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Workplace Wellness: Self-Care Strategies for Caring Professionals

Service providers who are stressed or overwhelmed may locate their exhaustion and dysregulation within themselves — “Do I feel this way because of lack of training, lack of skills? Maybe I’m in the wrong line of work!” This workshop is an opportunity to explore why caring professionals so often experience burnout and are at risk of developing vicarious trauma.

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Description

Service providers who are stressed or overwhelmed may locate their exhaustion and dysregulation within themselves — “Do I feel this way because of lack of training, lack of skills? Maybe I’m in the wrong line of work!”

This workshop is an opportunity to explore why caring professionals so often experience burnout and are at risk of developing vicarious trauma. Participants will identify self-care methods unique to them and how best to deploy these mechanisms of care as needed. They will explore emerging research and opportunities for growth after traumatic experiences.
This instructor-led workshop includes opportunities for discussion, self-reflection and peer group activities.

This workshop will also be suitable for managers and supervisors who want to better support their staff through training, skill development and supervision support.

Outcomes

    1. Identify stages of burnout and relate to your own past and current circumstances
    2. Reflect on past experiences that impact you in the present
    3. Complete a values exercise to build awareness of what restores and soothes you
    4. Work on a personalized stress management plan

Price

Early Bird Special! Expires Sept 20, 2019

Member Fee: $139.22

Non-Member Fee: $198.88

Regular

Member Fee: $158.20

Non-Member Fee: $226.00

GROUP DISCOUNT: Save 20% off individual fee with group registration of 4 or more participants. Contact Angela, angela@safeguards-training.net or (905) 889-5030 ext. 121.

Course Dates & Location

Currently available as in-service training.

Instructor

Joanne Barnes Smith

Joanne Barnes Smith is a community based social worker dedicated to the skill development and supportive needs of frontline care providers, particularly those who provide youth and family services. Joanne has worked in for profit residential settings, academic institutions and in community based settings as a frontline care provider, moving her career to management of front line youth workers who predominately support marginalized people experiencing poverty, violence, system isolation and discrimination. As a clinical training consultant, Joanne utilizes her responsibility as an ally and advocate to improve client support experiences from micro interactions to larger, systemic lived experiences.

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