When Working Hurts: Effectively Addressing Stress in Trauma-Informed Workplaces.

• A sophisticated understanding of the mechanisms and effects of workplace stress and trauma in your environment
• An opportunity to identify the sources of resilience and risk in your workplace and personal life
• Self-assessment profiles of your current risk for workplace systemic and traumatic stress
• Self-assessment profile of your current levels of self-care in your personal and work life
• Self-assessment profile of your current levels of stress symptoms and effect
• Tools to develop an effective and practical wellness plan for your personal life
• A framework to develop realistic and effective strategies for your workplace

The individual online format provides particular advantages:

• It allows you to look more deeply at your own experiences and beliefs in a completely confidential and safe environment
• You are encouraged to print and save the results of your responses to the exercises, and your self-assessment
• This program is designed for repeated use – you can print out and compare your profiles over time
• You can flexibly schedule your own time to take the program
• You can hold yourself accountable to the plans and commitments you make to yourself

The program also provides guidance to help you self-facilitate discussions and activities in your workplace. These are designed to help you develop strategies and protocols which will increase the resiliency of your workplace and improve organizational health.

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The Critical Role of Leadership in Organizational Health

This workshop introduces managers to the critical role of Leadership strategies within our unique 4-tier Organizational Health Model. Understanding and applying our practical and comprehensive Organizational Health Model helps managers to effectively approach the complex human challenges that effect every aspect of organizational functioning. The goals and objectives of the workshop are:

• To introduce and apply the Organizational Health Model, and to discuss the risk and resiliency factors driving your Organizational Health profile
• To explore the vital role of managers in Organizational Health
• To provide self-assessment tools that allow managers to discover their areas of strength and challenge.
• To explore areas that are most challenging for managers: e.g., recruitment and retention, change management, staff turnover, building trust, transitioning into the manager’s role, communicating up and down, mentoring/coaching staff, generational differences, etc.
• To teach skills addressing the most prominent concerns, and explore strategies for managing challenging situations with staff.
• Facilitate dialogue to enhance development of a community of practice for managers.
• To identify areas for further training needs.

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When Working Hurts: Stress, Burnout & Trauma in the Workplace

This research-based, intensive workshop for staff and managers, is designed to address stress and trauma in high risk occupational sectors. The workshop is based upon one of three program textbooks, and program delivery is provided either by a Fisher & Associates Facilitator, or by means of our Train-the-Trainers Program. During the 2-day workshop, participants will:

• Become familiar with current information and theory regarding workplace stress and trauma.
• Complete a comprehensive battery of self-assessment tools.
• Develop and initiate individualized long-term wellness plans.
• Develop workplace strategies to mitigate and address workplace stress.

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Train-the-Trainers for the When Working Hurts Workplace Wellness Program

In the event that an organization adopts the train-the-trainers model of program delivery, the individuals selected will undergo an intensive 5-day train-the-trainers program that will provide them with the knowledge, skills and tools to deliver the program to staff, and to maintain the program as an ongoing organizational resource.

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The Manager’s Guide to Stress, Burnout and Trauma in the Workplace

This intensive workshop is specifically designed to assist managers as they address the risk and resiliency factors for stress burnout and trauma in their own workplaces. This examination includes the role of management style and strategies, and the impact of workplace stress and trauma on the staff they lead. The workshop is based upon one of three program textbooks, and program delivery is provided by a Fisher & Associates Facilitator. During this 2-day workshop participating managers will

• Become familiar with current leadership theory and organizational health principles.
• Become familiar the role of management strategies as applied to staff experience of workplace stress and trauma.
• Complete assessment tools regarding their own management style and the effects on staff.
• Determine the effects of workplace stress and trauma on their staff’s functioning.
• Develop a needs-risk analysis regarding the risk and resilience factors associated with workplace stress and trauma effects on their staff.
• Develop practical strategies to increase the resiliency of their staff and mitigate the impact of workplace stress.

Participants in this course must first complete the Workplace Wellness Program – either via the E-Course version or the 2-day workshop.

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