Worksite Wellness Virtual Workshop Series

Below is a selection of previously recorded Worksite Wellness virtual workshops. Please click on each topic to view information about the speakers, slides, and recordings as available.

Burnout Is Real: How Leaders Can Spot It – And Take Action

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Slides - Burnout Is Real: How Leaders Can Spot It – And Take Action

Employee burnout is at historic levels. This physical or emotional exhaustion poses serious potential risks to our workplace: high turnover, increase of accidents on the job, workplace conflict, and exacerbation of mental health struggles. As leaders, we need to first understand our role in workplace stress that leads to burnout and take action to both prevent and respond to employees that are reaching their breaking point.

The solutions may not be easy and real change has to start within your management team. Join us to learn about the 5 main stages to employee burnout, how to talk to your employees at any stage along this spectrum, and some real-life tips for shifting your employee culture.

Speaker Bios

Lynn Bursell, Ed.D., Ed. S., LCMHC, Senior EAP Counselor

Dr. Lynn Bursell is a licensed mental health counselor with almost 30 years of experience providing employee assistance and counseling services. She is trained in solution-focused counseling, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, career development, disability, and motivational interviewing and is American Sign Language proficient. Lynn is deeply committed to her Vermont employers and employees and is highly skilled in providing clinical expertise and warm, client-centered guidance.

Genevieve Habeck, Director of Education and Business Development for Invest EAP

Gen has extensive experience in member relations and communication, holds a B.A. in English and professional certificate in marketing (both from UVM), and is also the SHRM Vermont Director of Workforce Readiness. Her areas of expertise include collaborating with brokers and consultants, workplace culture, recovery-friendly workplaces, and best practices for work/life balance. She has conducted workshops and trainings at several major regional events, including Department of Health Conferences, the SHRM conference, VTHRA and GMHRA workshops, and many others.

Feeling Burnt Out? How to Take Action to Protect Yourself and Your Job

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Slides - Burnout Is Real - How to Take Action to Protect Yourself and Your Job

Job burnout is a special type of work-related stress — it often shows up avoidance or anxiety around our work, cynicism, feelings of dread, or a sharp lack of motivation or concentration. If left unaddressed, burnout can take a serious toll on our overall quality of life.     

There’s good news: burnout is both preventable and treatable, often without switching jobs! Our workshop will include a self-assessment for burnout risk factors, prevention strategies, and how to handle burnout once it’s started.

Speaker Bio

Genevieve Habeck, Director of Education and Business Development for Invest EAP

Gen has extensive experience in member relations and communication, holds a B.A. in English and professional certificate in marketing (both from UVM), and is also the SHRM Vermont Director of Workforce Readiness. Her areas of expertise include collaborating with brokers and consultants, workplace culture, recovery-friendly workplaces, and best practices for work/life balance. She has conducted workshops and trainings at several major regional events, including Department of Health Conferences, the SHRM conference, VTHRA and GMHRA workshops, and many others.

Thank you OneDigital for sponsoring this session!

Tips from a Mediator - Conflict Resolution to Support Healthy Workplaces

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Slides - Tips from a Mediator - Conflict Resolution to Support Healthy Workplaces

Conflict is inevitable.  But how we engage with it, moment-to-moment and meeting-to-meeting, makes a big difference in determining whether it deteriorates morale or actually boosts learning, connection and productivity to promote a healthy workplace.  Learn from conversation with a practicing mediator to examine the utility of conflict, and to explore ways to greet its challenges with intention and ability.  

Speaker bio:

Jennifer Knauer, M.S. 

An instructor, facilitator and mediator, working mainly in community and organizational settings.  She hails from a background in crisis intervention, social work, and mediation, and has worked in the field of conflict resolution as a mediator/facilitator since 2003. 

In addition to a private practice in facilitation and planning, she teaches in mediation and conflict resolution courses at Champlain College, a program in which Ms. Knauer has been coaching, advising and/or instructing learners of conflict management skills for nearly twenty years.

Thank you to Invest EAP for sponsoring this session!

Promoting Health through Food in Today's Changing Workplace

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Promoting Health Through Food in the Workplace Slides

This session presents the latest science on culinary medicine in the workplace and distilling what works in terms of supporting your employees health through their food choices. Whether your employee is on the worksite or at home, there are ways that you the employer can promote and encourage healthy eating.  There will be will be a demonstration on quick and simple culinary techniques to create cravable healthy food by making a chili three ways that can be used throughout the busy work week. 

Speaker Bios

Deborah Kennedy PhD

The CEO of Culinary Rehab®,  Build Healthy Kids® and  Build Healthy Seniors® which establishes nutrition and culinary competencies, modular learning opportunities, prescriptive delivery methods and outreach programs for various populations. She received her PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition, Science and Policy. Dr. Kennedy has studied food from an early age - learning to cook at age 4, worked as a chef in Canada, obtained her doctorate in nutrition, authored three books on children and nutrition and five on Culinary Medicine (1/1/22 distribution date) and is a leader in culinary medicine. She served as the first Chair for Best Practices in the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative (a Harvard and CIA initiative).

Chef Russell Michel  

The Executive Chef at Canyon Ranch Wellness Resort and Spa, Tucson where he was fully enveloped in culinary creations and personalization of the guest experience. Hands on Cooking became a love of the heart which is why he has decided to share his passion with all people who are inspired by healthy cuisine and a lifetime of memorable experiences.  Prior to joining Canyon Ranch, Russell worked in the hospitality industry for over 36 years including locations like the Farm to Fork capitol of America where he was the Iron Chef of Sacramento, created a three-year Live TV segment called “Ask a Chef”, and the luxurious Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

Thank you to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont for sponsoring this session!

Recordings from 2020-2021 Virtual Workshop Series
Wellness at Home Video Series

The Department of Health and the Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports have partnered to develop a series of short videos to support wellness at home!  

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