Day 2: Wednesday, April 16th (In person)
9:00 am - 4:00 pm at Delta Hotels Mpls NE
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am |
Guided Meditation Activity |
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This session will be centered around learning more about meditation and practicing together to create a meaningful moment of pause to begin your day. The session will include active participation with short guided meditation by Jasmine Johnson, Co-Founder of Black Zen.
Black Zen is focused on incorporating wellness in communities that currently bear the brunt of social, economic and political injustice, yet this movement is about all people finding more peace. In a society of increased social tensions that seek to divide, this is an effort to share the benefits of meditation to create a more thoughtful and just society. Black Zen is not another self-help initiative, but a social movement dedicated to changing the course of human tolerance and interaction.
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| 10:00 am - 11:30 am |
Working from the Inside Out for Wholeness and Balance |
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Lora's teachings are grounded in her own life experience both as a trauma survivor and as a psychotherapist and educator with decades of experience in health care and nonprofits. She understands the impact working in human services and experiencing and witnessing trauma, can have on your wellbeing. She'll share the tools, practices, and mindset shifts that she's developed to help her navigate life and work in a way that balances the hard and the good. Her session will blend practices of mindfulness, deep inquiry, spiritual psychology, body work, and more. She'll guide us through questioning what beliefs we've been conditioned to hold about ourselves and our emotions, teaching us how to safely embrace radical transparency as a tool for building deeper connections and lifting shame from ourselves, our colleagues, and our clients, so that we can find a sense of balance and wholeness.
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Learning Objectives:
- Reframe your self-work as critical self-care. Self-work doesn't always feel good at first, in fact it can feel scary and really hard, but the payoff is huge. You deserve self-care because you deserve access to joy.
- Learn how to *safely* embrace radical transparency and how it can lead to deeper connections and be a healing super power for yourself AND in your work with colleagues and clients.
- Gain the skills to interrogate what you've been conditioned to believe about yourself including which emotions are wrong, or shameful - especially in the workplace.
- Learn to recognize when those beliefs no longer serve you, and learn practices to help you let them go.
- Learn strategies that are accessible to anyone, anytime, anyplace that can help you contextualize and balance challenging or even traumatic situations so you can navigate them skillfully AND stay mentally healthy and whole.
Who should come:
- Humans!
- Frontline staff who interact with clients and community members through challenging, and too often traumatic situations
- Managers who want to learn how to help their teams navigate the emotional challenges of their work with empathy and balance.
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Breakouts Round 1:
| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Values as a Form of Self-Care |
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Through her own story, Jean will help us see how connecting to your values opens up awareness and understanding of what matters to you. She'll invite us to boldly consider: what feeds us, and then with curiosity ask ourself how much time we spend operating with our values in mind? Learn how your values can help you draw meaningful boundaries and how owning your values can strengthen you when your boundaries are challenged - especially when navigating power imbalances! With all the current pain & uncertainty that we see through our work and in the world - community is necessary. Jean will create a critical space for hope and wholeness where we can take a pause together, breath, and connect with each other deeply through our values without the baggage of guilt or shame. We'll learn how to listen to what our bodies are telling us, how to stay present while we're going through hard situations, and how our values can help us set healthy boundaries, work with others, and deal with burnout and overwhelm.
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Learning Objectives:
- Enter a space where you can take a breather and receive hope and wholeness and connect with your community of human services professionals!
- Explore your values and learn how your values can help you navigate your work to prioritize what fills you up and brings you joy.
- Explore how your values can help you define healthy boundaries AND be a tool for navigating difficult conversations and power dynamics when your boundaries are challenged
- Learn techniques that will help you listen to your body, stay present and calm both proactively AND when you're in the middle of difficult stations!
Who should come:
This workshop is for human beings. You only have to show up as you: it doesn't matter your professional level or how long you've been in the work. You'll bring something of value to the conversation (yourself!) and get value out of it.
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| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Compassion Fatigue & Burnout: Strategies for Organizations |
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How can organizations create an environment that fosters well-being and reduces the incidents of compassion fatigue and burnout?
This one-hour breakout will focus on organizational strategies for addressing compassion fatigue and burnout. Hear from expert trainer Warren Duncan from People Inc. Training Institute. You’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and share your own experiences.
Burnout is a general term that describes the chronic and cumulative effect of different stresses at work and how it negatively impacts the worker’s health and wellbeing. If unaddressed, the various stresses of Human Services work contribute to an erosion of compassion and empathy which reduces a worker’s effectiveness in helping others, rendering the worker ineffective and lacking confidence. This class builds awareness of the signs and stages of Compassion Fatigue and Burnout and offers strategies for cultivating compassion satisfaction in team dynamics.
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Learning Objectives
- Recognize warning signs of burnout and compassion fatigue
- Review of the “why” of caregiver work
- Assess current potential for compassion satisfaction
- Introduce strategies for reducing burnout in organizations
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Breakouts Round 2:
| 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm |
Compassion fatigue & Burnout: Strategies for Individuals |
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How can we as individuals make our work lives better? Burnout is a general term that describes the chronic and cumulative effect of different stresses at work and how it negatively impacts the worker’s health and wellbeing.
If unaddressed, the various stresses of Human Services work contribute to an erosion of compassion and empathy which reduces a worker’s effectiveness in helping others, rendering the worker ineffective and lacking confidence. This class led by expert trainer Warren Duncan from People Inc. builds awareness of the signs and stages of Compassion Fatigue and Burnout and offers strategies for cultivating compassion satisfaction for the individual and in team dynamics.
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Learning Objectives:
- Recognize warning signs of burnout and compassion fatigue
- Review of the “why” of caregiver work
- Assess current potential for compassion satisfaction
- Introduce strategies for reducing burnout in individuals
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| 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm |
Unlocking Workforce Wellness: Ideas, Insights, and Inspiration |
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Tap into the powerful hivemind of your MACC network colleagues! Solving the wellness challenges in our sector isn't easy - if it was, we wouldn't need this Summit. Good news - no one has all the answers! Wait…how is that good news??? Because it should take some weight off your shoulders. No one has all the answers already - that's why we need each other. This session is an opportunity to workshop your wellness ideas, dig into questions and dilemmas, hear directly from your network colleagues what they've tried and how it went, and support each other as we learn together!
Conquer limiting beliefs:
It's easy to get caught in the weeds or feel overwhelmed by your never-ending to-do list. This conversation can help you zoom out to see the bigger picture and get fresh perspectives on your roadblocks. Everyone stands to benefit from the collective wisdom of the whole—and from the outside perspective each member brings to the table.
Shorten the learning curve:
It takes time to learn to be successful at something, but when you can get in a room of people who have done the thing you’re trying to do, you can learn from them. This shrinks the time to success. Grow alongside like-minded colleagues as we encourage each other, and learn from each other's experiences.
Grow your network:
This is a great space to connect with your colleagues and other leaders across the MACC network! Find people working through the same challenges you are, and make connections with like-minded human services professionals who are passionate about improving the wellness of our collective workforce!
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