Triggers to Glimmers: Finding Resilience (In-Person)

Triggers to Glimmers: Finding Resilience in the Work of Witnessing Trauma through Art and Engagement

Witnessing the suffering of others can shape our psychological world in profound ways. For clinicians, caregivers, artists, and anyone deeply engaged with the experiences of others, empathic engagement can lead to vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, or burnout.

This 3 hour presentation introduces an evidence-informed framework for understanding these responses and explores the concept of vicarious resilience—the growth, meaning, and renewed perspective that can emerge through witnessing the resilience of others.

Using the narrative of an artist (Sarah Sudhoff) who experienced vicarious trauma through her creative work, alongside broader examples from helping professions, participants will learn to recognize key indicators of both vicarious trauma and vicarious resilience. The session concludes with practical strategies for managing the emotional impact of trauma exposure and intentionally cultivating moments of insight, connection, and resiliency.

Sarah Sudhoff is a Cuban-American artist based in Houston, Texas. She uses data, performances, photography, prints, sound, and video to unpack the gun violence epidemic’s ongoing socio-cultural impacts, the psychological landscapes of caregiving and motherhood, sexuality and gender-based violence, and heritage and transgenerational memory. 

Her work has been exhibited at Colby College Museum in Maine, Nasher Museum at Duke University in North Carolina, Blaffer Art Museum in Texas, Donggang Photo Museum in South Korea, and Pioneer Works in New York. Sudhoff completed an MFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design, New York, and a BA in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.

Jenny Hughes, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in the treatment of trauma and PTSD. As a clinician, she practices Brainspotting, EMDR, and Cognitive Processing Therapy. Jenny is the author of The PTSD Recovery Workbook and Triggers to Glimmers: A Vicarious Resilience Journal and Workbook.

As a leader in the field of vicarious trauma and resilience, Jenny serves trauma therapists, helpers, and healers as the founder of The BRAVE Trauma Therapist Collective. Jenny helps trauma therapists get their energy back and feel confident in their work again so they can end the day with something left for themselves.

This program is being offered IN-PERSON only, and will NOT be recorded.

All times are CT. Please contact onlinelearning@junghouston.org with any questions.

Please register early.
Programs with four or fewer participants are subject to cancellation, 48 hours prior to their start.

*The Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council (TBHEC) has stopped pre-certifying ANY Continuing Education or Professional Development for mental health providers.  The Jung Center cannot guarantee that the programs we provide will qualify for continuing education or Professional Development, nor can any other agency.  The Jung Center uses high educational standards when selecting to designate events as "potentially appropriate for CEs", and in evaluating the outcomes of our educational services, and we believe them to meet the requirements of state licensing bodies.  To find out more about the TBHEC changes to Continuing Education and Professional Development, click here.