Cultivating Professional Resilience

Ahead of Mental Health Awareness week, Life A Plenty Charitable Trust is offering two Professional Development opportunities centred around “Cultivating Professional Resilience - Unlocking Workplace Wellbeing”. This is an opportunity to learn the tools to transform stress to strengths, gaining pragmatic tools and ideas to address and prevent burnout. The workshops will address how to positively influence workplace culture, lead with wellbeing in mind, support others through burnout, and sustain your own professional and personal levels of wellness. Come to one or come to both.

The morning session: 9.00am - 12.30pm
“Beyond Burnout: How to Spot it, Stop it and Stamp it Out.”
Suzi McAlpine
This three hour seminar will focus on what leaders and individuals can do to identify and manage stress to avoid burnout in themselves, their colleagues and those they lead. This will include practical tools and tips which can be applied at an individual, leadership and organisational level to address burnout. She will draw from key research and concepts from her bestselling book, Beyond Burnout: How to Spot it, Stop it and Stamp it Out.”

The afternoon session: 1.30pm - 4.00pm
“Using Emotional Intelligence to Combat Burnout”
Lindsey Rayner & Kate Figgins
This 2.5 hour awareness and skills-based session will focus on the early recognition of physiological signs of stress, and how to effectively minimise the potential for burnout. Through interactive discussions and practical exercises, attendees will learn to identify early signs of stress and burnout and understand the potential impact this has on general Wellness. A key component of the workshop is centred around practical mental and behavioural skills that can be implemented at work or at home to remain productive and composed under pressure. The session will be delivered through the lens of Emotional Intelligence and the intrapersonal skill sets of self-awareness and self-regulation.