Take some time out to nurture yourself and rejuvenate your energy levels. In this 1- day workshop you will experience a variety of interactive activities that promote self-awareness and healthy self-care habits. You will also explore the impact of acute or chronic stress on the brain and body, and develop strategies for dealing with stressful situations.

Learning Objectives

During this training you will have opportunity:

• Identify a range of self-care options
• Examine how our brains trigger stress and anxiety reactions
• Differentiate the impacts of compassion fatigue, burnout and secondary and vicarious traumatisation
• Evaluate your own level of emotional awareness and its links to self-care
• Practice challenging irrational or negative thinking
• Examine the power of debriefing and the importance of protecting our boundaries

Agenda

1. Stress Analysis
2. Defining Self-Care
3. Stress
4. How fears change the way the brain thinks
5. Controlling Anxiety
6. Burnout
7. Vicarious or Secondary Trauma
8. Compassion Fatigue
9. Emotional Intelligence and Self-Awareness
10. Boundaries
11. Self-Care and Time Management
12. Debriefing
13. Challenging Irrational Thinking – Cognitive Psychology
14. Additional Strategies
15. Self-Care Inventory