1. Community Resiliency Model
Created by Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW and Laurie Leitch, PhD
Trauma Resource Institute
Slides by Miller-Karas (2012)

2. Community Resiliency Model Skills
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Community Resiliency Model Skills
TRACKING
refers to monitoring of sensations
RESOURCING
Using positive or neutral factors to create non-traumatic sensations
GROUNDING
Being fully present in the moment
SHIFT AND STAY
Shifting to a resource and staying in the resource state
RESOURCE INTENSIFICATION
Expanding details of the Resource to build the strength of positive sensations
AMP DOWN OR
RAMP UP NOW
Strategies to get back R-Zone
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SKILL 1-Tracking
Tracking refers to monitoring sensations
Tracking is the foundation for stabilizing the nervous system
The person learns to distinguish between sensations of dysregulation and sensations of balance within the nervous system
Rather than inquire about feelings, sensations are explored
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4. Skill 1:Tracking
Observation of the client’s nervous system and biological responses
Heart rate, breathing rate, muscle tension, temperature, body movements, facial expression
The self-tracking
What do you notice happening inside?”
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5. SKILL 2: Resourcing
External Resources include positive experiences and memories and can include the people, places, activities, skills, spiritual guides, hobbies and animals we know and love
Internal Resources include experiences, values and beliefs that sustain, support and that give confidence and inner meaning
personal characteristics such as kindness, compassion and humor
body resources such as strong legs, good sleeper, straight spine, healthy GI system
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6. SKILL 2: Resourcing
Building resources helps expand the ability to bounce back into your Resilient Zone.
Positive sensations and memories bring a direct experience of well-being that helps stabilize the nervous system
A person learns that there are sensations in the body that are less uncomfortable, neutral, or positive

7. Skill 3: RESOURCE INTENSIFICATION
Ask 3 or 4 additional questions about the resource to expand the sensations connected to the resource
When describing a resource, it makes the memory stronger
Which helps to shift awareness from unpleasant sensations
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8. SKILLS 2&3: Identifying Resources
Write down three resources 
Circle one resource
Write down 3 or more details about your resource
Read your resource and the three details about your resource
As you read about the resource, notice what happens on the inside

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Skill 4:Grounding
Is the direct contact of the body with the ground or with something that provides support to the body
Grounding is necessary to be in the present and to experience safety in mind, body and spirit.
The person is encouragds to track sensations while finding a comfortable position. Grounding can be accomplished while:
Sitting on a chair/sofa/ground, or
Standing against a wall or hard surface, on
Lying on the floor/bed/sofa/ground
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10. Skill 4:Grounding
If our relationship to the earth is not safe, then all other relationships do not develop in the best ways
When we are grounded, we have a sense of self in relationship to space in the here and now
We are not worried about the past or the future

11. SKILL 5:AMP DOWN OR RAMP UP NOW
Can be used by the practitioner to help a person amp down or ramp up
Can be taught to family members to help the a family member get back into his/her resilient zone if he/she is stuck on high or low
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12. SKILL 5:AMP DOWN OR RAMP UP NOW
Drink a glass of water
Look around the room or wherever you are, paying attention to anything that catches your attention
Name six colors you see in the room (or outside)
Open your eyes if they have a tendency to shut
Count backwards from 10 as you walk around the room
If you’re inside, notice the furniture, and touch the surface, noticing if it is hard, soft, rough, etc…
Notice the temperature in the room
Notice the sounds within the room and outside
If you’re outside or inside, walk and pay attention to the movement in your arms and legs and how your feet are making contact with the ground.
Push your hands against the wall or door slowly and notice your muscles pushing.
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SKILL 6: SHIFT AND STAY
CRM Wellness Skill
A skill that is taught as a wellness skill for self-care.
The person learns to shift from distress, discomfort and/or overwhelm
To a resource
To grounding
To a sensation that is more comfortable or neutral
To the AMP DOWN or RAMP UP strategies
Shift and Stay is a skill used when a person becomes bumped out of their resilient zone
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14. THE BODY HAS A WISDOM THAT WORDS CANNOT SPEAK
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