Practice Safe Stress ™: Preventing Burnout While Building Resilience and Team Camaraderie in Challenging Times

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Mark Gorkin

Speaker: Mark Gorkin

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Date
08 January, 2026 (Thursday)
Time
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
Duration
60 Minutes

Overview

Today’s politically charged world is filled with program and financial uncertainty and cutbacks, clients confronted by past trauma and present adversity who need and demand our time, attention, and services.  No wonder many professionals feel they are living on the edge of stress.  Have no fear (well, maybe a little) … “The Stress Doc” ™ is here.  Let the Stress Doc’s “Get FIT” – FUN-Interactive-Thought-provoking – program provide tools for: a) Burnout Prevention/Recovery, b) Psychological Hardiness/Stress Resilience, and c) Natural SPEED.  Learn techniques for dealing with loss and change and for disarming self-defeating power struggles.  Learn to positively set boundaries while gaining structures and strategies for building more inclusive, "helmets off," and "we're all in this together" teams and culture.

Area Covered

  • Rapidly discover stress smoke signals along with the Four Stages of Burnout
  • Discover “The Six ‘R’s of Burnout Recovery and manage transitional challenges through research-based "Psychological Hardiness"
  • Discover the creative and new vision potential in “letting go” and “The Eight ‘F’s for Managing Loss and Change”
  • Learning how to say “No” constructively with colleagues and “higher ups”
  • Disarm and defuse power struggles by asking courageous "good questions" and using affirming "I" messages while reducing status tensions and learning to build trust
  • Discover team exercises, structures and strategies for managing stress, enhancing team inclusion-participation and collaborative problem-solving
  • Closing tips and techniques for humor, Natural SPEED and Brain Agility along with the Doc's acclaimed "Shrink Rap" ™.

Why Should You Attend

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This training is for anyone realizing that in times of rapid change and uncertainty personal resilience and healing/harmonizing humor in the face of stress, loss, and change certainly influence productivity and emotional well-being.  In addition, these stress resilience resources and strategies impact our capacity to empathize, connect, and productively partner with others.  And both personal and interpersonal dynamics impact the productive, supportive, and collaborative potential of work groups and teams.  

Who Will Benefit?

All personnel levels – from front-line employees to all levels of management will gain skills, tools, and strategies for:
Identifying stress and burnout warning signs and positively developing stress, conflict, and change resilience skills in both themselves and in colleagues, team members, and those they supervise/manage.  Clearly, individuals, teams, and the organization as a whole benefit when a work culture is more stress resilient and focused, open and fun!

Speaker

Mark Gorkin, MSW, LICSW, "The Stress Doc" ™, a nationally acclaimed speaker, writer, and "Psychohumorist" ™, is a founding partner and Stress Resilience and Trauma Debriefing Consultant for the Nepali Diaspora Behavioral Health & Wellness Initiative. Current 247Compliance/Ijona Skills Training Expert; also,Leadership Coach/Training Consultant for the international Embry-Riddle Aeronautics University at the Daytona, FL headquarters. A former Stress and Violence Prevention Consultant for the US Postal Service, he has led numerous Pre-Deployment Stress Resilience-Humor-Team Building Retreats for the US Army. Mark also has extensive experience as a Critical Incident Consultant. The Doc is the author of Practice Safe Stress, The Four Faces of Anger, and Preserving Human Touch in a High-Tech World. Mark’s award-winning, USA Today Online "HotSite" – www.stressdoc.com – was called a "workplace resource" by National Public Radio (NPR).

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