Resilience Ready: A Free Webinar for First Responders and Helpers
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM) (EST)
Description
We know that it’s important to take care of our mental health . . . but we don’t always know what that actually means.
It’s even harder when we work as a first responder or in another helping role that has a front-row seat to grief, trauma, and suffering.
In this 60-minute webinar, we will discuss what it means to build a robust and practical resilience routine. Going beyond basic self-care, a resilience routine is a protocol that is built for your specific needs and personality. Shannon Mead, Marriage and Family Therapist will walk you through a step-by-step process of identifying the routines and structures that will help you stay healthy in the midst of the stress of your job. As a therapist, adoptive mom, and friend/family member to a whole bunch of guardians – Shannon knows that helping takes a heavy toll on those who are willing to shoulder the burden. Whether she is working with individuals, couples, or an entire organization, my purpose is to strengthen those who sacrifice for our community.
Shannon has a Masters degree in Couple and Family Therapy from Antioch University (NV License #4519) and a relational coaching certificate from Fielding University. As a therapist, Shannon tends to be tactical and straightforward. Shannon is deeply invested in the impact of compassion fatigue and secondary trauma, and focused most of my research on these topics. As a foster/adoptive parent she has felt the impact herself, but has also seen it in the lives of her guardian friends and family. “My humor is dark, my wardrobe is jeans and t-shirts, and my favorite place is outdoors.