Community Resiliency Model
CRM VT
Community Resilience Model (CRM)
The primary focus of this skills-based, stabilization program is to reset the natural balance of the nervous system.
CRM Workshops introduce the six wellness skills of CRM designed 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.
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Student participants have included Residential Well-being Student Leaders, first year Corps of Cadets, numerous First Year Experience classes, first year graduate students at Fralin Biomedical Institute, vet med, and public health departments, and several other student organizations. Faculty and staff participants range from Advising Initiatives, numerous academic departments, study abroad coordinators, Financial Aid, Newman Libraries, Roanoke student affairs, and dozens more.
CRM VT is a movement to expand campus knowledge of our fight/flight/freeze/fawn responses. If we all know more about how our nervous systems are trying to help us, and ways to regulate our nervous systems, then we can be more effective in connecting with others and handling our daily stressors.
CRM Skills
The six skills of CRM are designed to use our environment and minds to stabilize the nervous system. These include:
- Skill 1 - Tracking: Tracking is noticing or paying attention to sensations - to what is happening inside the body in the present moment.
- Skill 2 - Resourcing: A Resource is any person, place, thing, memory, or part of yourself that makes you feel calm, pleasant, peaceful, strong, or resilient.
- Skill 3 - Grounding: The direct contact of the body or part of the body with something that provides support in the present moment.
- Skill 4 - Gesturing: A movement usually of the body or limbs that expresses or emphasizes an idea, sentiment, or attitude.
- Skill 5 - Help Now!: A shift in your attention using one or more of your five senses.
- Skill 6 - Shift and Stay: Shifting your attention from sensations that are unpleasant to sensations that are neutral or pleasant and staying there.
- Cook Counseling Center shares tools for coping with holiday and finals stress (VT News)
- The Community Resiliency Model, an interoceptive awareness tool to support population mental wellness (Cambridge University Press)
- Science-backed mental health techniques for students’ well-being (Times Higher Education)