Route to Resilience: Recognizing and Supporting Stress Injuries — A LIVE Sharp End Podcast Event with Responder Alliance Founder Laura McGladrey

Doors: 6 p.m.
Event: 7 p.m.

All Ages Welcome
No Refunds or Exchanges

This live event is in support of the nonprofit, the Responder Alliance Foundation.

You are invited to this very special event where Ashley and Laura discuss psychological stress injuries and their impact. Maybe you are dealing with a stress injury, or perhaps someone you know is managing a trauma or stress injury that you wish you could support but don’t know how. Stress injuries in outdoor recreation are common, impacting relationship to climbing and each other.

We hope to leave you with some tools to heal.

About The Sharp End Podcast: 

Ashley Saupe started The Sharp End Podcast in November of 2015 because she believes it’s essential to learn from other people’s mistakes. The goal of her show is to minimize future outdoor accidents by way of storytelling. Real people sharing real stories. She believes we all need to shift our way of thinking about accidents and intentionally create a culture that allows people to share their stories, judgment, shame, and guilt-free. It’s easy to be an armchair expert, but it’s not that easy to listen and learn. By doing that, we can all grow into a much stronger outdoor community by learning from each other and supporting one another along the way. 

About Laura McGladrey: 

Laura McGladrey is a former raft guide, an outdoor educator and works with ski patrols, guiding operations, ski areas, outfitters and rescue teams throughout the world. Laura is the founder and director of Responder Alliance, a grassroots organization with a mission to change the national conversation on stress impact and resilience in the outdoor professions.

Laura is a Nurse Practitioner with dual certification as a Family and Psych Mental Health Nurse, practicing both emergency medicine and psychiatry across the lifespan. 

She is a Senior Instructor at the College of Nursing, The University of Colorado.  She serves as a clinician with the Stress Trauma Adversity Research and Treatment (START) Center, with a focus on occupational stress injury in front line responders, and provides trauma support for Law Enforcement, FIRE/Rescue, and austere and wilderness responders. 

She has a storied background in humanitarian aid work and wilderness medicine, serving in South Sudan with Medair, a Swiss NGO, and has taught wilderness medicine in Ecuador, Chilean Patagonia, Uganda, South Sudan, Dominican Republic and throughout North America. Laura speaks internationally on operational stress & major incident support.  She is the author of Stress Injuries and Psychological First Aid, and Behavioral Health Emergencies Chapters in the Wilderness EMS Textbook.

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