This 8 week Resilience Course will help you to reduce professional burnout and build on your innate resilience.

Dr. Angela Kurzyna has facilitating burnout prevention and resilience training groups for nurses and medical residents in major hospitals in the area for the last five years. This program is evidence-based and has shown to be effective in reducing burnout and perceived professional stress.

You will learn to:

• Be more aware of the signs and symptoms of professional burnout
• Use relaxation, mindfulness and self regulation strategies to counteract stress and emotional reactivity
• Communicate more skillfully with coworkers and those whom you may find difficult
• Use cognitive and affective strategies to build resilience
• Develop a sustainable self care plan so that your job of caring for others can include caring for yourself

Course Outline:

1. Recognizing burnout and discovering resilience
2. Restoring meaning
3. Learning to relax and self-regulate
4. Mindfulness
5. Improving communication
6. The resilient mind cognitive strategies to build resilience
7. The resilient heart affective strategies to build resilience
8. Developing my personal self care plan.

Outcomes:

• Significantly reduced levels of emotional exhaustion, a key factor in burnout as measured by the Maslach Burnout Scale.
• Significant reduction in perceived stress as measured by the Perceived Stress Scale
• Improved self care and health behaviors.

What people are saying: 

“My attitude is greatly improved.”

 “Helped me both professionally and personally. Helped me to stop and breathe when getting stressed.”. 

“The program taught me to be more self-aware. I never paid attention to managing my own stress … The program taught me to open up and discuss what is going on… and I realized that I am not alone.”

 “I learned ways of caring for difficult patients and tips to manage stressful situations.”

 “I loved the program and would take it again.”

Contact us today to learn more.