Stress, Change And Team Resilience Through Humor: An Interactive Playshop

Constant connectivity, numbers pressure and ongoing change make stress and change resilience a core work skill. This 60-minute interactive session looks at the individual and organizational traits that lead to burnout, the stages of burnout, and how task and support teams can act as a buffer.

Using the Stress Doc's "Get FIT" approach, you'll gain tools for burnout prevention and recovery, psychological hardiness and "Natural Speed". You'll also learn ways to deal with loss and change, defuse self-defeating power struggles and set boundaries in a positive way.

The session closes with playful storytelling that breaks down status barriers and builds a more open, inclusive and collaborative team culture.

• Recognize stress warning signs and the four stages of burnout
• Apply the six R's of burnout recovery and psychological hardiness
• Use the eight F's to manage loss and change
• Say no constructively and set positive boundaries
• Defuse power struggles with good questions and "I" messages
• Use team exercises and humor to build trust and inclusion

• Stress warning signs and the four stages of burnout
• The six R's of burnout recovery
• Managing transitions with research-based psychological hardiness
• Letting go and the eight F's for managing loss and change
• Saying no constructively to colleagues and senior staff
• Defusing power struggles with good questions and affirming "I" messages
• Reducing status tensions and building trust
• Team exercises and structures for stress, inclusion and collaborative problem solving
• Closing tips on humor, Natural Speed and brain agility, plus the "Shrink Rap"

In times of rapid change, personal resilience and healthy humor affect productivity, well-being and how well we connect and work with others. These skills shape how supportive and collaborative a team can be.

Employees at every level, from front line to senior management, will learn to recognize stress and burnout signs and build stress, conflict and change resilience in themselves and the people they work with.

All personnel levels – from front-line employees to all levels of management will gain skills, tools, and strategies for 1) identifying stress and burnout warning signs and 2) positively developing stress, conflict, and change resilience skills in both themselves and colleagues, team members, and those they supervise/manage. Clearly, individuals, teams, and the organization as a whole benefit when a work culture is more stress resilient and focused, open and fun!

Mark Gorkin, MSW, LICSW, "The Stress Doc" ™, a nationally acclaimed speaker, writer, and "Psychohumorist" ™, is a founding partner and Stress Resilience and Trauma Debriefing Consultant for the Nepali Diaspora Behavioral Health & Wellness Initiative. Current 247Compliance/Ijona Skills Training Expert; also,Leadership Coach/Training Consultant for the international Embry-Riddle Aeronautics University at the Daytona, FL headquarters. A former Stress and Violence Prevention Consultant for the US Postal Service, he has led numerous Pre-Deployment Stress Resilience-Humor-Team Building Retreats for the US Army. Mark also has extensive experience as a Critical Incident Consultant. The Doc is the author of Practice Safe Stress, The Four Faces of Anger, and Preserving Human Touch in a High-Tech World. Mark’s award-winning, USA Today Online "HotSite" – www.stressdoc.com – was called a "workplace resource" by National Public Radio (NPR).