On debriefing
Overview: Debriefing
This segment emphasizes the importance of debriefing in community work
Main Components:
What is debriefing: Participants will learn how debriefing in its current form started and developed over time. The structural and essential parts of debriefing as well as the stages.
Reflective Practices: Both individual and group reflective practices will be presented and discussed so that participants can easily choose the type that best suits the circumstances.
Personal and Professional Development: This segment emphasizes the importance of self-care, reflection, and continuous learning in sustaining personal well-being and professional growth among community workers.
Healer, Heal Thyself: Participants will explore the concept of self-healing as an essential aspect of personal and professional development in community work. Drawing on principles of mindfulness, resilience, and healing-centered engagement, participants will learn how to cultivate self-compassion, resilience, and inner peace amidst the challenges and demands of their work, skills for self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-compassion, empowering them to sustain their well-being and effectiveness as healers in their communities.
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Group Reflective Practices
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Introduction to debriefing
Sawyer, Taylor, et al. “More than one way to debrief: a critical review of healthcare simulation debriefing methods.” Simulation in Healthcare 11.3 (2016): 209-217.
Now, let’s see a mock debriefing meeting below:
The context: A young mother in Gaza has lost both her children at bombing. The persons who take part in the debriefing are volunteers and community workers who are part of the humanitarian help. One of them was present when this mother discovered the loss.
Reflective Practices (slides)
Selected references
“Psychological Debriefing for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” (https://www.div12.org/psychological-treatments/treatments/psychological-debriefing-for-post-traumatic-stress-disorder/). www.div12.org. Society of Clinical Psychology: Division 12 of The American Psychological Association. 19 August 2014.
Kinchin, David (2007). A Guide to Psychological Debriefing: Managing Emotional Decompression and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (https://books.google.com/books?id=yh
mAvMMsKgkC). Jessica Kingsley Publishers. ISBN 978-1-84642-661-2. OCLC 175298673 (https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/175298673).
Raphael, Beverley; Wilson, John (2003). Psychological Debriefing: Theory, Practice and Evidence (https://archive.org/details/psychologicaldeb00raph). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1 (https://archive.org/details/psychologicaldeb00raph/page/n10). ISBN 978-0521647007.
Tannenbaum, Scott I.; Cerasoli, Christopher P. (2013-02-01). “Do Team and Individual Debriefs Enhance Performance? A Meta-Analysis”. Human Factors. 55 (1): 231–245. doi:10.1177/0018720812448394 (https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0018720812448394). ISSN 0018-7208 (https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0018-7208). PMID 23516804 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23516804). S2CID 22260709 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:22260709).
It’s not ideas, nor vision, nor tools that truly matter in therapy. If you debrief patients at the end of therapy about the process, what do they remember? Never the ideas—it’s always the relationship.” — Irvin D. Yalom (The Schopenhauer Cure)
“It’s a pleasure to share one’s memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe—though we didn’t know it at the time. We know it now. Because it’s in the past; because we have survived.” ― Debriefing: Collected Stories
“Pain shared is pain divided, and you are only as sick as your secrets. In a debriefing, you have the opportunity to share those secrets and to share your pain as you come together to help each other through a traumatic event. Those who say that they do not” — Dave Grossman (On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and Peace)
“Author has developed a routine of daily emotional debriefing with his kids as he tucks them in at night. To encourage the habit of keeping uncluttered, open heart, he starts with basic questions asking whether anyone has hurt them or made them angry to help them process at an age-appropriate depth. As they mature, he will add questions.” — Andy Stanley (Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You)