Fall 2023 Peer Education Meetings
Session #1: Eliminating Personal Burnout: 7 Crucial Skills
Thursday, November 30, 2023
7:30 – 9:30am
Location: Virtual/Zoom
Description: Burnout is an unpleasant and persistent state of feeling stuck, depleted, and living in a mess of negative emotions. It won’t just magically go away by pushing onward. The good news is that there are specific steps you can take to eliminate and prevent personal burnout.
Objective: Attendees will name 7 elements in eliminating personal burnout and decide on 2 action steps they can start immediately.
Speaker: Laura Greco, Certified Wellness Coach, Author, Speaker/Trainer
Session #2: Joyful Living: More Peace, Balance, and Happiness
Wednesday December 6, 2023
12:00pm – 2:00pm
Location: Virtual/Zoom
Description: Our daily joy can silently slip away until we notice our days seem dull and we have little enthusiasm. Becoming more engaged and joyful, both at home and at work, can be simple process. Take the reins and make it happen! Learn how to improve your health and well-being by creating more peace, balance, and joy in your life.
Objective: During this interactive virtual presentation attendees will gain clarity on how to live with more joy and enjoy life more. We will cover: the health benefits of joy; ways we diminish our joy; strategies for creating more joy.
Speaker: Laura Greco, Certified Wellness Coach, Author, Speaker/Trainer
Laura Greco is a certified wellness coach, author, and speaker/trainer with a 20+ year background in nursing who helps professionals eliminate burnout, manage stress, create life balance, and rekindle their sense of purpose and joy. She believes that self-care (body, mind, and spirit) is the basis for well-being and that we all have the capacity to make positive lifestyle changes. Her books include Wellness Made Simple, and Wellness Made Simple-for Residents.
For more information, please visit her website www.YouBloomWellness.com and follow her on Instagram @you.bloom.wellness
Session #3: Holiday Survival Guide
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
5:30pm – 7:30pm
Location: Virtual/Zoom
Description: We all have special feelings about the holidays. For many, it's a wonderful time for celebration, family gatherings and joyful memories. For others, it's a time of sadness and, possibly, a feeling of being overwhelmed.
Objective: In this seminar, participants examine sources of holiday stress and learn strategies for coping and managing their emotions, time, relationships and finances. Participants will also share ideas for organizing holiday tasks, managing holiday demands and look at the role of holiday traditions.
Speaker: Laurie Andries, MA, Marriage and Family Therapist
Laurie Andries, M.A. is a Marriage and Family Therapist with ten years of clinical experience working in community mental health and private practice, and for over 15 year has provided training and facilitation in both Seattle and Minneapolis. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a Master of Arts degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington.
Recordings from the Fall 2023 Peer Education Meetings coming soon!
Recordings from June 2023 Peer Education Meetings
Session #1: Balancing Your Act
Stress is part of everyone’s life, but if you don’t learn to find some balance, serious health consequences could be waiting! This presentation includes education, self-evaluation, and interactive exercises addressing what effects chronic stress can have on your health. Evaluation tools will be provided to help you identify your specific stressors and how well you are managing them.
Objective: Attendees will gain the knowledge and tools to help achieve and maintained a well-balanced life.
Speaker: Michelle Zellner, MS
Session #2: Impact of Substance Use on Professional Performance
Professionals use an array of substances that impact their health and work performance. With each substance having a potential for ergolytic or ergogenic impact, this presentation will review current information on cannabis, nicotine, alcohol, caffeine and vaping. As perceived risks of substances change, it is important to highlight the origin of information and how it is being positioned for professionals. Current assessment, diagnostic information and motivational interviewing techniques will be provided to prepare professionals, managers and staff to have intelligent substance conversations.
Objectives:
Identify trends in substance use and their impact on performance and health
Provide information about changes in perceived risk
Utilize assessment and diagnostic information to provide balanced messaging about the impact of substance use
Speaker: Dr. LaTisha Bader, PhD, LP, LAC, CMPC (she/her/hers), Chief Clinical Officer, Denver Women's Recovery
Session #3: Learning and Practicing Optimism
Pessimists believe that events will not only last a long time, but that they will ultimately undermine everything. Pessimistic individuals often feel helpless and may sink into depression, which is an epidemic today. Optimists, on the other hand, believe that defeat is a temporary setback or a challenge — it doesn't knock them down.
Objective: This training will teach participants to develop a new set of cognitive skills that will enable them to take charge, challenge irrational assumptions and accomplish more.
Speaker: Robert A. Mines, Ph.D.
Recordings from June 2022 Peer Education Meetings
Topic: Coping With Life Transitions – Growth through Grace and Gratitude
Description: Change is inevitable and a constant in our lives, even though it may not always be welcome. Resistance to change is to be expected as change brings uncertainty and can cause stress. The ability to move through difficulties with acceptance, compassion, and kindness will have a positive impact on the situation, as well as on your emotional wellbeing.
Speaker: Michelle Zellner
Topic: Combating Compassion Fatigue with Emotional Resilience
Description: Compassion fatigue, high stress, trauma, and burnout are all hazards of challenging workloads. As much as we’d like to, we can’t eliminate the many external stressors we experience in most of our jobs. Rather than to focus on traditional stress management, this workshop will focus on strengthening emotional resilience.
Speaker: Dr. Robert Mines