What is Post-Traumatic Growth?
I’ve recently done a PD with Dr Fiona Pienaar based on the work of Richard Tedeschi & Lawrence Calhoun (1995) and want to share some key insights and questions for you to reflect on. Trauma includes (but is not limited to) our experience of the pandemic and natural disasters as well as relational trauma (such as abuse), discrimination and also life transition trauma (redundancy, divorce, bankruptcy etc); illness and of course grief and loss.
What is Post-Traumatic Growth?
Post Traumatic Growth (PTG) is about ‘Bouncing Forward, as opposed to bouncing back to who you were prior to a traumatic event. People not only survive trauma but can be transformed by it, summarised beautifully in this phrase “I am more vulnerable than I thought but much stronger than I ever imagined”.
