Dr. Dunn’s Journey to create the
Simple Wisdom Crash Cart Program
About Dr. Gigi Dunn
With a post-graduate certification in traumatic stress studies, and as a leading physician and physician educator for 30 years, Dr. Gigi Dunn understands first-hand the roles underlying trauma, PTSD, and moral injury play in causing and connecting many societal challenges.
She is an engaging speaker providing relief for healthcare professionals, businesses, and communities from the ongoing epidemic of physical and emotional challenges leading to burnout, dropout, and even suicide.
Her goal is to create healing spaces, first within us and then around us. In this post-pandemic climate, it is more important now than ever.
Speaking on why healing matters
Healing for Healthcare
In these chaotic times for healthcare professionals and institutions, addressing trauma and moral injury underlying burnout and the resulting ripple effect of organizational challenge is imperative. This healing is essential on the road to rebuilding trust and fostering engagement to support healthcare transformation so that care and compassion is once again the actualized mission of healthcare.
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Dr. Dunn’s Programs
Dr. Dunn’s messaging as a speaker opens the door to the Simple Wisdom for the Journey (SWJ) group of programs, whose flagship offering is Simple Wisdom for Health Professionals Crash Cart series.
In hospital emergencies healthcare professionals respond to a “Code Blue” and reach for the “Crash Cart” which contains essential medication and equipment to resuscitate a patient, and in this case the patient is our health professional workforce. While healthcare professionals are resilient, this resilience can result in physical and emotional illness and professional disengagement when it leaves trauma unrecognized and unaddressed.
Neuroscience research shows that traumatized individuals can be “stuck in time,” causing a ripple effect of personal and organizational challenges. Restoration through trauma-informed awareness allows healing over time into post-traumatic growth.
Through awareness of trauma and moral injury research, the Crash Cart program series explains their struggle with isolation, pain, and symptoms they may not have fully understood. By highlighting the evidence-based, effective, and surprisingly simple, multi-modal solutions, it offers understanding, relief, and hope.
Offered virtually or in-person, the Crash Cart 4-part program series is specifically designed to meet the unique needs of our time by providing evidence-based, trauma-informed support for healthcare professionals as they transform stress, trauma, and moral injury to create healing for themselves and others on the path to post-traumatic growth.
Investment by organizations to bring this vital programming to their workforce to counter the effects of trauma and moral injury can result in:
- Improved patient outcomes
- Greater patient, family, and employee satisfaction
- Enhanced professional engagement and longevity
- Positive impacts on cost of care delivery
Simple Wisdom for the Journey:
Comprehensive Wellbeing Initiative or
Stand-Alone Programming
As a well-credentialed and caring physician, Dr. Dunn’s vision is to empower people to create their own wellbeing and fulfilled potential by sharing simple, practical guidance that is anchored in science, but connected to heart-felt joy.
For Healthcare Professionals and Institutions
The multiple in-person or virtual program offerings under the SWJ umbrella have a dual and complementary design:
- As a comprehensive wellbeing initiative for medical centers from leadership and staff, to surgical and obstetric patients, and for the general patient population
- As stand-alone programming for individuals
For Businesses and Communities
SWJ programming has also been designed for non-medical organizations and institutions, as all are navigating the “new normal” in the current climate of post-pandemic transition.
Dr. Dunn has collaborated
with the following organizations:
Feedback from attendees:
Feeling their pain and moving forward…
To me the program is a jumpstart to healing. To know that someone feels the pain of what we’ve been through is a comfort. The journey has been long but with the tools provided, I feel I can start moving forward and share this with my family, coworkers, and friends.
A light at the end of the trauma…
I enjoyed this a lot. It was very helpful and comforting to know that although difficult, there is a solution and light at the end of this trauma. Appreciate breaks and the fact that you did not put pressure on anyone to share or speak.
From helpless to empowered…
This seminar has been a very enlightening and empowering experience. Instead of feeling helpless to the stressors around me, I feel confident now in my ability to fight back for my emotional and physical wellbeing. The scientific explanations along with the mental exercises that were discussed are spot on!
Inner peace and camaraderie…
Most helpful-Concrete actions to use in establishing inner peace and sharing of the pain nurses felt who were in the midst of the pandemic. Favorite takeaway-bonding and camaraderie with others who “get it” and understand what nurses have been through this last year and that healing is yet to come.
Being seen…
It was most helpful giving me options for my “crash cart” and I enjoyed the opportunities for discussion. Thank you for the resources and books! Today I felt more seen than I have in a long time. I appreciate all of your research and your heart and look forward to what comes next.