Volunteering with a Trauma Lens

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Companion Slides

The savior complex, predictability as intervention, and volunteer-specific boundaries.

Key Concepts

  • The savior complex: helping that's really about you
  • Predictability IS the intervention for volunteers
  • Short-term presence, long-term impact — being intentional
  • Volunteer-specific boundary challenges
  • Doing less, but doing it consistently and well

Part of

Module 6: Systems & Scale

Taking trauma-informed care from individual practice to organizational culture.

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