TRAUMA & TRUTH
THE GAME OF STIgMA
Before you begin, please choose your opponent between the Chess Players or The Stigma Players. PLEASE NOTE: When playing this game of Chess and Stigma you must choose if you are a Change Agent of Hope, or a Pessimist Player.
THE CHESS PLAYERS
The King
The Queen
The Rook
The Bishop
The Knight
The Pawn
THE STIGMA PLAYERS
Public Stigma
Self-Stigma
Perceived Stigma
Label Avoidance Stigma
Stigma By Association
Structural Stigma
Health Practitioner Stigma
When making your move in this game of Chess verse Stigma, it is important to focus on how to change the old biases systems to reflect new ideas that helps create hope for all people no matter race, gender or culture.
NOW- The primary objective of this game called Chess & Stigma is to capture your opponent with Leadership tools, Integrity and ethics for change while keeping your focus on empathy, to move beyond the negative attitudes or discrimination against someone that involves stigma.
HOW TO WIN
Choose your opponent wisely…It is not always about winning. It is about strategically making an impact for change and transformation one step at a time. -Rhonda L Johnson
What is Resiliency
Did you know that:
Resilience or Resiliency is the ability to recover quickly from misfortune; able to return to original form after being bent, compressed, or stretched out of shape.
Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress— such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems or workplace and financial stressors. It means “bouncing back” from difficult experiences.- Education
Resilience in a person reflects a dynamic union of factors that encourages positive adaptation despite exposure to adverse life experiences.
Did you know:
Before one can bounce back from the challenges of life, one must know and understand their issues of adversity first.
There is a test know as the ACE Study. The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE Study) is a research study conducted by Kaiser Permanente health maintenance organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).[1] Participants were recruited to the study between 1995 and 1997 and have been in long-term follow up for health outcomes. The study has demonstrated an association of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) with health and social problems as an adult. The study has been analyzed extensively, is frequently cited as a notable landmark in epidemiological research, and has produced more than 50 scientific articles and more than 100 conference and workshop presentations that look at the prevalence and consequences of ACEs-According to Wikipedia
What is it that helps resilience happen?
For each person there may be choices they make, resources they turn to, strengths they draw upon or insights they apply. By becoming interested in the steps people take that help them deal with adversity we learn more about how resilience is done.
Remain hopeful:
You can’t change the past, but you can always look toward the future. Accepting and even anticipating change makes it easier to adapt and view new challenges with less anxiety.
Education:
There are three main aspects within the concept of resilience.The ability to achieve positive results in high risk situations
The ability to function competently in situations of acute or chronic stress
The ability to recover from trauma
While defining resilience, it is also essential to distinguish it from factors that modulate it and related concepts such as invulnerability, stress resistance, adaptive behaviors, and mental toughness. –According to the Indian Journal of Psychiatry