Introduction to Workplace Wellness and Resilience (90 minutes)
In this 90 minute session, your team will have the opportunity to engage in self-assessment and reflection as they learn about key markers for professional burnout and work together to describe strategies for work-life balance. Through understanding the issue, recognizing workplace factors, and being aware of the signs and symptoms, your team will be able to take pro-active steps to prevent burnout, enhance work-life balance and reduce the impact of burnout on themselves and their colleagues.
All too often, great team and personal development sessions give people a short-lived sense of “aha!” or motivation – this session is geared to giving your team the tools to continue with the skills learned and build on those through personal and professional accountability.
Key components are:
- The stages of compassion fatigue and how it differs from burnout
- How to protect yourself while you are helping people who are suffering or who are challenging
- Practical strategies to increase your compassion satisfaction and vicarious resilience
- Tools and Strategies for a Personalized self-care/self-compassion plan with accountability components including:
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- Improved stress management skills
- Improved focus and concentrationIncreased capacity for compassion
- Improved health, well-being and life satisfaction
- Improved interpersonal skills
Self-Care for Caregivers (90 minutes)
Designed with the non-professional caregiver in mind (caring for aging parents, children with exceptionalities, unofficial hospice, caring for a chronically ill family member, etc…), this 90-minute session provides an opportunity to connect with others experiencing similar challenges.
Through interactive and lecture-style presentation, they will learn to recognize the signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue and burnout.
As the session progresses, they will have an opportunity to determine personal risk factors, complete a personal assessment and work on an individual prevention plan which helps them determine whether they are fully rested, have allowed their boundaries to slip and are on the verge of burnout, or are somewhere in between.
Anxiety: A Workshop for Parents (90 minutes)
An introductory workshop about childhood anxiety and the skills for parenting the child living with its symptoms.
In this introductory workshop you will:
- GAIN an overview of anxiety in children
- EXPLORE the challenges and opportunities facing parents of anxious children
- DISCUSS common childhood fears and anxieties
- LEARN practical parenting methods that can help your child cope with anxiety
- DISCOVER new strategies & resources for making parenting more effective, less stressful, and more rewarding – for everyone
Soul-Care for the Prevention of Burnout and the Practice of Intentional Rest (1/2 day)
Burnout Prevention for Health Care Providers (1/2 day Intensive)
Health care providers are at a high risk for vicarious traumatization, compassion fatigue, and burnout.
In break-out groups built of mixed responsibility members, your teams brainstorm key markers for burn out and work together to find strategies for work-life balance. Having a mixed group allows your team members to understand compassion as it relates to the various roles played by each individual.
Through interactive and lecture-style presentation, they will learn to recognize the signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue and professional burnout and build individual and team accountability measures for prevention.
Secrets of High Performing Teams (90 minutes)
90 minute team performance session with teams of up to 20 people (some restrictions apply)
Compassion Fatigue Prevention (3 hr)
In this 3-hr session, your team will have the opportunity to engage in self-assessment and reflection as they learn about compassion and the role it plays in your work.
In break-out groups built of mixed responsibility members, your teams brainstorm key markers for burn out and work together to find strategies for work-life balance. Having a mixed group allows your team members to understand compassion as it relates to the various roles played by each individual.
Through interactive and lecture-style presentation, they will learn to recognize the signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue and professional burnout.
As the session progresses, they will have an opportunity to determine personal risk factors, complete a personal assessment and work on an individual prevention plan which helps them determine whether they are fully rested and at the top of their game, have allowed their work-life boundaries to slip and are on the verge of burnout, or are somewhere in between.
As the session winds down, each participant will be encouraged to reflect on their experience and create a personalized “reminder” of what they learned and share in a session debrief – this is a fun activity that can elicit laughter, tears, and generate great conversation.
All too often, great team and personal development sessions give people a short-lived sense of “aha!” or motivation – this session is geared to giving your team the tools to continue with the skills learned and build on those through personal and professional accountability.
Challenging Imposter Syndrome (60 minutes)
How can we, as entrepreneurs, overcome feelings of not being enough?
How can we challenge feeling like an imposter?
How can we quash self-doubt?
How can we face the fear of “being found out”?
Feeling disconnected, emotionally overloaded, isolated, or overwhelmed?
Finding balance is a challenge and the emotional load of being an entrepreneur is especially challenging.
SAD (30 minutes)
This 30-minute session is ideal for the workplace “Lunch & Learn”
Do you experience Seasonal Depression or is it the “Winter Blues”?
Seasonal depression, also known as Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD for short, is a form of depression that typically impacts people during the winter months, when exposure to sunlight and temperature changes naturally occur.
Research indicates that about 6% of our population suffers from SAD. It is also believed that one in ten Canadians experience subsyndromal SAD, a milder form of seasonal depression, also called the “winter blues.” And, though the disorder can affect both men and women, it is more common among women.
Symptoms of seasonal depression include:
- Inability to focus or concentrate
- Increased weight gain
- Lethargy
- Increased appetite
- Social withdrawal
- Moodiness