Worker Wellness in Complicated Times for Managers and Directors

Grief, Self-Care, and Collective Care

Premium Workshop Series

This workshop series will provide an orientation to the range of debriefing, self-care, and collective care strategies to help managers and supervisors identify and respond to the impact of ongoing loss events. Integrating practical supports for grief and loss events can help sustain a healthy workplace, spirited team, and resilient workers.

Using a combination of presentation, reflective activities, and group interaction, this learning opportunity will provide managers with strategies for processing grief and loss in these key areas:

a) Support for bereaved workers as individuals.
b) Support for a team when death or loss occurs as part of the work.
c) Support for the organization when there are significant changes in the workplace—not necessarily related to death, but generating a loss/stress response.
d) Support for the team when faced with unpredictable loss events such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Learning Objectives

• To deepen awareness of the impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing opioid overdose epidemic, alongside other current stressors and challenges in this work.
• To come away with a theoretical framework for understanding how people respond to grief and loss and the diversity within those responses.
• To review current coping strategies and strategies of resilience that emerge when people are faced with ongoing crisis and loss events.
• To deepen our understanding of the role of managers in caring for staff, volunteers, and community members experiencing stigmatized losses in both personal and professional arenas.
• To begin an exploration of best practices and tools to respond effectively to loss, including 3 distinct Debriefing Practices.
• To outline a model for a Low Impact Debriefing practice.
• To offer an opportunity for managers to “say a good goodbye” to individuals they’ve lost as part of this work.

FAQs

Who should attend this workshop series?
This workshop series is designed for helping professionals (which we define as anyone in a position of interacting with people in providing a service), specifically for managers, supervisors, and directors.

How many people can attend?
Registration for this workshop series has been capped at 35 participants.

What is a premium workshop series?
This refers to a specialty, by-demand workshop series presented by a facilitator on a topic outside of QoC’s area of expertise.

Do I need to attend all of the sessions?
Ideally, you will be able to attend all of the sessions, but you must be able to attend at least three out of the four. Attendees will receive certificates of attendance for participating in a minimum of 3/4 sessions.

Will these sessions be recorded?
No. These sessions will not be recorded in order to maintain the privacy of participants. The session slides, however, will be sent out.

What is your refund policy?
We can offer refunds up to seven days before the first session. Eventbrite’s fee is nonrefundable. After this period, we can accept substitutions. Your satisfaction is guaranteed.

Who can I contact with further questions?
If you have an accessibility request or any other questions, please contact the QoC Project Lead at or 705-927-3448.

The cost of this workshop series has been subsidized through a partnership with the Peterborough Drug Strategy and its members. Bursaries are available upon request.