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Resilience on the Record: Writing a DBE Narrative Without Re-Traumatizing

December 4 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm GMT

A healing-centered workshop for DBE and 8(a) applicants on writing social disadvantage narratives without re-traumatizing.

Success In Business® presents

Resilience on the Record: Writing a DBE Social Disadvantage Personal Narrative—Without Re-Traumatizing

Tools for sharing your story with care, boundaries, and evidence

About This Workshop

Writing a DBE or SBA social disadvantage narrative can be emotionally taxing. Current rules require applicants to provide individualized accounts of discrimination, exclusion, or systemic barriers—often forcing people to revisit harmful or traumatic experiences.

This healing-centered, trauma-informed, and legally grounded workshop is designed to help you tell your story with care, boundaries, and evidence—without re-traumatizing yourself.

Across two hours, you will learn how to transform lived experience into a clear, structured, and eligibility-ready narrative that protects your emotional well-being while meeting federal program requirements.

What You’ll Learn

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Recognize the psychological and biological effects of recounting trauma or discrimination.
  • Understand key trauma and resilience concepts (amygdala, prefrontal cortex regulation, stress responses).
  • Apply emotional self-regulation tools while drafting sensitive narrative content.
  • Translate incidents, microaggressions, and systemic barriers into evidence-ready, strength-forward statements.
  • Use boundary-protective language (“enough detail to prove, not to relive”).
  • Build a safe narrative outline that meets DBE/SBA/8(a) standards without oversharing.

Hosted by J. Goodwille Pierre, Esq, founder of Success in Business® (The Pierre Foundation, Inc.)

Featuring Dr. Alauna Curry, M.D. – Trauma Psychiatrist & Founder of the Dr. Alauna Trauma Recovery Institute (DA-TRI)

Who Should Attend

This workshop is ideal for:

  • DBE, SBA 8(a), and MBE applicants
  • Professionals preparing personal narratives for certification
  • Business owners needing to translate complex experiences into eligibility facts
  • Consultants who support DBE / MBE / 8(a) certification packages
  • Anyone seeking guidance on writing about disadvantage without emotional harm

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