Emotional Intelligence: What It Is & How to Enhance It
Christina Robillard provides a foundational overview of emotional intelligence, including what it is, the many ways it shows up in our lives (both at work and at home), and why it is so important.
A Brief Journey Into Vicarious Trauma
Learn how to build resilience, foster a supportive work environment, and maintain mental well-being for yourself and your team.
Battling Burnout: Addressing Compassion Fatigue in the Workplace
Learn how to build resilience, foster a supportive work environment, and maintain mental well-being for yourself and your team.
Navigating Disability With Accessibility
Drawing on his lived experience as a person with a disability who works from home and who uses caregiving services, Andrew Gurza will explore how we can make caregiving spaces accessible for clients and consumers alike.
Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion as a Part of Caring
Find out how Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) affect caregiving work. Share experiences and learn how our identities affect caregivers’ and patients’ experiences in healthcare settings.
Understanding & Coping With Stress
Drawing from her extensive experience in healthcare, Sosa will share personal anecdotes and practical tips to help you thrive in your role.
Neurodiversity: Thriving in the Workplace Jungle
Let’s embark on a comprehensive exploration of the diverse neurotypes within your workplace ecosystem!
Using Inclusive Language to Reduce Stigma
Language is a powerful tool! When used positively, it can reduce stigma, support our mental wellness, and provide an environment of support and inclusion.
Heart Based Approach™ Caring
A Heart Based Approach is a proactive mental health tool that utilizes the science of positive psychology and emotional intelligence to meet people where they are and journey with them to feeling aliveness.
Fostering Safe, Healthy, & Inclusive Workplaces
Explore the key elements of a safe and respectful workplace culture and discuss practical strategies for fostering an environment in which employees are valued and heard.
Tools for Managing Stress and Burnout
In this introductory workshop, Jennifer Aberman will help you learn how to manage stress and prevent burnout using evidence-based mindfulness practices.
How to Recognize & Manage Unconscious Bias
All of us carry unconscious bias in us, and this alone isn’t necessarily a bad thing. However, recognizing and working to address it is critical to ensure equity for all groups.
Managing Chronic Pain
In this webinar, we’ll explore the nature and profound impact of chronic pain in the workplace. We’ll also analyze factors contributing to chronic pain and share evidence-based, practical strategies specifically tailored for caregivers.
Managing Trauma and Stress
Learn about the ways trauma and stress can impact healthcare professionals, and practice helpful coping strategies in this one-hour discussion about trauma and healthcare.
Managing Conflict Safely & Respectfully
This one-hour webinar is designed to provide participants with key strategies and tools for managing and resolving interpersonal and work-related conflicts in a safe and respectful manner.
There’s More to You Than You Can See
In this eye-opening presentation, Joe Roberts shares the critical role family and community support played in helping him overcome a lifelong struggle with substance use disorder and mental illness.
Neurodiversity In The Workplace
We are all complex individuals, and supporting neurodiversity should be in conjunction with supporting the needs of everyone on the team.
Transforming Emotions Workshop
Research on effective emotional transition shows that individuals, businesses, and organizations need the right tools to guide themselves and others through the normal emotional response to stress, change, and challenge
Irregular Income Management
In this interactive one-hour webinar, we will explore how to manage irregular income and budget it to avoid the cost of financial stress.
Energy Health Management
Optimal health & performance aren’t just about hard work and accountability; they’re also about managing the normal limits of output. Using the latest research from Dr. Sean Richardson and his own experience, Joe shows participants how to develop discipline around recovery and build resilient mindsets that boost productivity and stress-proof their lives.
JAN 23 – Making Cents Of Money: Budgeting 101
Nobody was born knowing how to manage money and knowing how to avoid the cost of financial stress. Many parents didn’t discuss money at home, and money management wasn’t taught in school. Learning how to manage money the hard way is, well, hard.
JAN 17 – What is Childhood Pain and How to Heal From it as Parents
Childhood pain can take many forms and come in varying degrees. Examples include neglect, abuse, parentification, growing up with controlling or judgmental parents, not feeling heard, not feeling loved or cared for, being punished, or reprimanded, not feeling safe, or perhaps parents having too high expectations of you.
The Value of Appreciation and Recognition in the Workplace
The quality of our work life is improved when we feel genuinely recognized and appreciated for our work. In this interactive, reflective webinar, participants will be invited to reflect on how they have received appreciation in the workplace.
