This interactive workshop allows participants to explore new strategies for caring for themselves in the face of stress as well as caring for their colleagues and contributing to a healthy, psychologically safe workplace. This workshop includes content on: -The impact of changing patron needs and workplace trauma on staff well-being -Accessible, affordable, and easily implemented strategies for self-care, including both short-term, immediate strategies to use in high-stress situations and long-term strategies for increasing resilience to stress -Limits of self-care -Information about “community care” and ways to support “sustainable practice,” which emphasize collective efforts to create psychologically safe, responsive, and protective workplace environments that promote employee well-being (rather than focusing entirely on individual and self-focused strategies for wellness) -Strategies library staff can use to promote community care in their workplace -Exploration of personal coping strategies -Development of a personal self-care plan
