Overview

This session will:

Understanding Burnout: The causes, signs, and symptoms of burnout. The associations with engagement, mental health and wellbeing, work-life balance, and overall performance and health.
Proactivity & Prevention: Evidence-based practices for proactively strengthening resources that buffer against burnout and prevent the downward spiral.
Recovery & Support: How to approach burnout recovery using personal strategies and practices, as well as reaching out for support and engaging with services that aid recovery and reduce the likelihood of future burnout.
Wellbeing Culture: How social resources in the workplace and home can foster a positive and supportive environment where people proactively check in and offer assistance to each other.
Leader Support: How to regularly check in with leaders to promote open communication, early intervention and support, and explore healthy work practices and wellbeing routines.

Outcomes

Key outcomes people walk away with include:

How to recognise burnout signs and symptoms in self and others.
Resources they can build to buffer against stress-related decline and promote recovery during extended periods of stress.
How different demands cause strain, and how to craft work and resources and demands for better person-work-life fit.
Evidence-based exercises that strengthen important mindsets to promote healthier stress reactions and responses.
Better understanding of the mind and body responses to stress, how to regulate the stress response mindfully, and the impacts of excessive and chronic stress.
How to set boundaries to prevent overload and other causes of prolonged stress, and to make time for self-care practices and support routines.

60 to 120 minutes