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Stress Management and Burnout Prevention for Instructors, Students, and Helping Professionals

 

 

Workshop Description:

Let’s face it, working in helping professions and educational environments can be extremely stressful, and can lead to severe burnout.  Some examples of related distress can be: severely challenged clients in acute crisis, experiencing vicarious trauma, fears of enduring airborne viruses and the evolving impact that comes with them, addressing changing administrative/staffing issues like absenteeism, turnover, or elevated fund-raising goals.  Other stressors can arise such as financial challenges, balancing one’s personal well-being and one’s family life needs with daily educational and workplace demands.  These are just a handful of the issues that if unattended, can lead to overwork, too many sick days, burnout, and/or position termination.

 

This presentation is designed to effectively teach awareness and skills to prevent and manage distress and burnout.  Participants will leave this workshop ready to use new skills to effectively respond to stressful day-to-day challenges and crises.

 

Learning Objectives for Participants:

 

  1. Distinguish the difference between healthy stress and distress.

 

  1. Identify the difference between external stress and personal stress.

 

  1. Explore the difference between burnout and stress/distress.

 

  1. Recognize one’s own challenges and causes of distress, and to what extent it affects one’s life.

 

  1. Develop an awareness of one’s own physiological distress signals, and related reactions when feeling burned out.

 

  1. Develop the awareness and skills needed to effectively recover from distress, and

to prevent it from becoming burnout.

 

  1. Learn sound, effective, and practical techniques that boost energy, and prevent

distress & burnout throughout one’s life.

 

 

Time Frame:  This workshop can be taught in 3 hours.

 

Workshop Testimonials

Paulette Swanson, RN, BAN
Co-Coordinator of Integrative Healthcare Service, Lakeview Hospital, Stillwater

“We recently had Jeffry do a presentation at our hospital on cutting edge stress management.  His PowerPoint presentation was very dynamic and thought-provoking. He taught us new techniques that have proven to be very effective for many of the participants.  Jeffry’s new ideas and also his physiological explanation of stress were great because the topic of stress has been covered in many classes, but often it is the ‘same old stuff.’  His delivery is organized, quick, and filled with witty comments which had many of us walk away with a positive feeling and a ‘can do’ attitude.”

Almira

“I really appreciated the stress assessment form which you had has us fill out at the start of the workshop.  It taught me to see how many areas of my life are significantly stressful, and what patterns exist in how my stress shows itself.  Also, your well-organized overview of the varieties of types of stress management strategies was great.  It was very helpful to experience these different strategies during the training.”

Kristy

“Jeffry, I really liked that you made the workshop more personal by asking each of us about our stressors.  Your feedback and suggestions related to my stress challenges was very helpful.  Walking through each stress management skill was excellent, there is nothing like having practice with adjustments from the instructor immediately.  Your handout has great info, and will be helpful when I practice the skills at home and work, well done!  This is the last stress management program I will ever need.”

Cynthia
Program Administrator

“Attending Jeffry’s workshop on stress and burnout provided me with immediate tools I could use for negotiating.  He clearly defined methods to deal with the stress that comes from certain triggers in our world. Whether it’s dealing with a stressful deadline, a difficult person, a complex work situation or simply feeling like you’re constantly carrying a heavy workload, Jeffry teaches how to step back, assess a situation, control your own response, and lower your own stress.  The skills he taught in just a single workshop enabled me to change my approach while negotiating with a very difficult person. Well worth the time!!”

Darcy

“I am grateful to you for this workshop series. I loved this experience, you are a beautiful, wise, generous and kind soul – a true gift, and your gifts have been very much enjoyed here and appreciated by me and others. I feel…no I know I started something here this week that I really want to continue. A fabulous range of material, references, to do’s, experiences, exercises. I love the combination/marriage/relationship of mind/body/spirit/emotions, and health/wellness/spirituality that you lead us in.”

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