Wellness Matters Webinar — Stress & Resilience

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Everyone experiences stress. It is your physical, emotional, and mental response to life. Your body experiences hormonal changes and physiological responses when you are faced with a stressor. This is known as the stress response. The way you view stress has an impact on your wellbeing and ability to cope and learn from stress. Learning new coping skills and habits will help you get better at stress and build resilience – or the ability to survive, thrive and bounce back from more challenging times. In this talk, we explore:

  • What is stress? Types of stress, the causes, and symptoms of stress.

  • Coping with stress

  • What is resilience?

  • Resilience factors & developing a resilience plan

Facilitated by: Sasha Seliga

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Wellness Matters Webinar — building inner resources through artistic expression

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This is a relaxed evening to explore tapping into your resources to support you in tough times like COVID-19. This Wellness Webinar uses objects, drawing, and various forms of exploring our inner resources. We will begin by exploring and reflecting on our inner qualities by exploring them, building reminders through art. To attend this webinar, you do not need to be an artist, nor do you need any unique supplies. Let loose, allow creativity to flourish, and enjoy the exploration of self.

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Wellness Matters Webinar — Self Care for Helping Professionals

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This talk will educate and support helping professionals by highlighting the importance of self-care. We will examine compassion fatigue and burnout, learn self-care strategies, and develop a self-care plan. Participants will learn useful strategies including how to effectively transition from the workplace into the home environment.

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Wellness Matters Webinar — Nurturing Resiliency Through Creative Expression

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In this webinar, Julie Ketel explores the relationship between creative expression and human resilience. Learn more about establishing your own creative practice to deal with the challenges and setbacks that life has to offer. In this Wellness Talk, participants will: Review historical and cultural connections between creativity and wellbeing Receive a brief overview of the field of art therapy Dive deeper into the concept of resiliency, why it is so important, and what is required to nurture it Receive practical creative strategies to practice nurturing their own resiliency from the comfort of their own homes

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Staying Mentally Healthy: Preventing Loneliness While Socially Distancing

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This new social norm to stay physically distant from others, away from our usual places of gathering, and to avoid touch in rituals of greeting and affection, is creating a sense of loss and anxiety for many. For others, their social connection has long felt awkward or absent and these new restrictions only intensify what was already there. Keeping connected, however, is important for our physical and mental immunity. No matter what your usual style, this webinar will help you stay healthy by understanding the emotion of loneliness and developing personal strategies to keep it at bay.

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Navigating Caregiver Burnout and Compassion Fatigue in the Midst of the COVID Pandemic

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Being in a helping role can be overwhelming and exhausting during routine times. With the arrival of the CO-VID 19 pandemic, health care professionals and caregivers are facing more uncertainty, greater risk of exposure and added stress while caring for patients and our community’s most vulnerable citizens. In this webinar, Adam Sartore addresses how the COVID-19 pandemic can place health care workers and caregivers at greater risk of burnout and compassion fatigue. The webinar also offers strategies and resources for finding moments of personal wellness and navigating the emotional stress of helping during these uncertain times.

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Connecting With Others In a Time of Disconnection

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Do you know your love language? What are the things that make the people in your life feel truly loved and supported? During this time when we are all being encouraged to socially distance, it is normal to feel some loneliness, and perhaps even a bit lost at times. In this webinar, Cynthia Smith offers creative ideas about how to have our emotional needs met, and experience meaningful connection with others, during this challenging time.

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