Balancing the Stress and Strength of Burnout

Your Course Description

Mental Health Basics
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  • Burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma are protective, not defective responses to stress.
  • While you cannot control the onset of stressful events you will inevitably experience as a youth worker, you can learn to leverage stress to strengthen mental health and prevent burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma.
  • In this highly experiential 2-hour training, we will explore the science behind why we burn out and how to strategically manage the stress that feeds burnout and metabolize it into fuel that brings about mental health, emotional balance, and sustainable care.

Your Learning Objectives

  • Learn what mental health is and the five core competencies that support it
  • Learn about the anatomy of stress (the 4 E’s) and how it impacts your body, mind, and relationships
  • Know how to spot the differences between burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress by their causes and clues
  • Learn how your nervous system responds to stress and how simple mind-body practices can help you reset and build resilience
  • Experience healing-centered, trauma-responsive practices such as the HEAL method to strengthen your boundaries and protect your mental health

Your Course Details

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  • Icon Youth Worker Track
  • Icon This training will count as 2 CE hours for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. Course details for CE submissions provided.

Your Trainer

Reviewer Photo Dr. Jennifer Clifden intersects the science and soul of being well and thriving in heart-centered, healing/ helping professions. Jen is the founder of Present Well-Being LLC, and she creates evidence-based curriculum and experiences designed to systematically stoke human-service caregiver mental health, emotional agility, and soul resilience. Dr. Clifden’s keynotes, trainings, courses, and yoga retreats focus on research-based preventative and restorative practices that treat and heal soul sickness– burnout, compassion fatigue, moral injury, and sacrifice syndrome. Jen researches and teaches a strategic process for “burning in” to one’s calling through bringing more of one’s soul into their role. She draws on 26 years collective experience as a public-school teacher, university teacher educator, program administrator for the Minnesota Grow Your Own Teachers program at the University of Minnesota, mindfulness and yoga teacher, and mother of a 10th grader and twin 9th graders to raise awareness of the critical importance of caregiver soul health in heart-based callings to serve.
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Your Skill-Building Objectives

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Mental Health Awareness

Recognizing and responding to mental health concerns

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Resilience Building

Teaching coping strategies to overcome barriers

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Self-Care

Prioritizing well-being to give your best