Jerrika Hinton

After twenty-five years in Hollywood and injuries both physical and invisible, Jerrika became a Certified Resilience Toolkit facilitator and developed the TAMHI initiative. She believes in a different world where trauma-informed teachings are made widely available, at low cost and form the foundation of secure, vibrant workplaces.

The simple truth is that the workplace is an environment where co-regulation occurs in the same way that we share air. For better or worse. Emotional states, physiological effects of stress and the reality of hours on endd with a company of people means that about a hundred different people (and their nervous systems) are quietly communicating, aiming for a shared resonance.

On set (and at any job), we are attuned to the work before us and responsive to the people around us. This is why developing codified support systems are valuable — not just hotlines to call or pamphlets on a bulletin board but actual, resonant, human help.

Developing systems that support collective care don’t need to be a Herculean challenge or a Pollyanna pipe dream. Having spent most of her life in an industry built on imagination, Jerrika believes is it imperative that we formidably liberate our own.