Self-care in the Workplace - a one day personal and professional development workshop

Every day it's a challenge not to lose myself in busy-ness at work. Before I even know it, I can be pushing myself to do more or just complete that 'one last thing' - and end up exhausted. I'm learning (but sometimes not fast enough it seems) that the only true indication of where I'm really at, or capable of doing at any given moment, lies in my body. 

Yes, that big lump attached to our heads, that has demands of it own we often like to ignore. Who hasn't pushed through the need for a lunch break when there's an urgent deadline on? Or taken an extra caffeine hit  when really we're tired and just want to stop? 

The unfortunate truth is the more we over-ride what our body tells us in each moment, the sooner we head down the path of more the serious bodily signals that lead to illness and disease. 

However reconciling what we need for ourselves with the demands of the workplace can be tricky - we're not there in isolation, we're immersed in a workplace culture and structure. We're there to do a job, and more often than not, do it as quickly as possible.

How to reconcile these demands with what our bodies are telling us can be difficult. Heck, recognising what the body is even telling us can be difficult, so out of touch are we with what's happening outside of our minds!

The good news is help is at hand in the form of the Self-care in the Workplace Professional and Personal Development Workshop to be held on Friday 23 March in Logan, Brisbane. It will cover how to understand the language of the body, how to become self-caring in the work context, and how to begin to make more self-caring choices everyday.

The workshop is open to people from all sectors - private, public and nonprofit - so feel free to let friends, family, colleagues and clients know about it. 

The day will run from 9.30am to 4pm, will include a delicious, supportive morning tea and lunch, and costs a very reasonable $220 total. 

For workshop details follow the link above or contact me via email or on 0419 274 351.

Hopefully I'll see you there - I'll certainly be attending, learning more about how I can consistently make the choice not to put myself on the back-burner.