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Tuesday October 3, 2023 1:00- 2:30 PM Eastern Time
Burnout is a state of complete mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion. Sometimes, burnout can creep up on us without us even realizing it is happening. So, how can we prevent burnout if we don’t always recognize that it is happening? How are we meant to take care of ourselves if we are stuck in a cycle of feeling overwhelmed and exhausted? How do our social identities influence the ways we experience stress and burnout?
This workshop will explore how to recognize burnout in its various stages. We will talk through the ways that experiences of marginalization and discrimination influence how we experience & process stress and burnout.
Finally, we will discuss strategies for proactively preventing burnout and how we can make a plan to take care of ourselves when we realize we are becoming burnt out.
Presenter: Tess Benser
About the Presenter
Tess Benser (they/them/theirs), Community Advocate. Educator. , is a well-being, social justice, and sexuality educator who lives in South Philly. Tess holds a Master’s degree in Women & Gender Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Prior to joining Health Federation of Philadelphia, Tess was the Assistant Director of Outreach & Engagement at the West Chester University Center for Women & Gender Equity where they maintained multidisciplinary collaboration with departments across campus in planning and implementing programs, policies, and protocols for gender equity as well as creating microlearning content for the CW&GE social media and monthly newsletter on topics of gender justice, racial justice, disability justice, queer & trans liberation, reproductive justice, mental health, trauma, & sexual violence and harm.
Their previous work experience has included direct service HIV/STI/Hep C counseling, testing, and referral, harm reduction and opioid overdose education, and creating trainings on topics of sexual violence and harm, intimate partner violence, inclusive and comprehensive sexuality education, accessibility and universal design, and LGBTQIA+ inclusion. Tess serves on the Board of Directors for Your Empowered Sexuality (YES!), a Philly-based nonprofit that provides anti-oppressive and shame-free sexuality education through a social justice lens to people of all ages and across various forms of media.
Fun facts: Tess sings in Rise Choir Collective, a choir that aims to get people singing, living into our full selves, sharing the vision for a better world, and singing our values. Tess is originally from Wisconsin, and yes, they love cheese.
About the Resilience Session Themes
After learning skills for workplace resilience - skills that help counter burnout, help prevent secondary traumatic stress, and that help strengthen your work within your team and with those to whom you provide service - how to you sustain these skills? This Resilience Series is themed each month around one of the letters in CHIME - Connectedness, Hope & optimism, Identity, Meaning, Empowerment. Using CHIME can help you keep track of your own skills and check in with yourself on how you are doing.
Supported in part by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health
This Resiliency Series is specially offered for community members and organizations who through their work are First Responders or are involved with those affected by the Substance Use Crisis in Philadelphia. The stress of caring for others can affect our bodies and minds. This free virtual series is here to support our workplaces and community and is open to anyone.
For information on Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS), visit #TakeCarePHL at https://www.philadelphiaaces.org/sts. Visit the Events page to sign up for notifications of future events.
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