Partnered with a Survivor: David Mandel and Ruth Reymundo Mandel
This podcast is a series of conversations.
What started as a series of intimate conversations between Ruth and David that ranged from personal to professional experiences around violence, relationships, abuse, and system and professional responses which harm, not help, has now become a global conversation about systems and culture change. In many episodes, David and Ruth are joined by a global leader in different areas like child safety, men and masculinity, and, of course, partnering with survivors. Each episode is a deep dive into complex topics like how systems fail domestic abuse survivors and their children, societal views of masculinity and violence, and how intersectionalities such as cultural beliefs, religious beliefs, and unique vulnerabilities impact how we respond to abuse and violence. These far-ranging discussions offer an insider look into how we navigate the world together as professionals, as parents, and as partners. During these podcasts, David and Ruth challenge the notions which keep all of us from moving forward collectively as systems, as cultures, and as families into safety, nurturance, and healing.
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Partnered with a Survivor: David Mandel and Ruth Reymundo Mandel
Season 4 Episode 1: Using the Concept of Partnering with Survivors to Promote Worker Health and Well-Being
Working with domestic violence means professionals come into contact daily with complex and challenging trauma. Beyond the complexity involved with working toward the safety of the family, working with domestic violence survivors often confronts professionals with their own prior experiences of abuse and trauma. Partnering with survivors using the Safe & Together Model is powerful, efficient, and effective—and this very same process may reveal to practitioners where they were blamed for the abuse they suffered, where their own strengths or needs were not acknowledged, and can even trigger their own memories of trauma.
In this episode, Ruth and David discuss how the concept of partnering is a powerful way to support professionals who have experienced violence and who also encounter challenging and traumatizing dynamics in their day-to-day work. Many practitioners have reached out to express their own self-revelations when learning the Safe & Together Model and how the six-part process of partnering helped in their healing.
David and Ruth look at the six steps of partnering from a worker-supportive standpoint, which improves worker well-being, safety, and satisfaction and assures that organizations are responding in a domestic violence–informed way to the needs of professional victim-survivors in their employ. Ruth and David leave the listener with a series of questions that may assist in the process of partnering with professional survivors and with ourselves when we are uncovering our own trauma.
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