Grounded: A wellbeing podcast for social workers

education, courses, health, fitness, mental · EN

This podcast is designed to provide social workers with quick, actionable tools they can use to help manage the day to day stresses and strains of their job. Episodes are short so you can fit listening to them into your busy day. The first two episodes provide a foundation upon which the tools are built. They explain what empathy based stress is, how it impacts you and the nervous system science behind it. We then share 7 tools you can listen to and use wherever you are. These include:- • grounding yourself before the day even starts, and reconnecting with why you do this work in the first place • a toolkit of in the moment techniques including the butterfly hug, hand breathing, building a calm place, calling on your own "resource team," and a 60 second reset for moments of stress • closing the working day properly, so work doesn’t follow you home • and knowing when a quick tool isn't enough, and where to find more suppo