About Us

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Trauma, Behavior, Systems Change Connected, Aware, Resilient Environments

Committed to Building Safe, Stable & Nurturing Environments

"Being able to feel safe with other peoples probably the most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives."

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

Working with Creative Behavior Systems helps create a culture of collaboration for you and your community. Together we will acknowledge, learn, and diminish the common systemic effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trauma through our unique coaching, training, and sustainable development which begins exactly where you are, right now.

A Brief Background on Trauma

The ACEs study by Kaiser Permanente and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) illuminates a strong link between trauma and the overall health and behavior of a person. Trauma is a result of painful experience(s) and can create life-changing circumstances. This in turn can cause lasting adverse effects on an individual’s health, behavior and overall wellbeing. Most have experienced various levels of adversity, some have life long adverse experiences and many have experienced varying levels of protective factors, which are all embedded within our behavior, our communication and our overall ability to function, regulate, co-regualte, connect, acknowledge and heal.Teaching sustainable, easy to use and fast acting tools to put alongside current practice is simply how we create environments which foster resiliency and teach to diminish trauma.

Designed to Help and Heal

At Creative Behavior Systems, the goal is to raise awareness of our roles within systems of the known and often unaddressed prevalence of trauma. Understanding of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study as a beginning and finding ways to make use of this knowledge by working together to see what it looks like behaviorally and simply, what we can be done now by educating, teaching and supporting sustainability in tools to put in place today.

Trauma-Informed Approach

According to SAMHSA this is

“A program, organization or system that is trauma-informed.”

Using this approach, enables us to understand the root cause of current systems and help foster resilient focused environments for all in your community, organization or even classroom.

"Safe" does not exist for far too many,

and this is where we begin.

Vision

In 2011, Susan Jones had the vision to better education systems most often presented with challenging behavior from students. Little did she know, within only a few years she would be training organizations, police, juvenile justice, district attorneys, schools, districts and county office of educations, and many more.

Susan coached hundreds of classroom teachers individually which lead to lessening many of the inequities observed, created increased engagement and learning, empowered educators in fostering relationships with connection, awareness, and resilience within classrooms, with students, with their families and each other by instilling simple systems change in increasing a truly trauma informed approach throughout generations of traditional and socially accepted systems often unintentionally causing harm.

Her vision began as a free resource she could recommend to the many she was working with, a Facebook page, then Instagram and grew into a community of organizations, educators, families, students and community members engaging, connecting and wanting to learn more.

Susan brings 25+ years of individual experience and a vision to build connected, aware, resilient environments where colleagues, students, staff, families and people had the chance to thrive, better.

Susan's experience in the trauma-informed approach to behavioral intervention and support with ACEs science, resilience-building expertise to organizations seeking to support environments into calm, productive, and equitable systems has included leadership in Resilient Sacramento, Resilient Yolo, ACEs trainer, Behavior Specialist/Analyst, Moderate/Severe Teacher and Consultant. Susan has certifications and/or vast experience in training on Autism, Restorative Practices, Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (externship), Mindful Leader, Certified Mindful Based Stress Reduction, Mindful Teacher, Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports, Healing Trauma and Addiction (Dr. Gabor Mate, author of books offered in Susans Book Studies), Narcissistic Abuse Masterclass, NICABM certificates:Treatment of Trauma Master Series, The Neurobiology of Trauma, Working With Pain of Abandonment, Working With Core Beliefs, Why The Vagel Systems Holds The Key to Trauma Treatment, Advocate for Dr. Ross Greens Lives In The Balance, and is certified in Dr. Bruce Perrys (Author of several books Susan offers as Book Studies) Neurosequential Model in Reflective Supervision with Dr. Kristie Brandt as well as in her practicum for a trauma aware Somatic Breath Work practitioner.

Connect with Susan and begin the shift by checking out the various services offered and which fits you!

Meet Susan

Susan Jones (She/Her/Hers) Founder and Principal Consultant

Susan lives in Davis, California, bringing 20-plus years of experience in the "trauma-informed" approach to behavioral intervention and support before the terms "trauma informed" existed. Susans work has increased in value with the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) science, and resilience-building expertise for educators, organizations, leaders, families and individuals seeking to transform chaos and misunderstanding into calm, supportive,

productive and more equitable environments across the nation.

Susan is asked, "What is your work about?"

It's a shift.

"I believe and teach, this is a practice. A daily practice in everything we do and say because it is never 'done', there's no ending, it is not something you arrive too, never a box to check. It is about the how and the why we communicate and participate individually first, then collectively within the current systems and social norms, the roles we play within them and the awareness of harm to not only others but even inadvertently, to ourselves which often leads to detrimental outcomes. We then add layers of supports and services, thoughts and prayers, hold stress and worry when dismantling the harm, is actually quite easy. We first need to know how to recognize it, in action.

This will enlighten individuals, families, organizations and communities. This practice is not difficult, it's simply a shift that connects our perspectives, perceptions and practices. It provides awareness and tools for change and normalizes this to remove the immense layers of shame and blame we then hold against our own selves.

The most difficult part of this shift is recognizing and acknowledging it is time to shift, we have a nation where being vulnerable is not safe and this work provides that necessary felt sense of safety.

How to create personal safety is the start, and knowing it is needed, there is the work."

-Susan Jones