After a morning program with a transportation company, once again I’m reminded that so many folks, across generations, are not getting adequate sleep. They are so wound up that they can’t fall asleep or, if they do get up during the night, they have a hard time getting back to sleep. Or they hope that the TV or iPad will somehow induce drowsiness – NOT! And this disruption takes a toll both on personal health and professional productivity.
Have no fear, the Stress doc is here, with some useful tips and techniques on “power napping” along with a great way to take some time off. In fact, let’s start with the latter:
1) Busy Women’s Retreat. National Stress-Conflict Resolution-Team Building Expert, Psychohumorist ™, Author, and Retreat Facilitator, The Stress Doc™ (www.stressdoc.com) and rustic yet comfy Rivendell Cabins, Franklin, NC, (http://www.RivendellCabins.com ) teaming up for a Busy Women's Retreat, the weekend of May 3-5, 2013. Recharge in the beautiful Smoky Mtns. Develop Stress Resiliency, Set Healthy Relationship Boundaries, Prevent/Recover from Burnout, Design Work-Life Transitioning, Reconnect to Creative Passion. Share great ideas, emotional support, Yoga classes, Relaxation-Visualization exercises. Three rustic and comfortable cabins; also two cabins with hot tubs. Three meals provided. Space is limited. First time great price of $250. For more info, call 828-349-6087 or 800 994 6462.
And for tweeting:
Retreat Expert, the Stress Doc@aol.com at rustic www.RivendellCabins.com , Franklin, NC to lead rejuvenating Busy Women’s Retreat, May 3-5, 2013. Info: 828-349-6087
2) Developing Natural SPEED – SLEEP: Napping – Alternative States of Brain Consciousness and Relaxation.
A. Sleep Epidemic Hits Corporate America
1. Costs of Sleep Deprivation
2. Not Sleeping, Not Working: Vital Statistics
3. Is Sleep for Sissies?
4. Healthcare Risks and Sleep Training Rewards
B. Grappling with the Sleep Epidemic: Value of “Power Napping”
1. Napping Research and Rewards
2. Length of Nap and Type of Sleep
3. How to Nap, Even at Work
A. Sleep Epidemic Hits Corporate America. I will paste below Lauren Weber’s recent article, “Go Ahead, Hit the Snooze Button,” The Wall Street Journal, January 23, 2013, in which she states, “one-third of American workers aren't sleeping enough to function at peak levels, and that chronic exhaustion is costing billions of dollars in lost productivity, according to researchers from Harvard Medical School.”
[See entire module below.]
3) Keynotes that Won’t Put You to Sleep. And finally, I will close with two new keynote speaking programs: one upcoming next month for Fairfax County Govt employees (No. Virginia). The other is proposed for October for the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) – Palm Beach County, FL.
Playfully Challenging Mindset and Morale:
Exploring Your Perspective, Expanding the Possible
In a TNT – Time-Numbers-Technology – Driven & Distracted Culture, work environments and their people face new and ongoing demands as well as pressures to productively adapt. The vital question: How to encourage both individual creativity and interactive community so that everyday challenges yield opportunities to discover and design new and enriched ways of thinking, acting, and relating? Have no fear, Mark Gorkin, MSW, LICSW, the Stress Doc ™, is here. A popular Fairfax County Govt speaker and workshop leader, (and former Stress and Violence Prevention Consultant for the US Postal Service; he’s battle-tested), the Doc brings high energy and thought-provoking ideas, as well as FUN interactive exercises and valuable take home tools. You’ll be challenged to expand your cognitive complexity and diversity awareness and skills; learn to assertively and empathically disarm self-defeating power struggles; and finally, evolve a personal and interpersonal vision that strengthens your stress resiliency and brain agility while stimulating collaborative and synergistic problem-solving: not only is the whole greater than the sum of the parts but, most importantly, parts can evolve into partners.
Objectives
1. Strengthen Your Mindset through a Challenging Association Exercise – enhance cognitive complexity-cultural diversity awareness and competence
2. Engage in a Playful Power Struggle Exercise – learn to disarm self-defeating power struggles by asking “good questions” while building interpersonal trust
3. Generate a Personal Vision with Purpose and Passion – discover a powerful story that challenges the transforming of tension and frustration by doing your own “head work, heart work, and homework”
4. Expand the Possible by Developing Natural SPEED – using presentation and group sharing, gain key tools and techniques for building stress resiliency, brain agility, and real world synergy.
Seek the higher power of Stress Doc humor: May the Farce be with You.
Don’t miss your appointment with the Stress Doc!
Mark Gorkin, MSW, LICSW, "The Stress Doc" ™, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, is an acclaimed keynote and webinar speaker and "Motivational Humorist & Team Communication Catalyst" known for his interactive, inspiring and FUN programs for both government agencies and major corporations. A training and Critical Incident/Grief Intervention Consultant for the National EAP/Wellness Company, Business Health Services in Baltimore, MD, the Doc is also leading “Stress, Team Building and Humor” programs for various branches of the Armed Services. Mark is the author of Practice Safe Stress and of The Four Faces of Anger. See his award-winning, USA Today Online "HotSite" – www.stressdoc.com – called a "workplace resource" by National Public Radio (NPR). For more info on the Doc's programs, his personal coaching, or to receive his free e-newsletter, email stressdoc@aol.com .