What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say
This webinar will provide you with a strategy for making it easier to participate in the
difficult conversations and respond to the difficult questions that often arise in healthcare
settings. Exlporing the VERS method (VERS: validate, explore respond and share)
Mental Health and Wellness
Creating a Space to be Heard: How Care to Speak Can Help
Learn about the current wellness of today’s force in the healthcare sector from the perspective of Care to Speak. Our speakers will guide us on identifying burn-out and vicarious traumatization red flags and recommendations to support better and understand our teams.
De-escalation Strategies for Healthcare
Overworked and stressed already, healthcare workers often find themselves on the receiving end of the upset that patients and families are experiencing. In this interactive, reflective webinar, participants will learn practical strategies to help them de-escalate situations in which patients and family members are in distress. Opportunities to discuss and troubleshoot scenarios will be included, allowing participants to apply the skills discussed in this training to real-life situations.
Stress Management
During this 1-hour webinar, which originally aired on April 24, 2023, participants will learn more about acute and chronic stress and explore effective stress management strategies, especially for caregivers. Stress management is an important aspect of overall mental health, burnout prevention and resilience for professionals who make a difference with their caring.
Principles of Psychological First Aid
This webinar provides an overview of the principles of psychological first aid, including what collective care means and how you can help others responsibly.
Healthy Sleep
This webinar will help participants: Understand why healthy sleep matters and how it impacts overall health and performance. Examine barriers to sleep (work, life demands, age and other factors). Explore circadian rhythms (how they can address shift work and other factors) to optimize sleep
How Leaders Can Support Mental Well-being and Performance Through Disruption
Provided by Wellness Works Canada, this webinar teaches how to integrate psychological support and mental health into existing workplace mechanisms.
Ask for Suppot
A free webinar presented by Margaret Tebbutt of the Canadian Mental Health Association.
Boundaries in Balance
A free webinar presented by Lucette Wesley of the Canadian Mental Health Association.
Cooking for Well-Being
Magaret Tebbutt of the Canadian Mental Health Association presents this concise webinar on the mental health benefits of cooking.
Self-Compassion Practice
Practice self-compassion and cultivate a greater sense of well-being. Research has demonstrated that higher levels of self-compassion are associated with increased happiness and connectedness, as well as decreased anxiety, depression, rumination and fear of failure. Featuring Alejandra Zibes, Registered Clinical Counsellor and Trauma and Sensitive Yoga Practitioner and Vicky Kenny, Yoga Instructor specializing in Trauma Sensitive, Nidra and Restorative Yoga.
Emotional Intelligence at Work
Learn the five attributes of Emotional Intelligence to help you deal with difficult interactions with peers, staff and clients.
Creating and Maintaining Healthy Boundaries
This presentation outlines important interpersonal and professional boundaries for front-line staff, maintaining healthy boundaries and the interaction between boundaries, self-care, and resilience.
Sick and tired: A conversation about stress and fatigue
In a world ruled by pandemics, staff shortages, and public demands, it’s not unusual to feel like you’re barely hanging on, especially given the nature of caregiving. This unending loop between stress and fatigue is not easy to jump off. This session will address the relationship between stress and fatigue and what you can do to help maintain your health, relationships, and sanity!
Pandemic Response
Enhancing Psychological Health, Wellness and Resilience in the Era of COVID-19
In this webinar, Dr. Joti Samra, registered psychologist, discusses skills and strategies to help individuals improve their psychological health, resiliency and wellness, whether in the context of at home or in the workplace.
Supporting the Mental Health of Staff During COVID-19: Strategies being used in Long-Term Care
Learn how long-term care organizations are supporting their staff’s mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Supporting the Mental Health of Staff During COVID-19: Strategies being used in Home Care
Learn how home care organizations are supporting their staff’s mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pain BC: Coping With Pain and Anxiety During COVID-19
The current COVID-19 health crisis can serve as an additional source of anxiety for people who live with chronic pain. When anxiety is left unmanaged, it can interfere with an individual’s health, well-being and ability to function in daily life.
In this webinar recording, psychologist Dr. Angie Ji discusses the relationship between anxiety and pain and shares several coping strategies people in pain can utilize to manage anxiety, and in turn pain, during this time of uncertainty. This webinar is open to both people with lived experience of pain and health care providers interested in learning more about coping strategies to share with clients.
Pain BC aims to enhance the well-being of all people living with pain through empowerment, care, education and innovation
