Workshops and presentations are an efficient and beneficial way to decrease distress and promote well-being in your office, department, or community. Workshops run 1-2 hours, depending on your schedule, and are always tailored to your specific needs and concerns. Workshops can be a one-time event or run as a brief series to dive more deeply into a certain topic. Possible topics are listed below, or we are happy to work with you to create a new boutique workshop.
- Managing your Stress: We teach effective stress management and how to incorporate it into your life
- Improving Work-life Balance: We help you identify imbalances in your work and life and provide you with the tools to rebalance your work and life
- Bringing more Mindfulness into your Real Life: We teach you how to incorporate mindfulness into your busy life and help you become more present in your life
- Increasing Resilience and Having a Growth Mindset: We provide the skills to lead a more resilient and growth-focused life
- Understanding and Preventing Burnout: We show you how to identify burnout in yourself and others; and, more importantly, how to prevent it
- Move your Body, Rest your Body: Activity/exercise is one of the best ways to manage stress and take care of your mental health. And sleep is the foundation of our thinking, as well as our physical and mental health. This workshop will help you better understand how essential each of these activities are for your well-being, and you will learn effective strategies to help you improve both.
- Improving Suicide Prevention: This workshop teaches you how recognize distress, how to listen to others more effectively and compassionately, and how to intervene in a helpful manner
- Increasing Self-Compassion: We instruct you on how to bring self-compassion in your life and why it will help you live a more joyful life
- Combatting Impostor Syndrome: We teach you how to identify impostor syndrome in yourself and others, what contributes to it, and how to combat it
- Increasing Effective Communication: This workshop will help you become a more effective and assertive communicator
- Understanding and Preventing Compassion Fatigue: Compassion fatigue is common in caring professions, such as those who care for animals or human patients. In this workshop, compassion fatigue will be explained and differentiated from burnout. A variety of individual and workplace strategies will be discussed to improve or prevent compassion fatigue in caregivers.
- How Leaders can Support their Staff and Help Prevent Compassion Fatigue: Leaders who support lab animal professionals can play an important role in protecting their staff from compassion fatigue. This workshop gives a brief overview of compassion fatigue and symptoms, so that leaders better understand the condition. Then a variety of strategies are discussed that leaders can easily implement to improve staff well-being, productivity, and retention.
- Growing your Emotional Intelligence: Emotional Intelligence is the ability to understand your own emotions and the emotions of others and to use your emotions effectively to guide thinking and action. This workshop will help you better understand what this is, assess your own skills, and help you improve your emotional intelligence regardless of your current level of ability.
- Incorporating Effective Self-care and Sleep Hygiene: This workshop will help you better understand what self-care is, how it includes good sleep, why it is important, and how to take better care of yourself so that you may more fully engage in your life and take care of others.
- Understanding and Addressing Moral Stress: Moral stress is common in most professions, but it can be prevalent in animal research. In this presentation, the concept of moral stress will be explained and factors that could lead to it will be addressed. Additionally, a variety of strategies to help protect oneself from moral stress at work will be discussed.
- Manage your Technology-Don't let it manage you: Why is everyone on FaceBook happy? Should I leave my phone on when I go to bed? Why does my use of social media fuel my "fomo"? This workshop teaches how technology can lead to distress and the tools to use technology in a productive life-fulfilling way
- Understanding Gender Identity: Transgender, non-binary, gender queer/fluid. This informative workshop demystifies these terms and provides you with the knowledge and language to better support these individuals in your community
- Everything I Need to Know I Learned Doing a Spartan: This autobiographical workshop teaches you that the lessons that I learned from my journey of overcoming a personal challenge
