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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 training is an opportunity to explore why caring professionals so often experience burnout and are at risk of developing vicarious trauma, to identify the unique impact of pandemic circumstances and to identify self-care methods relevant personally in this moment.

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Description

For many caregiving professionals, these are difficult times- unlike any other we have ever experienced. Self Care Strategies for Caring Professions provides an opportunity to focus more on ‘what do I need?’ rather then ‘what is wrong?’ Often, we know how to care for ourselves yet we get stuck in routines, patterns and expectations where we cannot regularly invest in our own health and wellness. Together, we will examine self care and wellness from a range of perspectives and work together to inform what will be supportive for you.

This training is an opportunity to identify self-care methods unique to you and how best to deploy these mechanisms of care as needed. Participants will explore emerging research and opportunities for growth after traumatic experiences.

This instructor-led training includes opportunities for discussion, self-reflection, and peer group activities.

Learning 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

Who Should Attend

This workshop is suitable for service providers as well as managers and supervisors who want to better support their staff through training, skill development and supervision support. 

Course Format

This 6-hour training is delivered online in a single day as an interactive virtual session using Zoom. 

Price

Member Fee: $135.00 + $17.55 (HST) = $152.55

Non-Member Fee:  $170.00 + $22.10 (HST)= $192.10

See Group Registration for additional savings on fees.

 

Course Dates & Location

Available for In Service

This course is a 6-hour interactive virtual session using Zoom

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.

Group Registration

GROUP DISCOUNT: Save 20% off individual fee with group registration of 4 or more participants.

Download the group registration form HERE.

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