The Community Resiliency Model (CRM) comprises six wellness skills aimed at nurturing individual and community resilience. These skills highlight the innate human capacity to enhance well-being by cultivating body literacy and leveraging positive life experiences to foster inner balance. They serve as a framework for wellness practices, integrating seamlessly into daily activities to restore harmony between mind and body.
Body literacy involves attuning ourselves to internal bodily sensations and honing the ability to interpret how these sensations influence our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. By developing this skill, we can better understand and manage our "body sense," promoting a state of equilibrium.
Central to CRM is the concept of the Zones, providing a straightforward way to understand lived experiences. The Resilient Zone (RZ) or Zone of Well-being (ZOW); the High Zone; and the Low Zone represent varying states of emotional and physiological arousal. In the RZ/ZOW, individuals experience optimal cognitive function, emotional regulation, and bodily awareness, navigating a range of emotions naturally. However, when faced with traumatic or stressful events, the nervous system's equilibrium may be disrupted, leading to being bumped out of the RZ/ZOW.
At times, anyone can be displaced from their RZ/ZOW, struggling to cope even with minor stressors. CRM aims to help children and adults learn to identify the sensations, feelings, and thoughts associated with each zone, facilitating the recognition of shifts between them. For some, prolonged exposure to stress or trauma may result in consistent displacement from the RZ/ZOW, leading to chronic feelings of agitation in the High Zone or numbness and fatigue in the Low Zone. This fluctuation between zones can manifest as a turbulent emotional journey, impacting daily functioning and relationships.
CRM refrains from judgment regarding these zones, acknowledging their existence as part of the human experience. By cultivating awareness of our current zone, we can adopt more adaptive coping strategies guided by compassion and self-understanding. Through the application of personal skills and strengths, individuals can strive towards reclaiming a greater sense of well-being.
The six skills can be learned conversationally by posing questions connected to each one. Using CRM skills in conversation can remind a person to ask, “What else is true?” in life.
Conversational Resourcing
Conversational Tracking
Conversational Grounding
When we ground, we can sense and think in the present moment, not the future or past.
Conversational Gesturing
Most people have movements or gestures that help soothe them when distressed.
Conversational Help Now!
When a person is in the High or Low Zones, some of the strategies below may help move them to the RZ/ZOW.
Conversational Shift and Stay
If a person notices distress within the body and is in the High or Low Zones, shifting awareness to thoughts, feelings, and sensations of well-being can help return to the RZ/ZOW.
Learning to cultivate your well-being takes time and practice. It is like cultivating a garden. You can decide to nourish your garden of well-being.
References
Miller-Karas, E. (2023). Building resilience to trauma: The trauma and community resiliency models. Second Edition Routledge.
Freeman, K., Baek, K., Ngo, M., Kelley, V., Karas, E., Citron, S., & Montgomery, S. (2022). Exploring the usability of a community resiliency model approach in a high need/low resourced traumatized community. Community Mental Health Journal, 58(4), 679-688.
Grabbe, L., Higgins, M. K., Baird, M., Craven, P. A., & San Fratello, S. (2020). The Community Resiliency Model® to promote nurse well-being. Nursing Outlook, 68(3), 324-336.
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The Community Resiliency Model (CRM) comprises six wellness skills aimed at nurturing individual and community resilience. These skills highlight the innate human capacity to enhance well-being by cultivating body literacy and leveraging positive life experiences to foster inner balance. They serve as a framework for wellness practices, integrating seamlessly into daily activities to restore harmony between mind and body.
Body literacy involves attuning ourselves to internal bodily sensations and honing the ability to interpret how these sensations influence our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. By developing this skill, we can better understand and manage our "body sense," promoting a state of equilibrium.
Central to CRM is the concept of the Zones, providing a straightforward way to understand lived experiences. The Resilient Zone (RZ) or Zone of Well-being (ZOW); the High Zone; and the Low Zone represent varying states of emotional and physiological arousal.........
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