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(TLDR: Thoughts on trauma with a relevant open question at the end.)
I wanted to take a moment and talk about trauma responses and how we, as people, try to get our needs met in a state of trauma.
What happens when we try to create areas that are 1 ) not trauma inducing and 2 ) are trauma informed while still experiencing trauma?
Trauma, in general:
When we're in a traumatic situation, we learn a lot of maladaptive responses. By that I mean we learn things that help us push through and/or survive the situation, but that damage healthy relationships. This is one of the earlier things that people in trauma recovery learn: "Let go of what no longer serves you."
Examples of things like this: it is common an abusive relationship to be told to Document Everything. Paper trails, possible camera recordings, etc. to keep yourself safe. BUT! When you transition from "unsafe" to "safe", these same behaviors are typically really invasive to your new partner, even if they understand why you're doing what you're doing.
Multiple spaces:
One aspect of trauma recovery focuses on what happens when the traumatic event ends. You've left your abuser, you've started to having savings after a life of poverty, etc. The skills and processing that happens here is different from enduring the trauma while it is still happening.
I think about this a lot, and heavily, at Nivenly 
(and it's projects, like Hachyderm 
) and others. Because the world is currently very trauma inducing and it is very difficult to ask people to unlearn patterns that hurt them, when they've been reinforced that those are the only patterns that are successful.
I do have more things I'd like to say, but in the now I want to pivot to a public discourse to hear what you have to say.
* How do you recognize when you're in a trauma free, but trauma informed, environment?
* What do you do when you want to participate in, organize/run, or create these environments?
* Or what are any general thoughts you have?
Scope broad: not just online, not just "events" like conferences, just a very open discussion 
I'm so thankful for Pixelfed's growing team, we now have designers, app developers, devops and project managers that are working together on some pretty amazing things!
We're thriving together, and I couldn't be happier to delegate roles and control to those more experienced 
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Guest performance on 14 + 15 March 2025 > An impressive, touching theatre solo by Tommy Wiesner: Eddy grows up in a segregated world—violence, hard work, and clear role models are the order of the day. But Eddy is different; he doesn't fit in, and he realises this every day. His youth becomes a fight for himself—in the end, there is only one option: get out. Édouard Louis' internationally successful debut novel poses the question: How do I escape the world I'm made of into one I've never been in? After A WOMAN'S FREEDOM, actor and director Tommy Wiesner now returns to the THEATER AN DER GLOCKSEE with Édouard Louis' autobiographical story of liberation.
#theater #roman #edouardlouis #befreiung #klassismus #queerness #gastspiel #hannover #kultur #theaterglocksee #bettertogether
#FBPE #RejoinEU Trump’s failures are our chance to rise. Let’s show the world what real leadership looks like. Step up, speak out, and let’s make it happen. #NewEra #LeadershipMatters #HopeNotChaos #LetsMakeItHappen #BetterTogether #WeCanFixThis
Let's talk a little bit about how people can work together. This isn't when times are easy - oh we agree so things are great! - I mean when we disagree. When times are hard. When people do things that are harmful, but to be clear not to the degree of harmful that there's no path back to community and back to working together.
To keep our communities together and inoculating against splitting (see link), what do each of you do? Not what you say or tell, but what you do and feel comfortable doing.
Alte und neue Gesichter. Bei den Stage Fries tut sich was…
Stay tuned
#stagefries #jungestheater #neuesstück
#selbstgeschrieben #neuesstückneuesglück #theater #ensemble #ensembleliebe #bettertogether #theaterlife #theaterliebe #theaterpädagogik #alibotheaterpädagogik #alibotheaterschule #alibotheatertanz #performance #velbert #alibotheaterschulevelbert #masken #maskenarbeit @alibo
This year’s theme is “Together for a better internet” & that’s certainly something we can get behind. We’ve seen repeatedly right here on the Fediverse that we're #BetterTogether & what we can do when we come together as a community - let’s keep doing it!
Video is a few minutes in length, worth a listen.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DF0pXGbys_k/
Towards the end she makes a comment about class solidarity, which reminded me of a topic I like to talk about: communities. Communities working together, pooling resources, and supporting each other. While spreading information about community support, and raising awareness, is very important (and most of what social media is, when communities and social media overlap), doing work in your communities is important for them to survive.
