"Reclaim Your Energy: Micro Self-Care for Busy HR Professionals"-RV SHRM

This 2-hour interactive workshop is for HR professionals who want to learn how to prioritize their holistic health in a busy work environment without investing a lot of time and resources. The workshop will be delivered in two parts to include a break. Participants will be introduced to a holistic framework they can apply to build self-care and resilience. Participants will learn the impacts of stress on health and work performance and the signs of burnout. They will be guided through several micro self-care practices that have a big impact on reducing stress and protecting against burnout over time. Participants will leave with tangible tools and reliable skills to build small doable moments of self-care into each day, including the Self-Assessment Tool; Self-Care Strategies, and Box Breath for Stress Management that can be shared in their workplace. Participants will: Learn impacts of stress on health and work performance and signs of burnout. Receive a holistic framework to learn how self-care can be used as a tool to build resilience and strengthen one’s leadership role. Leave with tools and skills to enhance personal micro self-care practices that can also be applied to support staff self-care. Participate in group discussions to enhance learning. About Presenter: Maria Loebach, BSN, RN, HTCP, has been a holistic nurse for 12 years and has spent 8 years in the Veterans Administration (VA) Caregiver Support Program coaching family caregivers of post-9/11 combat veterans who were at high risk for burnout. Maria has seen firsthand how individuals who are juggling multiple demands of work and home can learn to prioritize self-care, build resilience, and protect themselves against burnout. While at the VA, she helped establish a Healing Touch Clinic for both veterans and caregivers; provided whole health coaching; and co-created a virtual offering for caregivers called the Caregiver Whole Health Matters series. As the founder of Wholeness Reawakened, Maria now shares similar approaches with organizations that want to build employee resilience and prevent burnout. Maria is committed to promoting a culture that values practicing self-care to improve the resilience and well-being of all people and the planet.