NE Iowa News

Northeast Iowa Community College is inviting two leading presenters and thinkers to share strategies that can improve resiliency, reduce stress and decrease burnout. The presentations, both offered virtual live online, are focused on the well-being needs of healthcare professionals and their struggles during and after the pandemic crisis. 

Dr. Amit Sood of the Mayo Clinic will present, “SMART: Stress Management and Resiliency Training for Healthcare Workers” on Tuesday, April 18, from 9-10:30 a.m. Sood developed SMART to an innovative and effective approach to enhance individual resilience and well-being. SMART takes participants on a back-stage tour of the brain to help understand brain mechanisms that deplete resilience and vitality every single day. Participants will learn insights and skills that will help overcome these neural vulnerabilities and enhance the ability to handle change, uncertainty and daily stressors.  Dr. Sood’s program has been tested and found effective in more than 30 clinical trials for decreasing symptoms of stress, anxiety and burnout, and increasing resilience, well-being, mindfulness, happiness and positive health behaviors. Some of the most reputed organizations/companies and largest health systems have implemented SMART as their core resiliency solution. 

Cy Wakeman will return to NICC to deliver a presentation on Wednesday, May 3, from 9-10:30 a.m. Wakeman is a drama researcher, international leadership speaker, consultant, author and the founder of Reality-Based Leadership. Wakeman’s event, “Evolved, Not Traumatized – Well-Being, Resilience & Post-Traumatic Growth,” honors the professionalism and dedication of caregivers and provides strategies to restore commitment to the healthcare field, rejuvenate spirits and fuel post-traumatic growth so that all can emerge evolved rather than traumatized from the experiences of the past years. 

Wakeman will teach techniques to use challenging experiences to build sustainable resilience in teams and individuals, highlight the possibilities of post-traumatic growth as a transformational response and provide strategies founded in personal accountability to enhance the well-being and engagement of caregivers in the workplace.

To register for SMART: Stress Management and Resiliency Training for Healthcare Workers (#91939) or Evolved, Not Traumatized – Well-Being, Resilience & Post-Traumatic Growth (#91940), visit nicc.edu/solutions. 

Both sessions are sponsored by the Brain Health Awareness Project offered through the support of the Mental Health/Disability Services of the East Central Region and in partnership with Northeast Iowa Community College, Kirkwood Community College and Hawkeye Community College. The sessions have been endorsed by the Healthiest State Initiative. This is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization intended to inspire Iowans to improve their physical, social and emotional well-being, and help Iowa become the healthiest state in the nation.

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