Handouts
- See our guide for ideas on how to best manage social distancing and working remotely (PDF)
- View the Managing Employees During Challenging Times handout for tips and ideas on how to best manage staff coping with varied challenges
- The Managing Emotions as an Essential Worker handout provides advice on how to navigate through the range of emotions that employees may be feeling. View the Managing Emotions as as Essential Worker handout in Spanish
- The Intentionally Coping Well in Times of High Stress handout provides tips and strategies on how to decrease stress levels
- The Coping with Grief handout provides information on the grief response and different ways to do grief work and cope.
- The Grieving a Coworker handout provides ways to offer support to others who are grieving.
- The Resources for Election Stress and Beyond handout helps navigate the spectrum of feelings you may be encountering related to the election
- View the Container Imagery handout to learn about a specific technique to help you manage your feelings and thoughts
- The Grounding Techniques handout provides tips on how to focus your thoughts in the present moment
- Read the Resources for Nourishing our Nervous System to get guidance on how to care for our mind and bodies routinely.
- The Tips for Navigating Political Discussions at Work handout provides valuable information on how to keep things professional within the workplace, when it comes to having conversations that may not be appropriate
- View the Challenging Conversations handout out tips on how to manage engaging in a difficult conversation
- The Managing Anxiety as We Come Back Together handout outlines the types of anxiety and some tips for grounding, coping, effectively addressing concerns, and setting up supportive patterns.
- The Managing Employees as We Come Back Together handout describes actions leaders can take that are supported by the body of research on resilience and burnout to help employees while they are navigating uncertainty, change, fear and anxiety.
- The Supporting Body Image While Coming Back Together handout honors the stress that our bodies went through during a global pandemic and provides tips for not increasing pressure to criticize our bodies or food choices.
- The Eldercare Issues as We Come Back Together handout aims to help you maneuver the various changes in needs and capacity for care that accompany our changing landscape.
- The Communication Skills for Coming Back Together handout aims to give some advice on how to navigate increased barriers to communication (such as anxiety and negative outlook) with compassion and empathy.
- The Post-Traumatic Growth in Challenging Times handout looks at research on post-traumatic growth to reflect on our values as a way to guide growth in the days ahead.
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