Preventing Burnout: Maintaining Balance in Our Work and in Our Lives

This workshop will feature informal discussion, exercises, writing practice, drawing, some lecture. Participants will come away with several practical ways of preventing burnout...

• How to centre.
• An examination of your decision-making process.
• Creative problem-solving.

We will explore the restorative power of right-brain activities like drawing and writing practice as well as very practical problem-solving techniques designed to lower stress.

Executive Leadership Coach, Alfred DePew (MA, CPCC, PCC) has worked with the CEO’s, Executive Directors, Team Leaders, Management, Staff and/or Board Members, the Albany Times Union, DHR International Executive Search, Democratic National Committee, LL Bean, Macdonald Page & Co., Maine Medical Center, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, Portland Public Library, Portland School Committee, Public Relations Council of Maine, Rhode Island School of Design, San Carlos Charter Learning Center, Shalom House, and WestJet.

Alfred is certified by both the Coaches Training Institute (CPCC, 2001) and the International Coach Federation (PCC, 2005), and is an Authorized Facilitator of the Team Diagnostic Assessment™ He has led creativity and leadership workshops throughout the United States and in Canada. He is the author of Wild & Woolly: A Journal Keeper’s Handbook and may be reached through his website.