Free Emotional First Aid Kit to use at work...or anywhere!
Irith Williams
Inclusive Researcher and Designer | Seeding systems transformation through inclusive codesign | Trauma-informed Strategy, Design, Research | Accessibility advisor | DEI | The Emotional First Aid Kit
Sitting at a desk, hyperventilating. Crying in a toilet cubicle. Leaving the building feeling ready to explode. Do these sound familiar? Have you ever experienced workplace distress?
In 2023 I collaborated with Vanetta Morrison MACC (reg) MBACP and ?? Dr Gyles Morrison MBBS MSc on 'The Emotional First Aid Kit'. I wrote it specifically for people to use at work.
Last year I ran a little 'content pilot' and it was very successful. Since then, Vanetta, Gyles and I have decided to publish it under a Creative Commons license.
Why did we do this seeing people loved it? Because we didn't want to exploit people's data to commercialise it...and there is no other straightforward path to viability.
We are aware that it would work very well in the Employee Assistance Program space...but none of us have the expertise, the network or the bandwidth to pursue the EAP market...so, Ta Da!
The Emotional First Aid Kit is built using a number of principles and frameworks.
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You can find explanations and references to all of these in The Emotional First Aid Kit.
The structure of TEFAK is simple:
We hope that people find it helpful..and we are offering it for free beyond personal use.
If you want to use TEFAK for your own work you can. The Emotional First Aid Kit is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0. You may use or reproduce this work for non-commercial use as long as you attribute the work to Irith Williams and Vanetta Morrison MACC (reg) MBACP and link to the Licence.
Inclusive Researcher and Designer | Seeding systems transformation through inclusive codesign | Trauma-informed Strategy, Design, Research | Accessibility advisor | DEI | The Emotional First Aid Kit
8 个月Richie Khoo
Inclusive Researcher and Designer | Seeding systems transformation through inclusive codesign | Trauma-informed Strategy, Design, Research | Accessibility advisor | DEI | The Emotional First Aid Kit
9 个月Murali Maheswaran
I design accessible services with communities
11 个月Great starting point for some conversations here, thanks for sharing. Definitely have been thinking about care planning, protective factors and safety ... But sometimes you just need to know how can I support others or myself through a tricky time.
Writer at Authoright
11 个月Great idea
? Infrastructure Engineer ? DevOps ? SRE ? MLOps ? AIOps ? Helping companies scale their platforms to an enterprise grade level
11 个月Such an important resource for workplace well-being, thank you for sharing! ?? Irith Williams