Speaker: Christina Vargas, Lived Experience Mentor, Community Wraparound
Could you describe your overall experience with the Trauma-Resilient Professional certification program?
Christina Vargas: Hi and thank you so much for providing this training in regards to trauma. It not only helped me to process my own trauma situations, but now I feel very confident in being able to help others navigate through their trauma situations. So thank you so much for offering this training and I look forward to many more trainings that you guys will have to offer.
How have you implemented what you have learned in your day-to-day life?
Christina Vargas: So my day to day, uh, I'm learning that I don't have to have a fight or flight type or even fawn response. So I'm able to stop and process what's going on in my mind and not everything comes from a, uh, abused or, um, a bad place. So I'm actually able to stop and, you know, process my thoughts in a healed type of mindset.
What was your most meaningful takeaway from the Trauma-Resilient Professional certification program?
Christina Vargas: One of the greatest takeaways that I had was that I'm able to, one main thing I was always told was just deal with it. And while I didn't also have that mindset, but I, maybe I did secretly, but I didn't really show it. My most meaningful takeaway is I'm ok and I'm going to be ok.
Would you recommend this certification to a friend or colleague? If so, why?
Christina Vargas: I would highly recommend this, not only because it helps those in trauma or who have went through trauma, but there's also the element that there are some people that haven't, they haven't been through any trauma. So this would be something good for them to be able to meet people where they are instead of, um, instead of not just kind of like, uh, you know, that's not that I don't understand or that doesn't concern me to be able to see people in a different light that are dealing with trauma.
