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• Goal of Training: Understand neuroscience and health impacts of (unprecedented) stress.  

• What You'll Learn: How stress affects the body and mind. Participants will reflect on their "roots" of self-care. 

• Action: Participants will review science-backed self-care solutions and self-prescribe their own.

• Goal of Training: Cultivate a healthy forest -- that is, a culture of team-care that supports everyone at work.

• What You'll Learn: How to assess your team's wellness needs and plan a post-pandemic culture of retention. Participants and trainers will generate ideas on activities, budgeting, and planning.

• Action: Idea-sharing and starting to customize a wellness plan. 

• Goal of Training: Learn how to bolster the human immune system--cheaply!

• What You'll Learn: 12 science-backed  solutions for naturally boosting your resistance to harmful virus and bacteria. 

• Action: Discuss practices for better immunity, so that individuals and teams make healthier choices .

• Goal of Training: Convince you that breathing is the most effective tool for wellness. Go ahead -- right now -- 

TAKE A DEEP BREATH

• What You'll Learn: Breathing is the language of the nervous system,  and it's a tool for mindful attention. 

• Action: This training uses 13 breathing cards to learn and practice the benefits of mindfulness.

• Goal of Training: Understand your sources of (non-work) stress and learn ways to reframe these challenges to build personal resilience. 

• What You'll Learn:  Tools to manage chronic stress, especially in nonprofits and schools. Participants will complete a "Stressor & Resilience Scorecard," our  tool which measures the impact of  identity and personal circumstances.

• Action: practice re-framing, a key strategy for personal resilience.

• Goal of Training: Encourage 5-minute brain boosts throughout the day.  

• What You'll Learn: Three recommendations: challenge your neural networks, choose a mindfulness practice (including music), and recall playful memories from childhood.

• Action: This session comes with Brain Boost BINGO cards for all participants (in English, Spanish, or both).

According to a McKinsey analysis of a Johns Hopkins study, “Workplace stressors such as long hours, economic insecurity, work–family conflict, and high job demands coupled with low job control are as harmful to health as secondhand smoke.” 

Talking about mental health with your boss is uncomfortable. 

 So, mental health tends to be "outsourced" and consulting firms like Deloitte work to prove that investment in mental health has a "500% return on investment" (demonstrated by reduced sick time and employee turnover, as well as increased productivity).  

But are staff using these benefits?  Even if you have an EAP program and decent coverage for therapy in your healthcare, studies showmost of your employees  aren’t taking proper advantage of it. 

And anyway, that's not the "everyday"  (free!) mental health benefit of stronger connections at work. 

Burnout is a huge factor in people leaving nonprofit and teaching jobs. In fact, 43% of teachers who left before scheduled retirement did so due to stress — nearly double the number who left due to pay.

Yet, as Gallup proves again and again, having a best friend at work is a HUGE  factor in job success, job satisfaction, and retention. This is the best reason to  invest in friendships at work.

A pre-pandemic study showed that nearly one in five nonprofit employees leaves every year, yet only 13% of nonprofit leaders recognize it as a top challenge. 

This matches another pre-pandemic study showing nearly ⅓ of nonprofit employees, and over 50% of employees under 30, planning to leave within two years.

Wellness at work is a growing industry -- after all, we spend 1/3 of our lives at work and since we are not physically or mentally "well" we have to address some of these skills and solutions "at the office."  Especially since many of our stressors come from the work/team itself.

Nearly every client asks us to come back and do more. Hopefully Nonprofit Wellness can support your staff in some way.