smartPROFESSIONAL
Stress Management and Resiliency Techniques for Professionals
Trauma-Sensitive, SEL-informed (SEL = Social and Emotional Learning)
Why Bring smartProfessional to Your Organization?
smartProfessional™ fosters deep sense of belonging and connection within your organization, setting the stage for improved employee well-being.
Discover a program that:
- Develops Effective Strategies for Challenging Situations: Acquire strategies to relate effectively, ultimately improving the ability to engage with clients, customers and colleagues constructively.
- Manages Stress and Foster Emotional Control: Equips your staff to effectively manage stress and embrace challenges. smarProfessional equips you with tools to manage stress through a greater understanding and control of emotions, empowering them to create a productive and efficient work environment.
- Prioritizes Self-Care and Builds Resilience: Learn self-care techniques that foster personal and professional resilience, enhancing the ability to handle the challenges of the job effectively.
- Enhances Concentration and Executive Function: Gain insights and practices to help staff engage in efficient planning, decision-making, and impulse control.
- Revitalizes Purpose and Enhances Physical and Mental Well-being: Promote happiness through healthy habits of the mind while cultivating overall mental and physical well-being, both personally and professionally.
Aligns with 2024 Insights: Employee Health and Productivity Report (Personify Health)
- Better Programs, Better Outcomes: Employees who say their employer has optimized their health and wellbeing program have better outcomes across the board, including fewer employee challenges, health having less impact on job performance, and less time wasted searching for answers about their benefits programs.
- Wellbeing: The Unseen Priority: Only one in four employees believe their employer makes employee wellbeing a high priority, but the data indicates it should be. Half of employees report their health has impacted their ability to do the job, with mental and emotional health being the top issue.
Workplace Mental Health: What is the Issue?
https://mentalhealthcommission.ca/what-we-do/workplace/
“Workplaces can play an essential part in maintaining positive mental health. They can give people the opportunity to feel productive and be a strong contributor to employee wellbeing. Yet it can also be a stressful environment that contributes to the rise of mental health problems and illnesses. No workplace is immune from these risks and we cannot afford to limit our definition of occupational health and safety to only the physical.”
Linking Well-being to Work: The connection between health and wellbeing, job performance, and employee satisfaction.
Employee productivity relies heavily on their health and wellbeing. True business success comes from recognizing that employees mirror the care and investment they receive from their employers. This directly influences your bottom line.
Contact us to find out more.
smartProfessional™ – A 9-Session Resilience Program
Program Structure:
smartProfessional™ is a 9-session, 20-hour, evidence-based secular program, designed for organizations. Each session includes:
- Presentations
- Group discussion
- Experiential practices in mindfulness >
- 4-hour silent retreat
- Weekly home practice
- Engagement and Interactivity
Certification:
Successful participants receive a smartProfessional Certificate of Completion.
SMART Integrates the teachings, practices and research from:
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
- Mindful Self-Compassion
- Mindfulness-Based Emotional Balance
- Mindful Movement
- Kindness and Compassion training
Who Should Attend
Organizational leaders, administrators and staff, who are committed to creating healthy workplace environments.
FAQ's about SMART
An evidence-based, trauma-sensitive, SEL-informed program designed to address the needs of educators (Kindergarten to Grade 12) and professional support staff.
Stress Management and Resiliency Techniques
The 20-hour program is delivered in a workshop setting, consists of 8 x two- hour sessions, a 4-hour silent retreat and includes home practice.
Participants who have completed the requirements receive a smartEducation Certificate of Completion.
ME researches and manages the development of the evidence base for continual updating of the curriculum and training of SMART facilitators
Heidi Bornstein, Director, SMART Ontario
416 267-4707 | heidi@mindfulnesseveryday.org
SMART Participant Manual
Additional relevant resources: articles, books recommendations, websites, cds.
There is a manageable amount of home practice – between 15-20 minutes per day. |
Educators and helping professionals, nurses, community organizational leaders and staff as well as organizations interested in creating a community of wellness.
SMART facilitators have engaged in a 100+ comprehensive training pathway consisting of training programs (Foundations), practicums, mentoring and on-going professional development. |
SMARTeducation Research
Thirty years of informed basic research and, more recently, neuroscience, offer compelling evidence to support the use of employing mindfulness practices in education. The application of mindfulness by students and teachers has the potential to improve academic achievement, mental health, and positive relationships. Scientific studies show that mindfulness training develops one’s concentration, attention, executive function.
Download Research Summary from UBC Here
More Smart Research
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karen-Ragoonaden
Participants notice increased capacity to:
– befriend your emotions
– use deep self-care to maintain emotional balance, leading to a change of trait, not just a change of state
– manage challenging situations
– effectively improve concentration,
– decision making & wise action enhance purpose and joy in your work and personal life
– relate & respond more effectively to stress to avoid burnout feel better,
– physically and mentally feel connected and part of a like-minded community
– promote leadership develop effective communication skills
– promote positive relationships increase presence
– build on inner resilience
– Explicit teachings on intention, self-compassion, kindness, empathy and compassion
– Explicit teachings on emotions, emotional balance, emotional literacy and managing strong emotions
– Sessions include simple foundational Mindful Movement flows
– Emphasis on bringing mindfulness into daily life using the attitudes of mindfulness and informal mindfulness practices
SMART is delivered both In-Person in Ontario and BC, and ONLINE, in a method that is highly participatory, engaging, and interactive. |
SMART FEE Winter 2023= $500.00 per person CDN
More Information HERE: https://mindfulnesseveryday.org/schedule.html
Organizational Rates Are Available
Subsidies are available. More Information HERE: https://mindfulnesseveryday.org/mindfulnessineducation.html#scholarships
The SMART Facilitator Training Pathway is a 100+ hour program that involves direct teacher training programs, practicums, mentoring and on-going professional development. More information HERE: