Inclusion and Resilience Branch

This is a space to explore issues of inclusivity, diversity, cultural and racial trauma, and the impact of cultural and racial trauma. We exist to reflect on how race, class, gender, and other parts of identity connect and shape people’s experiences, as well as to push for culture change around issues such as misogyny and violence. We welcome a diversity of voices from people from different backgrounds, cultures and identities. This group is for anyone who wishes to explore and challenge power dynamics within our systems and services and to strive for better inclusion for all.

“Marginalized peoples — excluded, minimized, shamed — are traumatized peoples … This is why I believe that a truly trauma-informed system is an anti-racist system.”

– Oprah Winfrey, What Happened To You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing.

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Honouring Every Voice, Advancing Equality

The Black Lives Matter Movement provided a real moment for reflection for us within the Network and compelled us to ask whether we are sufficiently inclusive to all.

We want to be ambitious about challenging community inequality, thinking about events that traumatise at a community level, as well as the trauma exclusive inflicted by organisations and systems. This is a Network that honours those who don’t always feel heard or have their advocacy rights met. We seek to look at everything we do through an equality, diversity and inclusion lens as well as a trauma lens.

We recognise that our Network isn’t yet fully representative of the wider community and aspire to be as inclusive as possible. We seek a better understanding of the barriers that can get in the way of being part of the Network from the perspective of lived experience.

Branch Lead: Nica Cornell

Hi, I’m Nica. I am a South African writer who explores themes of the body, gender, disability, dress, & immigration. Since moving to Plymouth to be near the sea, my poetry anthology a sky is falling and memoir Sickness in Style have been published. I work as a Project Officer for Changing Futures Plymouth, which seeks to improve support for adults experiencing multiple disadvantage. I have been involved with the Trauma Network since 2022 – serving as a trainer, as well as the branch lead for Inclusion & Resilience. I am deeply passionate about the commonalities of intersectionality and trauma-informed practice.

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Our ambition is for Plymouth to be a trauma-informed city. Our independent network is open to anyone connected with Plymouth with a desire to learn about and promote trauma informed ways of being. You too can join our Network and help Plymouth become a safer and kinder place, where the impact of trauma and adversity is both recognised and responded to with sensitivity and compassion.

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