Working with Stress and Burnout: Supporting Your Employees to Do Their Best Work

When it comes to stress, this can be both good and bad and sometimes we are unable to make this vital distinction.  To optimize for survival, our brain creates shortcuts called “neural networks.” The more we  use certain neural networks, the stronger they get. In brain science, it’s called Hebb’s law. “Neurons that fire together wire together.” – Donald Hebb

But what does Hebb’s law mean for you and your employees’ abilities to thrive? Each time we respond to a challenge from a place of worry, stress, or frustration, we program the brain to react the same way next time. As we grow up, many of us unintentionally strengthen our brain’s “stressed-out software” while simultaneously weakening our “confidence and resilience software.”

This BEVA session enables you and your employees to learn about good stress (eustress) and to explore how reframing stress can act as helpful rather than harmful to reverse the negative physiological changes that it causes. It also enables you and your employees to reconnect with your WHY, your inherent motivations so that these might act as an effective catalyst to thrive.

At the same time, this session introduces the basic human fundamental needs as presented by Marshall Rosenberg in his seminal work on Non-Violent Communication as a way to teach self-respect and effective boundaries.  Participants learn to express in an effective way their needs and also learn to listen effectively to understand others better.