Practice Safe Stress ™: Preventing Burnout While Building Resilience and Team Camaraderie in Challenging Times

Funding uncertainty, cutbacks and clients facing trauma and hardship leave many professionals close to their limit. This 60-minute burnout prevention and stress resilience webinar gives you practical tools for staying healthy and keeping your team together.

The fun, interactive program covers burnout prevention and recovery, psychological hardiness and stress resilience, and a closing set of tips on humor, Natural SPEED and brain agility. You'll learn ways to cope with loss and change, set boundaries in a positive way and disarm power struggles that hold people back.

You'll also pick up team structures and exercises that build a more inclusive, 'helmets off,' we're-in-this-together culture.

• Identify early stress warning signs and the four stages of burnout
• Apply the six R's of burnout recovery and psychological hardiness during transitions
• Use the eight F's to manage loss and change
• Say no constructively to colleagues and senior leaders
• Defuse power struggles with good questions and 'I' messages
• Use team exercises and structures to manage stress and improve inclusion and problem-solving

• Recognizing stress 'smoke signals' and the four stages of burnout
• The six R's of burnout recovery
• Managing transitions with research-based psychological hardiness
• Finding creative potential in letting go, and the eight F's for managing loss and change
• Saying no constructively to colleagues and higher-ups
• Defusing power struggles with courageous good questions and affirming 'I' messages
• Reducing status tensions and building trust
• Team exercises, structures and strategies for managing stress, inclusion and collaborative problem-solving
• Closing tips on humor, Natural SPEED and brain agility, plus the 'Shrink Rap'

During rapid change, personal resilience and healing humor shape both productivity and emotional well-being. The same skills affect how well we empathize, connect and partner with others, and that in turn shapes how supportive and collaborative a team can be.

Everyone from front-line staff to senior managers will gain tools to recognize stress and burnout warning signs and to build stress, conflict and change resilience in themselves and the people they work with or manage.

All personnel levels – from front-line employees to all levels of management will gain skills, tools, and strategies for:
Identifying stress and burnout warning signs and positively developing stress, conflict, and change resilience skills in both themselves and in colleagues, team members, and those they supervise/manage.  Clearly, individuals, teams, and the organization as a whole benefit when a work culture is more stress resilient and focused, open and fun!

Mark Gorkin, MSW, LICSW, "The Stress Doc" ™, a nationally acclaimed speaker, writer, and "Psychohumorist" ™, is a founding partner and Stress Resilience and Trauma Debriefing Consultant for the Nepali Diaspora Behavioral Health & Wellness Initiative. Current 247Compliance/Ijona Skills Training Expert; also,Leadership Coach/Training Consultant for the international Embry-Riddle Aeronautics University at the Daytona, FL headquarters. A former Stress and Violence Prevention Consultant for the US Postal Service, he has led numerous Pre-Deployment Stress Resilience-Humor-Team Building Retreats for the US Army. Mark also has extensive experience as a Critical Incident Consultant. The Doc is the author of Practice Safe Stress, The Four Faces of Anger, and Preserving Human Touch in a High-Tech World. Mark’s award-winning, USA Today Online "HotSite" – www.stressdoc.com – was called a "workplace resource" by National Public Radio (NPR).