Nature and Nurture: Boost Mental Health, Productivity and Self Care

Fluorescent lights. Cubicles. Internal offices with no windows. Low energy. Sound familiar? We are spending less time outdoors than ever before. However, the impact of getting outside (and bringing nature inside) has great benefits for self care, mental health and productivity (for both us and our clients).

Learning Objectives

  • Learn the benefits of the outdoors for self care
  • Learn how getting outside improves mental health
  • Learn how getting outside improves productivity and focus
  • Learning about the mood-boosting benefits of the great outdoors for your clients, community and YOU!

About the Presenter: Hannah Maertz

Hannah has spent most of her career working in the non-profit sector, preparing at-risk youth for employment and education opportunities, programming public radio, and providing care to folks in need. Hannah is now is a Community Manager for a coworking space in downtown Minneapolis.

When not at work, you’ll find Hannah exploring Minneapolis on bike, checking out a local music show, or passionately discussing the importance of spending time in the outdoors. She has a B.A. in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and a B.A.S in Psychology from the University of Minnesota – Duluth.

Surviving and Thriving During Uncertainty, Stressful Times and Beyond

Speaker Josh Dye

Stress. Anxiety. Frustration. Fear. Uncertainty. Have you felt any of these emotions lately?

If so, you are not alone. 

The COVID-19 pandemic and recent social unrest are taking a toll on our emotional, physical, social, and financial health. 

Self care is hard for many of us during ‘normal’ times. How are we supposed to manage all of this? 

There are three common problems with a lot of self care advice:

1. It is too basic (yeah…I already know I’m supposed to exercise, eat right and go to bed early!).

2. It creates extra work during an already stressful time. (“Do this new thing, this new thing, AND this new thing and you’ll turn your life around!”).

3. It’s unrealistic (No, most of us can’t actually do it all, especially during times like this. Some balls will drop!).

Let’s explore a better way to do self care. 

In this webinar you will learn (Learning objectives):

  • Triggers – How to identify what is bothering you, so you can resolve it.
  • Anti-Goals – How to identify what you don’t want to do, so you can do what you want.
  • Subtraction – What to eliminate to make your life better.
  • Dropping the ball – What commitments to drop and what to preserve when time gets tight.

You will also learn practical tips on how to manage difficult emotions, achieve mental strength, and maintain physical and financial health during difficult times.

Next Level Self Care

Speaker Josh Dye

Next level self care is more than just mastering coping mechanisms.

It requires sacrifice that allows us to develop a resilient lifestyle that thrives no matter what is happening in the world.

Next level self care is hard, and not always fun, but worth it.

In this training you will learn:  (Learning Objectives)

  • How to establish healthy boundaries in relationships.
  • How to become more emotionally resilient.
  • Resources to improve fitness and nutrition.
  • Next level financial self care.

Next level self care is about prioritizing and making hard trade-offs. Learn how in this training!

The 7 Types of Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity

Speaker Dr Saundra Dalton Smith

Popular based on survey feedback!

How can we keep our energy, happiness, creativity, and relationships thriving in the midst of never-ending family demands, career pressures, and the stress of everyday life?

Through rest.

But rest is more than just sleep. 

According to Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, a board-certified internal medicine doctor, there are 7 essential types of rest we must get:

  • Physical
  • Mental
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional
  • Sensory
  • Social
  • Creative

A deficiency in any one of these types of rest can have unfavorable effects on our health, happiness, relationships, creativity, and productivity.

In this webinar you will learn: (Learning Objectives)

  • The science of rest.
  • The spirituality of rest.
  • The gifts of rest.
  • The fruits of rest.

In this webinar you will learn the tools to give yourself permission to embrace rest, set boundaries, and seek sanctuary without any guilt, shame, or fear.

Stress Management: Reduce Vicarious Trauma, Compassion Fatigue and Burnout

Popular based on survey feedback!

In recent years, the importance of self-care practices on career success has increased.

This webinar will explore two questions:

1)What does a healthy identity look like with the incorporation of mind-body-spirit self-care practices that manage stress?

2) What are the ways to implement effective mind-body-spirit practices to achieve and maintain wellness and wholeness?

