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Post-Traumatic Growth: How Trauma Shapes our Priorities in Work & Life
Events Date: May 18, 2022 / 10:00 am - 11:15 am
Join the HCA community at this workshop, developed and presented by Diana Tikasz, MSW, RSW. “Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG) is a term used is psychology to describe the phenomenon of positive change that people can experience in the wake of a negative experience or trauma. Signs that PTG has occurred include a greater...
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Working Stronger: Building Strategies – Improving Mental Health
Events Date: March 8 - 9, 2022
“The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), Alberta Division will host our virtual workplace mental health conference on March 8 & 9, 2022. Working Stronger: Building Strategies – Improving Mental Health is designed to help Alberta’s employers create and maintain mentally healthy workplaces. The Working Stronger Conference makes mental health matter by...
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Working Stronger: Alberta’s Resource for Workplace Mental Health
From the Canadian Mental Health Association. “Responsible employers provide a physically safe environment for employees—but what about their psychological safety? Supporting employee mental health can improve productivity, cut down on absences and increase employee retention. CMHA, Alberta Division has a suite of workplace mental health training opportunities to assist your...
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TEND Resources
From TEND Academy. The resource section of the TEND Academy website features links to their articles on empathic strain, secondary trauma and burnout, as well as links to their complete collections of podcasts and videos.
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Secondary Traumatic Stress Resources
From Secondary Traumatic Stress Consortium. This webpage contains a number of resources for those working in high-stress and potentially traumatic environments, including multiple assessment tools for secondary traumatic stress; recommended books, podcasts, reports, and articles; and links to other useful websites.
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Navigating Through the Fog: Maintaining our Ability to Think Clearly in Times of Crisis
Webinars Date: March 23, 2021
Join the HCA community at this event, hosted by TEND and developed by Françoise Mathieu, M.Ed, RP. High stakes, lots of pressure, intricate problems and few resources – crisis situations challenge us to respond quickly, compassionately and creatively. But how do we retain the ability to think clearly when, the reality...
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Working Stronger 2021: Building resilient workplaces in the face of challenges
Events Date: March 9 - 10, 2021
“The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), Alberta Division is hosting our virtual workplace mental health conference on March 9 & 10, 2021. Alberta’s workplace mental health conference is designed to help Alberta’s employers create and maintain mentally healthy workplaces despite the obstacles we’ve experienced in 2020. Working Stronger – Building...
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Return to the Workplace: A psychological toolkit for heading back to work
From the Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario Division “Developed by the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), Ontario Division, in partnership with Mental Health Works and BounceBack Ontario, Return to the workplace: A psychological toolkit for heading back to work aims to serve employees and employers across a variety of sectors....
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COVID-19 Self-care and Resilience Guide for The Working Mind
From the Mental Health Commission of Canada “The spread of COVID-19 has caused many Canadians to change their everyday lives to help “flatten the curve” to avoid a spike in cases that would overwhelm our health services. These are all difficult situations and everyone has their own response to stress....
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Tips For Working From Home
From the Centre for Innovation in Campus Mental Health In the midst of transitioning to remote work, supporting ourselves and our communities is crucial. We’ve gathered some ideas for helping you and your campuses through this transition. If you have any tips or resources you’d like to share, please feel...
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A Date For You: Exploring Mindfulness and Self-Compassion
Webinars Date: February 14, 2017
Alan Donsky and Alex Klassen from the University of Calgary spoke with HCA about the importance of understanding self-compassion and mindfulness in your campus experience. Together, we define and learn the practical skills of self-compassion, as well as discuss mindfulness and apply it to our post-secondary context.
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