Tune in today at noon to CFRU 93.3fm, streamable at cfru.ca, for the newest episode of "Bridging the Social Distance". Today Jenny interview Becca and Tom of CAST Canada. "CAST" - which stands for "Come and Sit Together" is an organization that is brought into spaces to help professionals, corporations and communities better understand the role of trauma and unresolved grief in human suffering and behaviours. They have recently been working with the Village of Riverside Glen and Schlegel Villages to support staff in response to the trauma of this pandemic. Jenny and CAST talk about their practice, and the importance of creating safe and supported spaces for processing heavy feelings, of sitting with grief without trying to "solve it", and they share some of what they have been witnessing as common-themes amongst the experiences of caregivers. They speak to the necessity of remembering to practice self-care and do whatever we can to rejuvenate and recover so we show up in these difficult spaces for the people we love and care for. They also talk about the value of organizations investing in this type of work to support their staff - in times of trauma and loss, but also when we're not in crisis, to try to normalize the act of creating space for big feelings and better prepare us for crisis.
You can learn more about CAST Canada at
https://www.cast-canada.ca/
And you can read a bit about their most recent work with Schlegel Villages at:
https://schlegelvillages.com/.../perseverance-courage-and...
This interview was originally recorded on August 5th, 2021
