Self-Care Fundamentals

Self-awareness is a core component of optimising health and wellbeing. It is important to have clarity around personal needs, preferences, boundaries and limits to better manage daily stressors and life demands. Whether financial, relational, work-based or environmental – it is vital to recognise how common stressors can impact on physical and mental health if left unchecked. This training invites attendees to take an opportunity to reflect on their current circumstances and identify dimensions of self-care that require most urgent attention.

It provides a framework that can assist attendees to prioritise aspects of self-care that are most important for them individually. Oftentimes self-care can gravitate into becoming another ‘to do’ list, leaving people burdened by a sense of needing to do specific things in order to be healthy, but instead this training invites a significant mental reframing of self-care, and advocates for sincere curiositiy, inviting the individual to explore new and enjoyable ways of taking care of personal needs.

• Consider current position on the health spectrum
• Understand signs and symptoms of burnout and ‘sub-health’
• Apply a simple framework to subectively assess satisfaction with self-care beahviours
• Explore current guidelines to improve wellbeing across multiple domains
• Understand simple behaviour change strategies to build new healthier habits

Any member with an interest in learning various tools and techniques on how we can look after ourselves to ensure positive wellbeing.