Objectives:

  • Attendees will be able to identify their stressors and their impact on their lives
  • Attendees will be able to define the difference between vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout.
  • Attendees will learn practical stress relieving tools.
  • Attendees will be able to identify ways to set professional and personal boundaries in order to alleviate stress.

Transform Your Boundaries: Good Boundaries, Free You

Speaker Sarri Gilman

Popular based on survey feedback!

Transform Your Boundaries: Good Boundaries, Free You is centered on the simple notion that your boundaries are there to take care of you, but can’t unless you tune in to, know and strengthen them.

Learn from author, national speaker, and therapist Sarri Gilman, LMFT how to tackle boundaries of all shapes and sizes, from the simplest to the most extreme, by developing the necessary techniques.

Learning Objectives

  • A four-step process to build self awareness, boundary awareness, emotional awareness, and how to deal with the most challenging boundary issues.
  • How to examine cause-effect relationships and relate those to boundary development.
  • How to recognize which boundary skills you need to develop, and how to practice those skills.
  • Practical ways to set boundaries in extremely challenging situations.

Get ready to transform your boundaries and life with Sarri Gilman!

About the Presenter: Sarri Gilman, LMFT

Sarri Gilman, LMFT is a psychotherapist, author, and workshop presenter. She is the author of Transform your Boundaries® (2014) and Naming and Taming Overwhelm for Healthcare and Human Service Providers (2017). Her humanitarian work includes founding two non-profits, and running non profits for 20 years.

In 2014 she retired from running non-profits to focus on teaching about boundaries. Her work with people led her to conclude that we have lots do to clarify our boundaries, improve our self-care, and face the things that are overwhelming.

Sarri continues to work in private practice on Whidbey Island and teach workshops. She lives with her husband and a tiny dog name Romeo. She spends her free time nordic skiing, knitting, swimming, hanging with her grown kids, and jogging on the island roads of her home.

Resilience: 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do

Speaker Amy Morin

Popular based on survey results!

Letting go of what holds you back is the key to reaching your greatest personal and professional potential. Sharing tips from her bestselling book 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, Amy Morin, LCSW will share how to give up the unhealthy shortcuts that rob us of mental strength.

In this webinar, Amy will share a clear plan of how to build resilience and mental muscle that will help you during the greatest challenges you face in work and life!

You will learn:

  • How to stop wasting time feeling sorry for yourself
  • How to stop giving away your power
  • How to embrace change
  • How to stop wasting energy on things you can’t control
  • How to stop worrying about pleasing others
  • How to overcome the fear of taking calculated risks
  • How to stop dwelling on the past
  • How to stop making the same mistakes over and over
  • How to enjoy the success of others
  • How to enjoy alone time
  • How to overcome feelings of entitlement
  • How to foster patience when results don’t come immediately 

This is a life-changing presentation. Don’t miss it!

When it Hits the Fan: Navigating Mistakes, Uncertainty, and High Stress Moments

Speaker Josh Dye

Mistakes. Accidents. Failure. Divorce. Break ups. Bankruptcy. Foreclosure. Eviction. Recovery. Sometimes our life and work just hits the fan. How we navigate mistakes and stressful moments determines our health and well-being professionally, personally and for loved ones around us.

In this session you will learn:

  • Effective strategies for handling the harder times of life.
  • How to make good decisions when stuck between two unpleasant options.
  • How to identify why mistakes happened so that we can learn and grow from them.
  • How to manage stress and develop a healing and recovery plan.

Get ready to turn past mistakes into current strengths in this presentation that will help you prepare for, heal and transform during difficult experiences!

About the Presenter: Josh Dye, MPNA

Josh is the President & Founder of the Convene Training + Resilience Community. Since 2010, attendees in over 500 of his presentations have learned how to harness the courage to lead, create, have tough conversations, maximize precious time, and leverage moments of failure for meaningful growth.

What separates Josh apart from other speakers and trainers is how he combines practical, actionable tips with inspiration and motivation. He doesn’t just tell you what to do, he charts the course for how to do it. Josh authentically speaks from his own experiences, benefiting audiences with lessons from both his successes and gut-wrenching failures.

In 2010 Josh earned a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.