What work will depend on what the community is doing and what skills the members of the community can provide and need to source. Maybe the community is a literal garden, and it needs to be watered, weeded, and harvested. If the community garden only has people who spread the word there's a garden, but not people who plant, water, weed, and harvest, then there will soon be no garden.
Abstracting this out, when times take a turn for the worse, it is important to remember to prioritize your communities. Communities are how we survive hardship and thrive in abundance. Community action, moreso than individual action, is how we support each other, ourselves, and create change.
Prioritizing our communities can feel like a recipe for burnout, especially when a rapidly increasing number of us are feeling resource constrained for an ever increasing number of reasons. The strongest communities are built by those who know what activities nourish their souls and support their communities by doing those activities.
Perhaps it nourishes your soul to volunteer at your local soup kitchen. Perhaps it nourishes your soul to provide snacks and water at your local protests. As an overly specific example, I have a friend who specializes in data and supports her local community's homeless services by ensuring that services are being provided in areas that reach where the homeless population is currently distributed.
The point is: know yourself. Ask your communities what help they need, assess your skills, determine what help you can provide, and follow up by doing it.
Da man offenbar auch die grundlegendsten Selbstverständlichkeiten ausformulieren, aussprechen und unterstreichen muss: Ich bin Mitglied in einem Berufsverband, auch weil dieser ein „Manifest für Vielfalt“ formuliert hat, hinter dem ich in jedem Punkt uneingeschränkt stehe. Das zu betonen fühlt sich ein wenig an wie sich vorzustellen mit „Hallo, ich bin der Flo, ein Mensch“, aber so sind die Zeiten. https://www.bdg.de/themen/good-work/manifest-fuer-vielfalt/ #BDG #BetterTogether
hr1-Dancefloor heute 
80/90s Style
'Leuchtreklame' - Irgendwo in Rom, kurz vor Weihnachten: Zusammen sind wir besser (We're better together) #FotoVorschlag #Leuchtreklame #zusammen #together #Fotografie #LED #photography #BetterTogether #Schaufenster
This election, let’s choose unity over division! We’re stronger together, beyond the hate and fear.
Stand for respect, empathy, and progress for all. 
@KamalaHarrisWin @KamalaHQ @DemocracyMattersALot @womensvoices @lgbtq
This election, let’s choose unity over division! We’re stronger together, beyond the hate and fear.
Stand for respect, empathy, and progress for all.
@KamalaHarrisWin @KamalaHQ @DemocracyMattersALot @womensvoices @lgbtq
I’m putting together a #workshop about #symbiotic relationships between #humans and the #sea. Do you have inspiring examples from your work? Or film / art / book references? Send them over! #posthuman #postanthropocene #postplastic #crowdsourcing #bettertogether
Scottish Labour candidate tells voter his party "didn't bother at all" in 2019 in order to let the Tories win the Aberdeen South seat.
'I was hoping that [the Tory candidate] could win it,' he told a voter in this shocking video. "We had a wonderful relationship when working together. As coalition partners we had brilliant times."
#BetterTogether trumps everything for this shower of charlatans.
I wouldn't be where I am today without communities of practice. So here is my shout-out to the communities that a value the most, and also an encouragement to start your own! Thank you for helping me get better every day!
https://softwarecrafters.org/
https://frogsconf.nl/
https://codefreeze.fi/
... and more that I have contributed to are on https://coderbyheart.com/communities
If you’re interested in how connections are made among entities in the research ecosystem through the adoption of #PIDs & how @datacite, @ORCID_Org & @crossref work together to make it easy, then watch the recording of this Better Together webinar
https://youtu.be/Wt0AOq-TIPU?si=fU0c9kmzZz3LLwyO
#OpenScience #OpenResearch #Metadata #Connections #PersistentIdentifier #BetterTogether @sysg
Two MPs who represent English constituencies.
No voices to speak for Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
Still - #BetterTogether, eh?
https://www.itv.com/news/2024-05-29/itv-to-host-first-head-to-head-general-election-debate-between-sunak-and-starmer
@AnthonyFStevens #BetterTogether my arse. That's a choice between two options we don't want. Not entirely sure why you think the state of the SNP is even relevant to that situation.