Regulating Stress to Revitalize Mental Health

Your Course Description

Your Competency Focus Area

Mental Health Basics

Stress is a part of life and can even help improve mental health. No matter what type of youth work you do, you’re likely to face stress often.
In this training, you’ll learn about the 3 R’s (Rest, Restoration, and Revitalization) strategies that help reduce harmful stress and boost your mental health, so you can be at your best for yourself and the young people you work with. You'll restore your capacity for compassion, connection, and clarity.
This interactive course blends YIPA-created learning content with recorded video learning segments created by the featured trainer.

Your Learning Objectives

Learn how your nervous system reacts to stress and how to regulate it
Recognize the ways that stress can both cause harm and promote healing
Explore how to create and reinforce boundaries that revitalize your mental health system

Your Course Details

Interactive
Completion Certificate
Youth Worker Track
This training will count as 1 CE hour for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. Course details for CE submissions provided.

Your Trainer

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.