Bringing Trauma-Informed Principles Alive with Nonviolent Communication

April 3, 2024 by Jennifer Yanez Pryor

In this episode we are joined by Consultant, Speaker, and Writer, Paige Hector of Paige Ahead Healthcare Education & Consulting, LLC. In this episode, Paige talks to us about how we can use nonviolent communication to create trust and transparency in our human interactions to support the important principle of empathy. Learn along with us about how we can remove judgement from how we view others and the world around us.

Meet Our Special Guest!

Paige Hector is a consultant and nationally recognized speaker and writer with over 25 years’ experience in post-acute and long-term care settings. She specializes in diverse topics for the interdisciplinary team, person-centered trauma informed care, Nonviolent Communication, sustainable process improvement, and advance care planning. She excels at transforming complex issues and content into concepts and strategies that staff can use immediately in any setting. Paige writes extensively on topics relevant to nursing homes including multiple chapters of Managing the Long-Term Care Facility, 2^nd Edition due for publication in 2024. She serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for Caring for the Ages, the publication for AMDA, The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. She is actively involved in the AMDA Education Committee; the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workgroup; and the Behavioral Health Advisory Council, as well as national work groups to improve trauma-informed care. In 2018, she was named the Gerontologist of the Year for the Arizona Geriatrics Society.