Professional
Self-Care Series
Check out this five-part Professional Self-Care Series designed for local public health department staff! This series covered both personal and organizational aspects of this work. Note: This event occurred in the past. Recordings from the Professional Sefl-Care Series are below.
Public health professionals across our communities are struggling. The demands of keeping others safe and healthy often takes precedence over our own well-being. However, we can’t give what we don’t have and practicing self-compassion offers an opportunity to build and maintain our own strength in even the toughest of times. In this series, we will discuss how our experiences shape our attitudes and behaviors related to self-compassion and offer personal and professional strategies to help fill our “well” in the moment and over the long haul.
“When we are kind to ourselves, we create a reservoir of compassion that we can extend to others.” – Dr. Bréné Brown
In this session, we’ll discuss the compassion fatigue cycle, the impacts of stress on how we communicate and offer strategies for managing stress in the moment to improve our well-being and strengthen connections with those we live and work with.
When we are under stress, often the last person we take care of is ourselves. In this session, we will talk about what self-compassion is – and what it isn’t. We will also explore how our upbringing impacts how we think about self-care and the messages we send to others about the importance of taking time to fill our own cups.
Most of us “know” that practicing self-care is important to healthy personal and professional relationships, but just can’t seem to find the time for “traditional” strategies (who has time to read?!). The Compass Wellness Model offers a framework for thinking about self-care differently and identifying everyday activities that fill our “well”.
Working in public health comes with many rewards – and stresses – and the pandemic has cast a particularly bright light on these, causing many to question their purpose and their ability to make a difference. In this session, we will look at the system drivers of compassion fatigue and identify strategies to help us get reconnected to our work.
Saying “yes” to the things we value, sometimes means saying “no”. In this session, we will discuss managing expectations of ourselves and others in the workplace and the importance of establishing and maintaining boundaries to build positive work cultures.
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Questions?
Contact the WSU Community Engagement Institute Center for Public Health Initiatives with any questions.