Join world renowned presenters to discover new methods of effective leadership and maintain a culture of wellness in your workplace and beyond.
Presented by Esquimalt Fire Rescue Services, this weekend summit focuses on workplace leadership and wellness.
This two-day workshop features a variety of guest speakers from diverse backgrounds who have real life experience navigating stressful workplaces and in challenging situations.
Sign up for the weekend or for a single day.
Saturday | Sunday | Special two day pricing
Refreshments and lunch are included.
See the program for Saturday October 29
Sunday October 30 9a.m.–5 p.m.
Reimagining Our Workplace in a Post Pandemic World
Many professionals, in a variety of workplaces, are reporting that the cumulative wash out effects of uncertainty, loss of control, immense organizational shifts, and staff changes have helped drive burnout and exhaustion to an all-time high. As organizations are re-emerging in a post-pandemic world many are looking for new ways to reinvigorate their teams, foster resilience, and enhance psychological safety in their workplaces.
In this session, participants will:
- Discover four key principles of psychological safety
- Learn a dynamic framework for enhancing workplace resilience
- Explore practical “boots on the ground” strategies that foster psychological safety and resiliency among team members
- Consider actions to implement key learnings from session
Speaker: Sara Wegwitz - resiliency educator, health and wellbeing facilitator and workplace team coach.
Introduction to Psychological First Aid & Why it’s Important For Us All
When crisis occurs, we often are aware of physical risks and injuries, and have various access to training to assist others in physical distress. Often, crisis also brings forth emotional or psychological distress, in many forms, and the untrained eye may miss or misread the signals. Karla's presentation will introduce the idea of Psychological First Aid, using the model developed by the UN, and explain what to look for, any this is important, and how to respond to those in emotional or psychological distress. The hope is that participants will leave with greater understanding and practical skills.
Speaker: Karla Dolinsky - registered clinical counsellor who works with individuals with complex trauma, critical incident trauma, as well as loss/grief/relationship challenges
Connect to Protect
From being a First Responder to Counselling First Responders: Tips and tools for resilience and healing I learned along the way.
In this presentation Jill will relay the latest research in regard to trauma and first responders including the impact of organizational and operational stress and the challenges with work life balance. Jill will share her journey through policing as well as life on the other side as a retired police officer who works full time in private practice counselling First Responders. She will explain how a healthy connection to self and others is the “secret sauce” of wellness.
Speaker: Jill Parker - former Abbotsford Police Officer and Crisis Clinician in hospital and private practice counsellor and social worker
Responding to Traumatic Incidents in the Workplace
This interactive session will seek discussion with the audience for examples of common responses of employees; cognitively, physiologically, behaviourally. Learn:
- tools for organizations to have something/steps in place for the time period right after an incident.
- traumatic incident definitions/examples: (sudden death, cardiac, MVA, loss of child/pregnancy, suicide, medical diagnosis, workplace accident, etc.)
- how organizational leaders can address a traumatic incident
- psychological first aid post-incident model/peer support check ins/follow ups
Speaker: Isabell Ruediger - a registered counsellor and former firefighter/first responder specializing in responding to traumatic incidents in the workplace.
The Usual Suspects—Dealing with Difficult Personalities
We all know them: the complainer, the sniper, the passive-aggressive, the outright aggressive, the negativist. Navigating the minefield of behaviours in our personal and professional lives can be both stressful and exhausting. Why spin your wheels any longer? Learn how to deal effectively with challenging personality types through this strategy-based presentation.
Understand the motivations of various challenging temperaments. Recognize your own style of relating. Learn how to replace counter-productive tension with effective communication and positive outcomes. It’s true - people sometimes suck. But you don’t have to.
Speaker: Julie-Anne Richards - Registered Clinical Counselor, private practitioner, business coach and speaker. The Usual Suspects - Dealing with Difficulty Personalities
The Impact of Organizational Trauma: How to Support Employee Mental Wellness
Matt Johnson is a leading expert workplace trauma and has responds as clinical counsellor to workplaces that have had a significant event with the loss of an employee or a traumatic death within the organization.
Matt works alongside the employees and the employer guiding them through the process of recovery after a traumatic incident.
Matt has worked with several organization and first responder agencies, he understands Work safe legislation and provides support when there has been significant organizational trauma.
Speaker: Matt Johnston - leading expert in workplace trauma, fulltime firefighter, and registered clinical counsellor.
Located in the stunning Esquimalt Gorge Pavilion, participants will be able to learn valuable skills to implement in both their workplace and daily life.
Register:
Saturday
Sunday
Special two day pricing
