Many teams know they need help to manage stress (better). Often, inspiration arises from understanding more about the central nervous system and its links to our physical and mental health. This session presents the latest neuroscience (including polyvagal theory) and uses the Personal Stress Prescription so that each participant designs their own plan by the end of 45 minutes together.
Here are Susan and Gabby leading Neuroscience of Stress and Self-Prescriptions in May.
During a pandemic, we must boost our immune systems so we can resist infection even after coronavirus exposure. This science-based session quickly goes over 15 Immune Boosters your team can consider adopting. Here's one session: https://youtu.be/rg2kq_t3a2U and here's another where Susan and Ty focus on teachers: https://youtu.be/GLO0hdzr0JA.
Wellness Equity is the concept that those who suffer the most stress should receive more wellness resources. The Stressor Scorecard is a way to measure identities and circumstances that bring stress and discuss it, safely, as a team. In this session, Mo and Susan go over microaggressions, intersectionality and how to use the Stressor Scorecard with a group: Wellness Equity & the Stressor Scorecard.
This interactive session was developed for civilians at the Pentagon, and has been tweaked, presented, and enjoyed by many audiences over the last six years. The presentation gives three directives of how to design five-minute "boosts" that bring productivity and joy. We also look at dozens of ways to practice. Here's one Susan version https://youtu.be/XeolMhxCMos. And this one, led by Susan and Ty, had a surprise cryotherapy session at the end: Take Five: The Best 5-Min Brain Breaks
"Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world.
All things break. All things can be mended.
Not with time, as they say, but with intention.
So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally.
The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you."
― L.R. Knost
Our sister organization, Nonprofit Wellness, completed a Pilot to prevent burnout and promote mental health among stressed-out nonprofit staff. The report is ready and we'd love for you to read our five findings and five recommendations.
Need more support nurturing physical, mental, and team health at work? Various webinars are now on our YouTube channel, most 40 minutes or less, with helpful tips/tools to take back to your team. We also have 10-minute workouts to spice up your day and juice up your body/brain breaks, as well as a one-minute series of bilingual "Consejos de Bienestar" videos.
In July 2020, we released the evaluation of a 60-person Pilot program on physical, mental, and team health at DC nonprofits. The project is led by Nonprofit Wellness, which has a fund at the Greater Washington Community Foundation. Check out our Wellness Equity report!
More at www.nonprofitwellness.org
Ty and Susan spoke to North Star Sleep School on this podcast Also in 2021, Susan took Tony to task on a new Nonprofit Radio (invited back after Susan and Mo Abdullah talked with Tony on the 2020 Team-care pod). From 2018 but still fresh is this podcast with host Jakub Górnicki, recorded when Susan was the only American trainer at Megaphone2018, a TechSoup Europe conference in Cluj-Napoca.
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