Personal Resilience for Professional Competence: Understanding grief, loss and set back in everyday life

Course Code
50117542

Course has already taken place

Provider
OD&PL

Tutor(s):
Nicola Neath

Suitability
All staff.

If this date is full, then please register on our waiting list by
emailing your details to peopledev@leeds.ac.uk.

Date(s)
Thursday, October 29, 2015, 14:00 to 16:00

Max Places:
15

Description
Pre-requisites: None

Pre-work requirements: None

Overall aim of course:
The workshop aims to provide an opportunity for participants to consider
what might help them manage grief, loss and set back in everyday life.

Intended outcomes and benefits from attending:
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
1. Have learned about reactions to grief, loss and set back.
2. Have explored a variety of processes or rituals that help us say
goodbye or let go.
3. Be introduced to the workable ranges of grief, loss or set back.
4. Have an opportunity to think about what they might wish to do
individually to support themselves through these experiences.

Indicative content: what the session will cover:
Participants will be introduced to models that can help us become self-
aware about what happens when we experience grief, loss or personal or
professional setbacks and how our bodies and perceptions may be
affected. You will be encouraged to recognise your own processes for
loss and saying goodbye in these professional or personal settings. An
opportunity to reflect upon a wide range of grief, loss and set back
experiences and consider how a compassionate approach can help and
support our wellbeing at these times.

Learning and teaching methods: An interactive workshop.

Tutor: Nicola Neath; University of Leeds Staff Counsellor – Nicola is
also an MBACP Accredited Psychotherapist.

Related courses:
Resilience is our ability to manage and restore balance and performance.
Resilience skills help us through times of change and uncertainty,
following adversity, set-backs and times when things are, or were, too
much. These workshops support self-development. They are opportunities
to gain ideas and tools that can have a positive effect on you, your
work and your impact with others.

Positive models and individual strategies are covered to resource work,
life and organisational change, maintain creativity and support positive
relationships with others, and prepare for the future. The workshops
dovetail together and can be done in any order. They can also be taken
individually by participants who may have identified specific areas
where they would benefit from some guidance.

• Values and direction – knowing what matters personally and
professionally
• Working with stress and emotion
• Mindfulness and attention skills to steady and focus your mind
• Switching off – relaxation and sleep
• Active approaches to worry, meeting things head on
• Working with change and uncertainty
• Understanding and managing anxiety and panic
• Knowing your head and heart for effective decision making
• Developing assertiveness and working with confidence
• Working with habitual thinking patterns – thoughts are not facts
• Positive skills for wellbeing at work

Attendance at other workshops in the series may be beneficial.