Building a Resilient Workforce: Embed Brain Science

Organizations that Have an Enterprise Engagement Package and/or Achieved COA Accreditation:

• $50 per session

Other Organizations:

• $65 per session
• $235 for the entire series (use discount BUNDLE25 – series must be purchased in one transaction to obtain the discount)

The human services field has made strides in raising awareness around the urgency of building healthy brains in new babies and young children. Early childhood resilience strategies such as “serve and return” are now commonly built into trainings and practice. However, the field has been slow to translate emerging brain science into learnings and practices with adults and our workforce.

To be well at work, especially in complex and stressful settings, we need to understand basic brain concepts and embrace practices and behaviors that support optimal brain functioning.  Stress, distress, and trauma interrupt our ability to access our “thinking brain” and, without intervention, keep us in our survival or lower brain, where we struggle to think, problem solve, focus, or manage conflict.

Regulation, a basic strategy for calming our lower brain, is integral to a health workforce. Practicing brain-based interventions, such as Dr. Bruce Perry’s sequence of engagement – regulate, relate, reason (3 Rs), helps us achieve better outcomes. Our staff will experience increased trust, stronger relationships, candid conversations, and more accountability.

This webinar, the first session in the Workforce Well-Being and Resilience learning series, focuses on the importance of embracing brain science awareness in our work settings. We explore the neurobiology of stress, distress and trauma, the arousal continuum, and strategies for practicing daily regulation activities at work and building a brain friendly culture that leads to resilience and success.

About the Webinar Series

As workforce challenges continue to hinder human services organizations, leaders are searching for concrete action steps to support staff who are emotionally and physically exhausted. Though staff often enter the field excited to make a difference, it can be difficult to keep them connected to the vision and mission of the organization.

This four-part webinar series will delve into core strategies and tactics for supporting staff, such as increasing accountability, managing conflict, nurturing relationships, embracing equity, and achieving excellence. Sessions in this series:

• Embed Brain Science: Feb. 21 from 2-3 p.m. ET
• Foster Candidness through Psychological Safety: March 21 from 2-3 p.m. ET
• Create Culture around Shared Values: April 27 from 2-3 p.m. ET
• Integrate Connection and Community: May 16 from 2-3 p.m. ET

Takeaways

• Brain science concepts and strategies to increase resilience in the workplace
• State dependent functioning and the arousal continuum, and their application to daily work
• Practical tools and strategies for increasing regulation
• Strategies for building a brain friendly culture that enhances our optimal functioning at work

Who Should Participate

• Executive and senior leaders
• Middle managers
• Human resource staff
• Staff with responsibility for EDI

Individuals who are champions for strengthening the workforce culture, regardless of their title, will benefit. This guidance is relevant for all workforces across the human services ecosystem, including at the community, systems, government, and policy levels.