A Workshop for Your Body, Brain, and Mental Health

The pace, complexity, and load of modern municipal work has changed dramatically. Technology, budget challenges, social media, and demanding residents challenge every office and employee. The risk for individuals and departments is burnout. Burnout, unattended, leads to safety concerns, poor work, conflict, and eventually, mental health challenges. The best news is that every human being can be taught the fundamental skills of resilience.

Resilience is the ability to bounce back from challenging situations and difficult seasons. While everyone has the natural capacity to handle stress some of the time, all of us can learn to reduce stresses’ impact, and as a result, prevent burnout. The skills taught in this workshop will include measuring stress levels, stepping back from reactive people and problems, assessing brain health, identifying memory files that promote mental health, and adding interventions before burnout kicks in. Participants will leave with practical new habits to improve their daily life at work and home.

Learning Objectives for this session:

• Notice stress, its signs, and personal and professional triggers
• Measure stress and regularity of other brain health activities
• Step back from stress in the moment
• Identify the already present and new habits and memory files that reduce stress daily

 This course qualifies for 3 SHRM PCD recertification credit hours