Proactive Tools & Resources

The following resources and tools are compiled with support from multiple partners in the avalanche and outdoor community.

For questions related to specific resources or to add a resource/tool to the list, please email resilience@avalanche.org.

Individual and Team Training Resources

• Archetypal Human Venture

• AMGA The Rise Project

• FRONTLINE MIND

• Mountain Muskox

• Redside Foundation

• Responders Alliance

• Sam Crow Coaching

Tools

The Stress Continuum can help with basic self and team awareness. Click here to learn more.

• Daily Resilience Scan (example here)

• Psychological First Aid for Stress Injury. PFA has been adapted for responders by responders, in our own language for Rescue. The PFA model seeks to support rescuers with tangible tools to help those we rescue, which in turn empowers the rescuer to do what we have given our lives to doing on the scene; stabilize and mitigate injuries for our patients, and often, for each other. Learn more about Psychological First Aid:

  • Responder Alliance

  • Everett Mountain Rescue

  • Read The Avalanche Review article Psychological First Aid: A Case Study.

• Click here to learn more about the 3-3-3 Exposure Protocol

Books and Web Reading

• Drew Hardesty Newsletter Archive

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

• The End of Trauma: How the New Science of Resilience Is Changing How We Think About PTSD

  by George A. Bonanno

• Loving Someone with PTSD: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Connecting with Your

  Partner After Trauma by by Aphrodite T. Matsakis PhD, Rosemary Benson, et al.

• Resilience by Design by Snape and Weeks.

Podcasts

• Utah Avalanche Center podcast

• Huberman Lab: Alcohol podcast

• Jay Shetty podcast

• The Avalanche Hour - Stress Injuries

Watch

• Drew Peterson Ups and Downs

• Dr. Sara Boilen at WYSAW Sense-Making, Communication, and Why Humans are Terrible

Additional Therapy Directories & Networks

• PSYCHOLOGY TODAY | Search this massive directory to find a Verified Therapist in your area. You can also search for Support Groups, Psychiatrists, Treatment Centers or even the specific populations that a mental health provider works with.

•  EMDR International Association | Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing can be a useful therapy for healing from PTSD or traumatic grief. Search this website for a EMDR-trained therapist in your area.

•  SETI PRACTITIONER DIRECTORY | Somatic Experiencing/SE Trauma Institute — Find an SE Trauma Practitioner.

•  USABP THERAPIST DIRECTORY | U.S Association for Body Psychotherapy

•  OPEN PATH COLLECTIVE | Find a sliding scale therapist

•  ELUNA NETWORK | National bereavement resource guide listed state-by-state.

• BETTERHELP | Online, Affordable, Private Therapy

• REGAIN | Online Couples Counseling

• Climbing Grief Fund

• S.O.A.R.