Interactive Presentations
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What is the cost of stress on your organization?
Barbara Rubel works with conference organizers to deliver keynote speeches and to run half-day and full-day workshops and training.
Our Most Requested Keynotes
Self-Care for the Practitioner: Preventing Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
Building Resiliency in the Workplace: Strategies for Retaining Employees
The FABULOUS Principle©: 8 Keys to Happiness at Work and Play
Workshops and Trainings Based on Barbara's Books
Palette of Grief®: A Creative Way to Look at How You Cope with Stress
But I Didn't Say Goodbye: Supporting Bereaved Families After a Suicide or Homicide
Death, Dying, and Bereavement: Providing Compassion During a Time of Need
Thin Threads: Weaving Meaningful Stories into Resilient Growth Experiences
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SPEAKING
Barbara Rubel is known
for her high energy and humorous teaching style.
Be educated and enlightened at your upcoming event.
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Just a Few of Our Programs . . .
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Self-Care for the Practitioner: Preventing Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
This fun presentation has been developed to provide professionals with techniques to deal with their personal and professional stress. You will learn the significance of personal growth and building resiliency. Realize how creative ideas and cognitive flexibility helps you to actively problem solve to manage your stress while helping others. Be energized and optimistic while taking the time to celebrate your important role. Attendees will rave about the toys and fun giveaways as they learn effective ways to prevent burnout and compassion fatigue.
Objectives:
1. Identify stressors that throw you off balance
2. Recognize which professionals are at the highest risk for compassion fatigue
3. Estimate your level of compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue
4. List three changes that occur in one's worldview when vicariously traumatized
5. Evaluate resilient coping strategies to avoid burnout and compassion fatigue
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Workplace Wellness: Stress and Job Burnout
This presentation is intended to show you the impact of stress and burnout in the workplace. Have you experienced reduced achievement? Take a Burnout Self-Assessment and measure your level of burnout. By the end of the program you will recognize the 6 top things to know about life stress.
Objectives:
1. Recognize how stress is a predictor of reductions in well being
2. Identify how distressful life events in the environment place excessive demands on employees
3. Define job burnout
4. Describe the causes of burnout
5. Evaluate your level of burnout
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Strengthening Community Resilience: A Public Health Approach
Abstract:
Are you ready to provide support in a public-health emergency? This training will provide evidenced-based interventions to assist those who have experienced a public health emergency. Identify the unique nature of psychosocial consequences and the mental health implications, whether the emergency was anticipated, sudden, violent, or inflicted. The training will provide concrete and usable techniques for strengthening community resilience by improved preparedness and planning response. The program will also incorporate self-care strategies for those who provide this assistance to prevent compassion fatigue and enable them to carry on their work.
Module 1: When Tragedy Strikes: Types of Public Health Emergencies and Their Impact
Objectives:
1. Identify types of public health emergencies (i.e., terrorism, mass casualty incidents, isolated disease outbreaks, natural and unnatural small scale disasters, and community suicides)
2. Describe the impact of crisis, trauma, stress, and traumatic grief on communities
3. Describe the causes and effects of psychological trauma after a public health emergency
Module 2: Providing Support During Public Health Emergencies
Objectives:
1. Identify strategies that promote post traumatic growth following a public health emergency
3. Identify strength-based resources and programs
Module 3: Building Resilience in Helpers Ultimatley Builds Resilient Communities
Objectives:
1. Identify symptoms of burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma in helpers
2. Describe a code of behavior for helpers
3. Describe effective self-care strategies to deal with stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue
4. Create an action plan that focuses on strengthening one’s own resilience while providing support in a public health emergency
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How to Create and Facilitate a Bereavement Support Group
This presentation is based on Barbara Rubel's upcoming book, Facilitating Bereavement Support Groups. Participants will learn ways to plan, design, and structure groups. Learn the role of bereavement support group facilitators while identifying support group facilitator values and ethics. Explore ways to offer compassionate support to the bereaved.
Objectives:
1. Describe your level of readiness to be a bereavement support group facilitator
2. Evaluate your cultural diversity skillls
3. Review a code of ethics for bereavement support group facilitators
4. Arrange your group structure from the welcoming statement to the formal closing
5. Identify barriers and personality types that may impact group effectiveness
6. Balance your methods and activities to meet the learning needs of everyone in the group
7. Master the communication skills needed to be an effective bereavement support group facilitator
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But I Didn't Say Goodbye: Providing Support After a Suicide or Homicide
Are you ready to provide support to those whose lives have been shattered after a suicide or homicide? This must attend program will help you identify the effects of sudden violent death. Through practical information and engaging activities, you will identify specific strategies and tools to effectively help bereaved individuals cope with mouning. Discuss common responses after sudden violent deaths, risks for longer lasting reactions, PTSD, complicated bereavement, and prolonged grief disorder. Review the significance of meaning making, post traumatic growth and resilience when supporting those bereaved by suicide and survivors of homicide victims.
Objectives:
1. Review the determinants that influence the way individuals react after a suicide or homicide
2. Identify factors that makes suicide and homicide bereavement complicated
3. Identify prolonged grief disorder
4. Review the Palette of Grief® and its application in helping to understand grief reactions
5. Demonstrate an awareness of theoretical models related to the process of mourning
6. Identify creative expressive techniques and rituals that enhance meaning making
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WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATIONS: Skilled nursing, assisted living, residential care
- VICTIM ASSISTANCE AGENCIES: Sexual assault programs, domestic violence programs, child advocacy programs, at-risk youth programs
- CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: Law enforcement, victim advocates, prosecutors, judicial employees, probation officers, corrections personnel
- MEDICAL FIELD: Emergency medicine, palliative care, nurses, pain medicine, psychiatry
- ALLIED PROFESSIONALS: Human services, social workers, psychologists, school counselors, suicidologists, volunteers active in disasters, citizens of culturally and geographically isolated communities
- DEATH AND DYING FIELD: Bereavement counselors, hospice professionals, funeral directors, crisis intervention specialists, traumatologists, gerontologists, faith based
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