Maintaining well-being and professional capacity: Practitioner self-care strategies
This video discusses practitioner self-care strategies to maintain well-being and professional capacity, including grounding techniques and self-awareness.
00:00:00 This lesson discusses practitioner self-care strategies to maintain well-being and professional capacity. It emphasizes the importance of integrating intentional and purposeful strategies into daily tasks.
💡 Practitioner self-care strategies are important for maintaining well-being and integrity.
🧘 These strategies go beyond basic self-care and involve intentional and purposeful actions.
⏰ To ensure consistency, it is crucial to integrate these strategies into daily professional tasks.
00:01:42 Practitioner self-care strategies for client sessions, meetings, and new situations. Prioritize clarity, eliminate distractions, and tune in to your body and emotions for optimal focus and alignment.
📝 Before starting any work or meeting, it is important to check in with yourself, clarify your intention, and eliminate distractions.
💡 Create a brain dump or to-do list to help you focus on the task at hand.
🧘♂️ Tune into your body and emotions to shift your vibration and align with the upcoming tasks.
00:03:20 Practitioner self-care: Ground yourself before each session, believe in each individual's potential, and stay connected to yourself during interactions.
🧘 Practitioners need to take moments to ground themselves and get into the right emotional state before a session.
💪 It is important for practitioners to maintain belief in the potential of every individual and avoid becoming drained.
🌱 During sessions, practitioners should continually ground themselves, maintain emotional regulation, and connect with themselves separate from the client.
00:05:01 Practitioner self-care strategies: Pay attention to your body, regulate emotions, and identify future needs for balance and growth.
👀 Paying attention to our body and its warning signs is crucial for self-care as practitioners.
🙌 We can use self-regulation techniques, such as taking breaks and grounding exercises, to support ourselves during sessions.
💭 After each session, it's important to reflect on our emotions, separate our own emotions from the client's, and identify any future needs for personal growth.
00:06:39 Learn self-care strategies for practitioners to process experiences, extract wisdom, regulate emotions, and approach clients with a fresh mindset.
📝 Practitioners should take time to process their experiences before moving on to the next client for multiple reasons.
💡 Taking brief moments before, during, and after interactions with clients to check in with oneself is important for supporting day-to-day well-being.
🔎 There are weekly lessons on grounding strategies, applying the brakes, emotional regulation, and tuning into one's body for further information.
00:08:17 Discover the importance of self-awareness and recognizing the signs of compassion fatigue. Find strategies to support your well-being and make lasting change for ongoing practitioner self-care.
💡 Self-awareness of when we need extra help is vital.
🚦 Being aware of signs of compassion fatigue and trauma.
🔄 Adaptability and change are crucial for self-care.
00:09:58 Practitioner self-care strategies: Discover ways to support your well-being through small moments of self-care before, during, and after client interactions.
📝 Having structures and systems in place for self-care in your daily routine can empower you.
📚 There are articles and a handout available with ideas from other practitioners on self-care techniques.
⏰ Micro moments of self-care before, during, and after client interactions are important for practitioner well-being.
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