From Values to Impact: The Importance of Trauma-Informed Practices in Tango Spaces

From Values to Impact: The Importance of Trauma-Informed Practices in Tango Spaces

This is also why all places benefit from practicing trauma-informed ways of crafting spaces, even if (and I would say especially if) they’re not therapy spaces or counseling or spaces for processing trauma. We can never guarantee that our spaces will be “safe,” and there’s no way to avoid all harm in a space no matter how many courses we’ve taken. But we can ensure that we are doing everything we can to minimize the chances for harm to occur, and maximize the quality of support we can offer when harm does happen.

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Tango Hierarchies and Our Stress Responses to Them

Tango Hierarchies and Our Stress Responses to Them

…being unsure whether asking this person to stop would result in retaliation or not--and expending the mental resources to weigh those probabilities--is taxing on the system, on top of juggling all the other social involvement of navigating a tango space. How many people adopt survival/coping patterns of avoiding or simply enduring these ambiguous possibilities of threat in the first place?

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