The Attuned Manager Webinar Series
Session 1: Self-Awareness and Self-Regulation 7/29/26
Summary
This was the second session of Tend Collective's "Attuned Management Series" webinar, led by founder Alison Cebulla for an audience of behavioral health, child welfare, and human services professionals, focusing on two of the guide's 7 skills: self-awareness and self-regulation. She explained how workers in trauma-informed helping professions often carry their own childhood adverse experiences and relational trauma into the workplace, which can drive burnout, compassion fatigue, and unconscious patterns like shutting down or reacting defensively under stress. The session walked through practical tools for building these skills — self-assessment inventories, daily journaling, the feelings wheel, body-based awareness of dysregulation (the window of tolerance, hyper- vs. hypoarousal), and self-soothing techniques like breathwork, self-hugging with soothing self-talk, and even noting phone/short-form video use as a modern freeze-state coping habit — with heavy audience participation sharing their own strategies. Alison closed by outlining Tend Collective's core attuned management model (self-awareness → attunement → acknowledgment).
