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GA14: Thriving in Our Work: Key strategies to prevent burn-out, live full balanced lives and keep the joy
Hours: 3
Presenter, Martha Ramos Duffer, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist, motivational health and wellness speaker, multicultural competence trainer and organizational consultant based in Austin, Texas. Dr. Ramos Duffer is the founder of Quantum Possibilities, which provides a broad array of consulting, training, coaching and therapeutic services focused on personal and spiritual growth for individuals, healing and joyful relationships for couples and peak performance, healthy systems and multicultural competence for organizations. Dr. Ramos Duffer was born in Mexico City and grew up in Puerto Rico. After earning her doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology in 1994 from Baylor University, she has taught undergraduate and graduate psychology courses at Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, and since 2005 to the present, at St. Edwards University. For five years she served as the Executive Director of a community based non profit organization focused on social and economic justice, community building and cultural arts. Throughout her career she has provided psychological services through various agencies, hospitals and her own private practice. Dr. Ramos Duffer has spoken widely nationally and regionally on racial and gender justice, multicultural competence, motivation, health, and wellness. She has had the opportunity of working with varied local, regional and national organizations, developing programs and providing training to their Boards of Directors, Faculty and/or Staff in multicultural competence, leadership, management, appreciative inquiry, secondary trauma prevention, wellness, and successful goal setting, helping them gain the skills and create the systems necessary to sustain a healthy growth-promoting work environment and carry out their missions more effectively. A frequent guest on Univisions Despierta Austin and keynote speaker at conferences around the state and nation, Dr. Ramos Duffer has become a sought after speaker, consultant and trainer in the areas of productivity, leadership, organizational health and effectiveness, building anti-racist multiculturally competent organizations, and wellness.
Thriving in our Work: Key strategies to prevent burn-out, live full balanced lives and keep the joy
Faculty members in community colleges balance a myriad of roles and daunting demands as they pursue their own scholarship, create innovative learning environments, face never ending piles of grading, and often serve as first responders to student challenges, crises, and tragedies. Research and experience has proven that this breadth and depth of demands can lead to burn out, compassion fatigue, and even secondary trauma. Research also has identified practices that can contribute to transforming challenges and demands into growth promoting and life-enriching experiences. In this workshop we will begin by learning to identify signs and symptoms of burn-out and compassion fatigue so that we can respond swiftly, effectively, and compassionately to ourselves and each other. From there, we will explore evidenced-based wellness strategies to prevent and treat burn-out and compassion fatigue and promote well-being and joy in our lives and work. We will learn what recent findings in neuroscience have revealed about work-life balance, including how to create optimal levels of balance and what practices support optimal functioning for our minds and brains. We will discuss resilience fostering strategies that can be implemented to make our work a source of healing, purpose, and inspiration. Together, we will identify barriers and challenges to implementing self-care practices and learn about new research from the fields of neuroscience, psychology and behavioral economics which reveals how human motivation, choice and willpower work. We will use the findings from this research to conclude with equipping ourselves with proven strategies to build the skills and habits to consistently and successfully make choices that are aligned with our intentions and goals, in order to access our joy, and thrive in our work and our lives. |
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