Understanding Burnout

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• Stress leading to overwhelming exhaustion
• Cynicism and detachment
• Negative feelings: sense of ineffectiveness and lack of accomplishment
• Burnout is seen as an organizational issue, not personal issue.
• It’s important to decrease shame and silence around burnout.

World Health Organization, 2019

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Key Elements to a Positive Work Experience

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1. Values: Is this work still meaningful? Is there a value conflict?
2. Community: Workplace community, trust, communication
3. Individual Control: Is there space to innovate?
4. Reward: Feeling recognized; Positive feedback
5. Fairness: Who gets what opportunity? Promotions? How people are treated?
6. Workload: Too many demands with little resources; What can we change? Can we change how we do the work?

Maslach, 2020

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Shifting our Perspective

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• Toxic Productivity is an obsessive need to always be productive, regardless of the cost to your health, relationships, and life.
• Grind Culture refers to the false belief that to be considered valuable or worthy in our society, one must always be productive.
• Tricia Hersey shares small, concrete ways to bring rest into our own lives – especially when rest seems impossible.

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Archer, 2022

Hersey, 2022

Neal, Ph.D., 2022

Price,PhD., 2020

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Ideas for Community Care

• Create a Community Care Committee.
• Check-in with yourselves and each other.
• On a scale from 1-10 how was your stress this day or week?
• Schedule fun, joy, and relaxation into your day or weekend at the same intensity to create balance.
• Hold monthly wellness events
• Begin a community practice of breathing (e.g., Pace, Diaphragmatic Breath).
• Establish a collective practice of mindfulness.
• Create your own community of support that reflects what is most important to you or what brings you joy.
• Practice self-compassion and enhance Focus and Sleep.
• Manage your Anxiety (Thought Defusion)

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Ideas for Community Care

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Mindfulness: Three Core Practices

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1. Integrate a four minute practice (pause).
2. Pause throughout the day to practice mindfulness when feeling overwhelmed or a need to enhance your focus.
1. Post mindfulness-themed flyers around your workspace as a reminder.
3. Create a voluntary weekly drop-in 30-minute session for journaling, partner exercises, and sharing of experiences.

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Sraganza, 2021

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Reimagine Rest: Journaling Exercise

By: Tricia Hersey

1. What do I feel called to do?
2. How can I create space for me and my community to heal?
1. What needs healing in me?
3. Can the idea of unplugging and resting for a whole month be reimagined by creating smaller moments daily or weekly?
4. What does intentional rest and care look like to you?
• Sketch and map out a visual.
5. How is your heart?
6. Who are you being?
7. What are you holding?
8. What story are you telling yourself?
• What is a more liberating story you can tell?
9. How can you create rest in this moment?
10. Are you ready to change?

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