This learning series will be facilitated by Deb Center, Chief Program Officer at The Center in collaboration with an expert presenter and panelist at each session.
Each session will provide different tools to help participants walk away with a toolbox of strategies to empower their journey and support them as they begin to replant themselves firmly while continuing to have the agility needed to navigate their boat through the next wave of the storm.
Session 1: February 9, 2022 Resiliency: Rowing Against the Wind
Expert Speaker: Deb Center, PhD, MSN, RN, CNS, CTA-CC, Chief Program Officer
This session offers an awareness of how participants react to stressful situations, such as COVID-19, and explore contributing factors that affect personal resilience. Different tools will be explored to use in personal resilience training that will contribute to personal growth and overall well-being.
Learning objectives:
- Verbalize contributing factors that affect resilience.
- Identify steps to build self resilience.
Session 2: February 16, 2022 Compassion Fatigue: Finding Heart in a Storm
Expert Speaker: Carmen Luttrell, MSN, RN, Project Director
Compassion fatigue has resurfaced during the pandemic. Compassion fatigue is a term often linked to front-line caregivers that if not addressed, can lead to burnout. Together we will explore its impact in order to identify strategies to rediscover and practice compassion satisfaction.
Session learning objectives:
- Understand compassion fatigue and how it differs from burnout.
- Identify tools to find your way back to compassion satisfaction.
Session 3: February 23, 2022 Growth Mindset: Your Navigation Through the Unknown
Expert Speaker: Tiffany Chohfi, MSN, RN, CNE Clinical Scholar, Co-active Coach, Project Director
In times of crisis, having a growth mindset can help navigate us through turbulent waters. Everyone experiences crisis in their own way. Intentional reflection on our mindset acts as an anchor when the water feels like it may capsize your boat. Growth mindset is a powerful tool that we will teach you that takes practice, courage and vulnerability. Join this session to explore how you can use a growth mindset as your compass of light.
Learning objectives:
- Understand the difference between growth-mindset and fixed-mindset.
- Identify and reflect on where your mindset tends to live.
- Identify tools and resources to help you live in the mindset that serves you best.
Session 4: March 2, 2022 Moral Distress Calming the Waters: Resetting Your Course
Expert Speaker: Marianne Horner, MS, RN, CNM, Project Director
This session will examine moral distress and determine if assuming that perspective serves us personally and professionally. Together we will discuss what contingency plans actually look like and how they are implemented. You will identify strategies to examine your current perspective to determine whether or not it is serving you or if some shift may serve you better.
Learning objectives:
- Explore the concepts of moral distress.
- Identify differences between goals with contingency plans and normal patient care functioning.
- Explore strategies to shift perspective from your own.
Session 5: March 9, 2022 Good Grief: Honoring Grief and Loss
Expert Speakers: Briana Kohlbrenner, MSW, LSW & Mauritha Hughes, MS Ed, BSN
Recognizing that in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis we all very likely are experiencing some form of loss that can impact our daily interactions and behaviors. Grief is a normal process that is expressed and experienced differently by everyone. How do you acknowledge grief and loss? How do you support others that are grieving during these unprecedented times? How do we move forward together?
Learning objectives:
- Acknowledge and honor the grief and loss associated with COVID-19.
- Discuss the manifestations of grief and loss during a pandemic.
- Identify stages, emotions, and expressions of grief.
- Determine strategies to acknowledge and move forward with grief personally and collectively.
Session 6: March 16, 2022 Putting on Your Life Vest: Self-care to Keep You Afloat
Expert Speaker: Susan Moyer, RN, MS, CNSPH, Co-active Coach, senior Project Director
All the sessions in this series have been working towards self-care. Self-care is the most important strategy for developing resiliency, coping during times of uncertainty and resetting our compass. The group will discuss the value of self-care and help each other develop a care-plan for ensuring that life vests are fully inflated to take us from survival to thriving in times of rapid change.
Learning objectives:
- Identify the four key dimensions of self-care.
- Recognize the impact of your self-care on others
- Identify three strategies for integrating self-care into daily routine.
Program Schedule
There are 6 sessions – one per week beginning in February from 7:30-8:30 am MT.
To ensure a high level of engagement and interactivity, learning sessions will have no more than 25 participants. Questions about this program should be directed to Deb@ColoradoNursingCenter.org.
Contact me when registration opens for the Ripple Effect.