Cultivating Resilience & Connection for the Wellness of Helping Professionals
There's a special place in my heart for professionals who work in education and in trauma-serving organizations. This of course includes schools, healthcare, and social service agencies. Most of my professional career has been dedicated to serving trauma survivors and their family members either as a therapist or program director. So, I recognize the toll trauma work can take on direct care staff and managers. If you are concerned about the wellness of your team, or would like to make sure that wellness remains strong, let's discuss how I can facilitate experiences for your staff marked by appreciation, respect, and candor about the sometimes very difficult work we do.
I've received specialized training in exploring ways to resolve challenges particular to Health & Human Service Professionals. This includes Compassion Fatigue (now becoming known as Empathic Strain), Burnout, Moral Distress, and Vicarious Traumatization. Schedule a free phone consultation so we can discuss ways to strengthen your team of helping professionals.
Online Team Development Opportunities...
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Many ways to play:
(You may also find certain colors are geared for those of us who are more introverted or extroverted.)
- Choose a color to complete on your own, or choose them all...
- Partner up with a Teammate or two and try to get them all done...
- Next time your team is on a conference call and using "grid view" see if your teammates can answer or perform what's in the box as it correlates to their position on the grid...
- As a Team, assign point values for each different colored box and see how high you can score...
- As a Team, assign point values for each different colored box, divide into groups, and compete for a high score...
- Select a Teammate to put blue, purple, red, yellow, and green crayons in a bag. Next, without looking, call on someone else on the team, pick a crayon from the bag, and ask them to complete a box of the corresponding color selected...
- Really, there are many ways to play. Have fun creating your own rules for this tool...
Staying Connected
RelateAbility, PLLC brings values of connection, wellness, and empowerment to online platforms for you and your team. Stay connected with teammates in different physical settings. We can explore creative ways of relationship building and team development using a variety of virtual tools. Online meetings can mean much more when we're engaged in conversation, invested in one another, and on track with goals, not just staring at a computer screen waiting for our turn to to talk. Options range from single session workshops to multiple days of program development with a core group of staff.
Glad You Stopped By!
Before you leave, I invite you to pause and reflect on one way you've demonstrated resilience in the past few days. Remember, sometimes the pausing can feel a little uncomfortable (that's okay) & resilience takes many forms.