The Community Resiliency Model (CRM)®: A Wellness Model For All
Goals of CRM
To learn simple biologically based skills, based upon current neuroscience, to help individuals get back into balance in body, mind and spirit.
To educate about common reactions resulting from individual or communal traumas/stresses such as poverty, racism and family violence.
To reduce common human reactions related to stressful/traumatic experiences.
To shift perceptions that reactions are biological rather than mental weakness in order to reduce shame and increase hope.
To encourage individuals to integrate wellness skills into their daily life.
What is CRM?
The Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® is evidence-based and trains community members to not only help themselves but to help others within their wider social network. The primary focus of this skills-based, stabilization program is to re-set the natural balance of the nervous system.
CRM’s goal is to help to create “trauma-informed” and “resiliency-focused” communities that share a common understanding of the impact of trauma and chronic stress on the nervous system and how resiliency can be restored or increased using this skills-based approach.
CRM Workshops
The Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® Workshops introduces participants to six wellness skills. CRM Workshops help create “trauma-informed” and “resiliency-informed” individuals and communities that share a common understanding of the impact of trauma and chronic stress on the nervous system and how resiliency can be restored or increased using this skills-based approach.
The two fundamental goals of CRM are to help adults and children learn to track their own nervous systems in order to bring the body, mind and spirit back into greater balance, and to encourage people to pass the skills along to family, friends and their wider community. CRM can be used as self-care for those community members who are the front-line workers, responding to crisis situations or who live in highly traumatized and/or marginalized communities.
CRM Teacher Training Program
In addition, CRM can be taught as a peer-to-peer program, called the Teacher Training program, where community members can be trained to help themselves and others.
Globally, mental health services are inadequate and often nonexistent. There are simply not enough trained professionals to meet the numbers of people suffering from traumatic stress reactions and depression. In addition, many of those suffering are not psychologically oriented and if they seek help, many will seek out a member of their social network rather than a therapist.
The Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® Teacher Training program is designed to help both community members and professionals learn how to teach the CRM skills to those in their own community thereby providing resiliency training to a wider net of the populace and creating capacity in local communities. Communities throughout the world are encouraged to infuse their unique cultural lens in order to increase the efficacy of the CRM Skills.
Practice CRM Skills with our free app: iChill.
iChill is a free app that teaches six wellness skills from the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM)® and Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® to help you manage sensations associated with trauma and stress, enhancing your well-being.
Based on the biology of the human nervous system, iChill helps us understand and regulate our body's natural rhythms. When in harmony, our nervous system aids in navigating life's challenges, helping us make sound decisions for ourselves and our community. This balanced state is called the Resilient Zone or "Okay Zone."
Stressful events can bump us into the High Zone (anxious, uptight) or Low Zone (numb, disconnected). iChill helps us return to our Okay Zone, restoring balance. Regular practice of these skills can reduce anxiety and depression symptoms, improving overall well-being.
iChill benefits children, teens, and adults of all ages. It helps us answer the question, "What else is true?" leaning into our strengths to help manage distress in the present moment.
iChill is now available in English, Arabic, Spanish, Hebrew, and Ukrainian.