Artistry of Wellbeing At Work

This course is for all of us who are responsible for the welfare and safety of others. If you are a mental health service provider, home carer, nurse, health and emergency services, paramedic, criminal investigator, family child protection officer, police enforcement, highway patrol, cybersecurity officer, law enforcer, this list is endless, we know you work with people, situations, under extreme pressure and high work loads. Your role brings you into contact with extraordinary complex and distressing material and traumatised vulnerable people. You are qualified and trained to do your work, registered to practice. The expectation that we can be immersed in suffering and loss daily and not be touched by it is an unrealistic. What can sustain you and keep you whole will be guided by self care practices that build insight, self awareness, compassion and value alignment. Spirituality comes into play, there has to be more to this life spark of time you are on this Earth. Maybe, maybe not! Your ability to ask for help, to have trusted and kind leaders and team mates where you have psychosocial safety, trust, respect and kindness, they sustain you when the going gets tough. Your family, friends and outside interests. Keeping you whole and well is a shared responsibility. Defining compassion fatigue, moral injury, vicarious trauma symptoms is one aspect toward greater self awareness. You as the individual, your workplace culture and the institutions, organisations are connected and play an important role in maintaining your wellbeing too. During this 9 day Insight timer course you will be able to practice evidenced based best practices for deep and nourishing care. We will touch on the importance of Peer support programs, wellbeing champions at work and the role of your manager and team in contributing to maintaining your wellbeing. A whole person, strengths based, dynamic compassionate leaders and healthy relationships, will sustain your wellbeing. The wisdom gained from your life of service (vocation) is invaluable and I encourage you to share your wisdom and compassion with all of us in our student question and answers portal. I am sharing with you important practices and mindful ways, that have helped to sustain me over a long period of service as a psychologist - through the many thousands of compassionate conversations and stories I have held through the years of my work, including a commitment to my meditation practices and wellbeing, I have been growing neural pathways in my prefrontal cortex that have enable me to feel responsive, present, kind and fun loving. Compassion grows and expands, I wish to share these practices with you. Let's begin.