How big a problem is burnout?
MentalHealth-UK.org suggests 1 in 5 UK workers felt ‘unable’ to manage pressure and stress levels at work. What does this look like for the 20% of the working population experiencing it?
The World Health Organisation defines Burnout as a workplace syndrome and mentions three dimensions:
- Exhaustion
- Growing negativity
- Loss of efficacy
You may recognise these from your clients’ lives, or even from your own. But do you know what is going on at the biological, psychological and social levels, and how to engage with it? And how does your clinical approach prepare you for the integration of personal and situational aspects involved in this?
The training will include the following:
Recognition
- Burnout is a natural consequence of unresolved chronic stress, with underlying biological mechanisms
- When you understand it, you can tackle it
- Counselling perspective: it’s burnout not me, and absolutely not some kind of personal defect.
Recovery
- What can I do in the here and now to put out the fire?
- What am I truly responsible for?
- Counselling perspective: why do you find it hard to enforce boundaries?
Regrowth
- What has burnout given me – what unspoken needs have I learned to prioritise, what warning signs have I learned to stop ignoring?
- How do I change my underlying relationship with the world, with people, with myself, to avoid the moth coming to the flame?
- Counselling perspective: enabling deep change in values and goals
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- A biopsychosocial understanding of client burnout patterns and recovery.
- Use your counselling experience and skills to help clients resolve burnout through recognition, recovery and regrowth
- How to engage with the somatic impact of chronic stress and challenge the demands of toxic loyalty, compliance and people-pleasing
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Counsellors, registered and in-training, who wish to address the situational and somatic dimensions of client burnout.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- It will give you the confidence and tools to address the unique dimensions of client burnout
Course Content
Presenter
I know from my own life the slow drift towards every workday being grey, the loss of meaning and motivation, the decreasing ability to imagine life being any other way.
But I have also experienced the shock of realising in counselling that things didn’t have to be this way, and the technicolor vibrancy of finding new purpose and meaning in my own life.
As a counsellor, I help people to step off this path and rediscover the spontaneity and excitement of engaging with their now and exploring their future. This change, pushing back against the forces that led to burnout in the first place, may be harder than it sounds – this is why I am here, offering a counselling perspective on burnout and a burnout-informed counselling, all part of a planned recovery path.
