Disaster Recovery Essentials

Name: Disaster Recovery Essentials
Brand: Hummingly
Availability: InStock

Facilitated training Disaster

Strengthen your team's capacity to support disaster recovery with practical tools and proven strategies.

A role in disaster recovery is a tough gig. Doing it well takes a foundational knowledge of the challenges and realities of recovery and strategies for working well with disaster-affected people.

Equip your people to have a positive impact with communities hit by disaster. We know first-hand the challenge and weight of responsibility of getting it right for affected communities. We’ve spent the last decade packaging up the learning from disasters so you can equip your people for their role and maximize recovery outcomes for those hit by disaster.

This training equips you with the essential skills and strategies to provide meaningful support and make a lasting impact when it matters most. Whether you're a seasoned disaster recovery professional or someone looking to bolster your team’s capacity to navigate post-crisis challenges, this training will empower you to step up when communities need you the most.

Through real-world case studies, hands-on exercises, and expert insights, you'll learn how to communicate effectively with disaster-impacted individuals, prepare for the challenges ahead and implement practical solutions that foster community recovery - all in ways that respect the community's unique culture and context.

Objectives

• Develop Key Skills: Build an understanding of the lived-experience and common challenges that community face through recovery. Gain a clear understanding of how to support both disaster-affected communities and your team during long-term recovery efforts.

• Prepare for what's ahead: Unpack what common recovery challenges will mean for your work supporting communities.

• Improve Communication: Understand the cognitive science behind ‘disaster brain’ and the implications for communicating with communities. Explore effective communication techniques tailored to the unique needs of disaster-impacted communities.

• Implement Proven Tools: Walk away with practical tools to foster long-term community recovery that can be used immediately.

• Build Team Resilience: Learn strategies to safeguard your team’s mental and emotional health while they provide frontline support.

Key Topics Covered

• Understanding the Human Element in Disaster Recovery: Insights into the psychosocial impact on disaster-impacted communities and those supporting them.

• Putting the Community Experience at the Heart: Dive deep into the long-haul process of recovery as experienced by communities

• Effective Communication in Crisis: How to tailor your messaging and approach that accounts for the very real impacts of 'disaster brain' and meets the emotional and practical needs of impacted communities.

• Building Team Resilience and Well-being: Strategies to ensure your team’s sustainability and well-being under cumulative and prolonged pressures.

• Preventing harm: Examine power differentials and the role of secondary stress (where support inadvertently harms)

• Benefit from the insights from hundreds of others who found themselves in a recovery role: 'What I wished I'd known'.

Please get in touch to discuss the needs of your organization or team.

Testimonials

Jeannie Mansill, CEO, Project Unity

Finally, the answer we needed!

“Our staff are in high-stakes situations on a daily basis and it's taken an emotional toll. After all these years of not having an answer to the challenges they face, this in-depth approach to the self-care of staff who are pressured day in and day out was just what we needed.”

Natasha Wright, Director of Business Operations, TrustLab

Helped us meet the challenge

"Hummingly's workshop offer vital tools to help folks keep up with the crazy speed of innovation in the start-up world while also looking out for the human side of things.”

Kasey Harlos, Senior Director, 211 Colorado

Now confident, ready and prepared

"This workshop ensured our team has the resiliency and wellness tools we need to prioritize our own individual and team wellness as we continue showing up for our community in need. Thanks to Hummingly, we are confident, ready, and prepared to continue to answer every call with compassion, grace, and kindness. We cannot thank Hummingly enough.”

Meet your facilitator

Jolie Wills

B.SC., M.SC(PSYCHOLOGY)

Jolie has a Masters in Cognitive Psychology and is a leading psychosocial expert in disaster and disruption. Jolie has studied how the mind works under prolonged pressure, how we make decisions and how our reactions and behaviors are impacted by stress. Jolie is a survivor of the Christchurch earthquakes and has lived disaster recovery with her family first-hand. She led the psychosocial recovery program for New Zealand Red Cross in response to the earthquakes and has supported those working in disasters around the world. Jolie is a Winston Churchill fellowship recipient, a Leadership New Zealand alumna, an Edmund Hillary Fellow, a co-author of Leading in Disaster Recovery: A Companion through the Chaos and is an advising member to the global Counter Terrorism Prevention Network.

Disaster Recovery Essentials

Testimonials

Jolie Wills

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