Join Workhuman® for a fireside chat about burnout in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month. Hear personal stories of overcoming high stress, as well as valuable insights about how to help your employees find balance and prioritize wellbeing at work.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

• The impact of burnout on organizations and how leaders can recognize early warning signs in their teams

• How to offer real support to your employees through proven methods such as strategic recognition

• Why offering wellness benefits isn’t the same as supporting every dimension of employee wellbeing

• Ways to shield against burnout during Mental Health Awareness Month and beyond

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This topic will describe research addressing biopsychosocial factors influencing stress-related health disparities and relevant interventions.

Dr. Cheryl L. Woods Giscombé, PhD, PMHNP-BC is a distinguished professor, psychiatric nurse practitioner, and social and health psychologist. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine, and the Mind & Life Institute. She is also an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. Giscombé was named a Leader in the Field by the American Psychological Association, and her community-engaged research on mindfulness, mental health, and wellness for Black women has been consistently funded by the National Institutes of Health and other national foundations and healthcare organizations for the past twenty years. Dr. Woods Giscombé is the author of a forthcoming book, The Black Woman’s Guide to Coping with Stress: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Skills to Create a Life of Joy and Well-Being (New Harbinger, 2024).

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe critical considerations for operationalizing stress to understand disproportionately high rates of stress-related health conditions among African American women. 

2. Describe biopsychosocial mechanisms of stress-related health conditions among African American women.

3. Describe culturally-relevant approaches that may reduce stress-related health conditions among African American women.

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Compassion has benefits that are not only intuitively understood, but are also well documented in the literature. With compassion being the foundation of healthcare, the question is what prevents us from being more compassionate more often? Join us as we discuss the 5 barriers to compassion and ways to overcome them. These powerful practical tools will empower our healthcare professionals to express more compassion to patients and peers without adding any more demands or tasks to their already full plate.

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3 Mindfulness Practices to Reduce Overwhelm and Lead with Passion and Purpose at Work

If you are a busy leader faced with competing priorities and you feel pulled in too many directions at work, join this free webinar to explore practices to reduce overwhelm and to stay connected to your passion and purpose at work. Christa Tinari, director of Contemplative-Based Resilience, and Sander Tideman, CEO and Founder of Triple Value Leadership, will discuss how to apply awareness practices to realize in-the-moment that you need “a moment.” You’ll also learn how to use three micro-practices for centering yourself amidst the pressured pace at work.

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This session led by nurses in the Chief Wellbeing Officer (CWO) Role will discuss the position in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). The speakers will explore how this role contributes to the wellbeing of clinicians and the overall organizational health. They will also discuss the support mechanisms that are necessary for executing these strategies in the field, so that the wellbeing initiatives can truly make a difference in the lives of healthcare professionals. 

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the role of the CWO in VHA: Attendees will be able to define the responsibilities, goals, and strategic importance of the Chief Wellbeing Officer within VHA, including how this role contributes to clinician wellbeing and organizational health.

2. Analyze key lessons in effective communication and role clarity: Attendees will summarize the critical lessons learned regarding effective communication strategies, clearly defining the role, and the management of competing initiatives within healthcare settings to enhance clinician wellbeing and operational efficiency.

3. Evaluate strategies for national dissemination and implementation: Attendees will discuss the national dissemination and implementation strategies for wellbeing initiatives.

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How can we be mindful in everyday life? Mindfulness has entered the mainstream in recent years, but most of us still think of it more as a meditation practice than a constant way of living.

At this special event, the legendary "father of modern mindfulness" Jon Kabat-Zinn will help us reconnect with how to cultivate moment-to-moment awareness - the essential life skill which helps us pay deeper attention to our mind, body and heart. Rather than seeing mindfulness as an occasional practice, Jon will help us recognise that life itself is our meditation practice. And you can learn to make this the way you actually live your everyday life.

Jon will share how to be more "at home with yourself", starting with a simple willingness to stay in the present moment and just see what happens. Because every single precious moment is the only moment you actually have. This awareness helps you to 'befriend' your mind, let go of negative self-talk and recognise that "there's more right with you than wrong with you". You can then also discover that there is no such thing as "myself" in isolation. We are all part of something bigger.

By joining this unique live conversation with Jon, you'll learn that you're a remarkable human being with amazing capacities for love, wisdom, connection and contributing to making the world a better place - or for whatever it is that you most love.

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Your happiness and success depend on your working relationships. The people you manage. Your boss. Key collaborators. Important clients. Most of us leave the health and fate of these relationships to chance. We hope for the best, and immediately get into the work.

Join Glain Roberts-McCabe and Michael Bungay Stanier (MBS), award winning author, teacher and speaker, as they discuss his newest book How to Work with (Almost) Anyone. Every relationship gets dinged at some point, and when that happens, most of us don’t know what to do about it. We are resigned to the fact that this is what happens: relationships always get a little broken, or a little stale, or a little worse. C’est la vie, c’est la guerre. Carry on.

In this practical and interactive session, you'll learn how to reverse that trend and build the best possible working relationship with anyone. (Well, almost anyone.) We look forward to seeing you there!

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Very often, we find ourselves facing pressures that impact our relationships at home and in the workplace. This session will illustrate how burnout and chronic stress change social interactions, and will provide strategies that promote healthy communication and stronger, more satisfying relationships during challenging times. This interactive session will help attendees:

• Understand attachment theory and how individual attachment style can impact relationships

• Learn effective communication strategies to incorporate when feeling burnt out or stressed

• Develop techniques for managing difficult conversations, personalities, and situations

• Navigate peaceful disagreements with anyone, including colleagues and family members 

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Across the world a new framework for education is emerging based on the principals of compassion. Seen as a shift from more competitive or hierarchical approaches, this has been driven by both the desire to create educational environments that inspire learning but also by a recognition of the need to enhance children and young adult's learning about their brains and emotional states. Together with experts we will explore the ideas behind a compassionate education and how we can put them into practice.

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The predominant focus of mindfulness-based approaches to date has been supporting individuals to manage challenging situations, so that negative emotions do not escalate out of control and skilful life choices can be made.

There is now increasing interest in using mindfulness techniques to also help individuals make the most of life opportunities, so that positive emotions and broader wellbeing (pleasure, meaning and social connection) can be enhanced.

This talk will introduce ways mindfulness-based treatments are being adapted to also build positive emotions and wellbeing, including how they are translating findings from basic science and other treatment approaches.

The talk will be delivered by Barney Dunn and Megan Colletta from the Mood Disorders Centre, University of Exeter (which runs a clinic and range of research trials of mindfulness and other approaches that aim to build wellbeing in clinical populations).

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What does it mean to be fully alive? Catherine Duncan in her book, “Everyday Awakening”, explores three life-changing events and the five practices learned. Life is the ultimate continuing educator. Realizing and living our true life is a sacred gift we all deserve. This webinar will explore what it means to live from the inside out - body, mind, and spirit - and to feel vibrantly alive.

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The Power of Forgiveness to liberate our hearts with Neelama Eyres Forgiveness has massive transformative potential. Join us for an insightful exploration led by Neelama Eyres, Co-Founder of Applied Compassion Training (CCARE) at Stanford University, to uncover the essence of forgiveness and its capacity to soften and open our hearts. We'll learn about the intersection of compassion and forgiveness and gain valuable insights into overcoming common barriers. The session, held on Zoom, will also include a guided forgiveness practice, and time for discussion and questions. We hope you'll join us for this wonderful opportunity to learn, grow and share a heart-opening experience together.

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