenced policy change my entire career. Now my goal is to make EMDR accessible to everyone by getting all mental health workers trained and have state governments subsidize the cost of mental health care.
Finding time for Theta through Play and Flow
Dr. Martin Seligman's research in Positive Psychology described the 7 Signs of Happy People: quality relationships, positive mindset of optimism and gratitude, exercise and nutrition, flow, spirituality, kindness, and they know and use their superpowers. I would love to work and play together with you. Let's create communities where we can live in safety and connection!