Building Mental ‘Armour’ in the Workplace

Overview

If your job entails you working in an emotionally difficult role, whereby you are regularly exposed to the trauma, victims or violence of others, this can be very challenging and although you may not be directly involved, the repeated and prolonged exposure may cause a negative emotional reaction and a change in your world-view or you may become cynical or fearful.

These work-related reactions can occur from experiences such as listening to individual testimonies recounting their victimisation, looking at videos of exploitation, reviewing case files, hearing about the aftermath of violence resulting in injury or death, and other traumatic events.

This workshop is designed to help participants mitigate the risks particularly of suffering from ‘vicarious trauma’ by understanding what the risk is, how to recognise it within yourself, how to safeguard yourself and by teaching some of the techniques that you can employ in your daily work routine.

Designed for

This workshop is designed for anyone who wants to safeguard their mental wellbeing.

How will this help me?

The training is a step towards helping to –

• • Prepare yourself to deal with distressing material without warning
  • Generate emotional distance between yourself and the material
  • Build resilience and improve your wellbeing
  • Use techniques in order to ‘leave work at work’

Objectives

At the end of the course you will:

• Understand what makes an effective contract manager
• Understand legal terminology and its commercial implications
• Be able to reduce the chances of contract pitfalls dramatically
• Know how to conduct a thorough risk analysis of contracts
• Understand the legal consequences of their own actions
• Be able to negotiate more effectively
• Recognise the contribution that good contract administration can deliver
• Minimise contractual risk throughout the contract
• Manage change during the contract from a risk and legal perspective

Content

• Social Emotional Intelligence
• Diffused Responsibility – ‘Why didn’t anyone intervene?’
• Behaviours, learnt and valued
• I-You Moments – Making connections through empathy
• Entering ‘models’ of reality – Avoiding attachments to your reality

• Leaving ‘work at work’ and avoiding burnout
• Vicarious Trauma – The Body Keeps the Score
• Practical steps to ‘leave it at work’
• Changing States with Anchors
• Vagus Nerve techniques

• Building Resilience
• 3Ps to mental resilience – Personal, Permanent and Pervasive
• Dealing with dark thoughts