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Workplace Wellness, Wholeness & Wisdom:
Clearly, understanding how personal, professional and structural loss,
change and unfinished or anticipated grieving impact an employee’s
role-relationship-team performance is mission critical for corporations and
organizations. An effective
manager must be able to demonstrate basic understanding and also
communicate, coordinate and collaborate creatively to achieve optimal
workplace “health and productivity.”
This employee-management-organizational connection is especially
vital in economically uncertain, rapidly changing, “doing more with less,”
bottom-line conscious and burnout-vulnerable times.
Workplace Wellness
While many corporate wellness experts focus on factors like exercise and
diet, grief and grieving are vital concerns that are often overlooked.
Grief issues and stressors – past, present and even future – all too
easily and often get acted out at work, e.g., from death of a loved one and
relationship breakup to job loss/relocation and even the stress of caring
for an infirmed or elderly family member.
And key losses may not be faced or sufficiently-effectively grieved for
years, quietly draining energy or spawning secondary stress and
interpersonal conflict symptoms.
In addition, research reveals that when confronted by a cluster of
significant life changes within two years, even positive changes, e.g., a
promotion, there’s often an adverse impact on stress and wellness.
Wholeness & Wisdom as Well
However, engaging with grief and learning to “let go” transcends “Wellness";
it encompasses “Wholeness and Wisdom” as well.
The powerful psychological dynamic of “letting go” helps disarm
self-defeating power struggles while igniting new personal and group energy;
a capacity for “Retreat and Renewal” (the other “R & R” – taking an
“incubation vacation”) generates imaginative and insightful problem-solving
possibilities-pathways and may well inspire others.
And the key to “letting go” is a willingness to risk.
Have no fear (well, maybe a little)…acclaimed speaker Mark Gorkin,
MSW, LICSW, the “Stress Doc” ™ is here with dynamic and inspiring
presentation along with thought-provoking and
FUN group exercises to help you
better understand the connection between grief, “letting go” and “Workplace
Wellness, Wholeness & Wisdom.”
Let the Doc help you bring “The Three ‘W’s” into your workplace!
Objectives
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Understand the Critical Importance of Grief in the Wellness GED
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Master and Apply the Six “F”s of Personal-Organizational Grief, Loss and
Change
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Learn to Recognize and Control Grief/Emotional – Authority, Sibling, etc. –
Hot Buttons
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Use “Good Questions” and Courageous Listening to Defuse Power Struggles and
Build Trust
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Discover “Three Keys to Wisdom” and the Doc’s Holistic Model, “The Four ‘P’s
of Passion Power”
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Learn to “Jump In,” “Fail Faster & Better”, Modulate Anxious “B.S.” – “Be
Safe” – Messages
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Recognize the Link between “Letting Go” and Risk-Taking, Creativity and
Inspiring Leadership
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Learn to Laugh At and Share Stories About Your Own Flaws and Foibles
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Discover and Develop a Plan to Integrate Workplace Wellness, Wholeness &
Wisdom
Seek the higher power of Stress Doc humor:
May the Farce Be with You!
Don’t miss your appointment with the Stress Doc.
(P.S. Mark’s dad died this past
Father’s Day and this program is a tribute to his legacy and their
conflicted-connected still ever evolving relationship.)
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Program Outline, Opportunities & Outcomes
A. The Workplace Wellness GED and "Loss, Grief, and Change" Connection
Seek the higher power of Stress Doc humor: May the Farce Be with You!
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