PD: Setting & Maintaining Healthy Boundaries (encore)
Program Summary
What to do when everyone wants something, but there is only so much of you to go around? The modern workplace often means juggling multiple demands on your time and energy. In addition, you may feel pulls from your other roles and responsibilities, such as being a parent or family member, additional professional or volunteer work, or being in a relationship. Boundary skills are essential to helping you manage the competing demands on your time and energy.
Setting boundaries is the art and practice of what we say “yes” and “no” to. Boundaries have an integral connection to the flow of our relational lives at work as well as our personal lives. Without clarity of your own boundaries and the skills for communicating them, your life, time, and space are run by others. Here’s an opportunity to advance your knowledge and skills for the better!
This session will help you develop your boundary setting skills and help you maintain a healthier balance in your life. The workshop begins with clearly defining what boundaries are. Then we’ll move into practical ideas and application of boundary strategies for a healthy life, with a focus on applied experiences in the workplace.
What You Will Learn:
- Definitions of Boundaries: Time, Energy, Space, Needs
- The Pyramid to Creating Healthy Boundaries
- Markers of Healthy-Relating Boundaries at Work
- How to Handle 4 Classic Boundary Scenarios
How You Will Learn (online):
- Zoom meeting platform
- Breakout room discussions
- Large discussions
- Third-party engagement tools
- Slides and theory bursts
- Self-reflection
- Please note this is a participatory session, if you do not wish to participate, please sign up for the recorded version instead
Participant Expectations
If you are participating in the live Zoom session please:
- Use audio and video throughout the session
- Participate in the breakout rooms and group discussions
- Communicate technical and participation issues to Sarah through DM or email
- Let us know your accessibility requirement in advance by emailing aaps.pd@ubc.ca
- Practice patience, inclusivity, and confidentiality with what you are sharing and what is shared in the session
- Be open to considering and trying the practices and processes during the session
- The live Zoom session will not be recorded
Audience
This session is open to all AAPS members. For members who have taken this session before, some of the content has been updated, and you are invited to attend as a refresher. Not sure if this session is right for you? Please email aaps.pd@ubc.ca.
About Your Facilitator
Alex is a senior psychotherapist and professional educator devoted to the question of how meaningful choices affect our health and wellbeing.
A passionate clinician and speaker with over 25 years of experience in the field, Alex has been an instructor at many leading educational institutions, including SFU, UBC Robson Square, BCIT, City University, Vancouver Community College, and Mount Royal University.
As an organizational consultant and educator on mental health issues, he has conducted training sessions for organizations throughout Western Canada on topics relating to mental health, trauma, and employee well-being, including extensive work with the Canadian Coast Guard, the RCMP and other first-responder groups, health-care and front-line social service agencies.
He has also worked extensively with UBC and other organizations for many years; his specialized workshops on procrastination and perfectionism have been attended by well over 3,000 workshop attendees.
Alex lives and works in Port Moody, Greater Vancouver, where he runs a full-time clinical practice, providing depth-based individual and couple psychotherapy services.
About Your Host
AAPS is your professional association and labour relations organization. Along with our work negotiating your workplace terms and conditions and supporting you individually with employment contract-related questions and issues, we also aim to provide AAPS membership with educational opportunities through the AAPS Professional Development Program.
The program is designed to give members a chance to connect with colleagues from different departments, units, and locations, share experiences, and support one another. The program also gives time and space to consider the evolution of the workplace and adapt to changing work environments and career needs. We host topics in areas such as management and leadership, interpersonal skills, workplace skills, personal development, advocacy, and organized labour. We use a mixture of in-person, live online, and asynchronous learning structures.
The AAPS PD Program is staffed by AAPS Member Services Officer for Professional Development, Sarah Muff. Sarah oversees the design, delivery, and administration of the program, as well as being the onsite program manager. She works in consultation with external facilitators, colleagues, and the AAPS Board of Directors to develop and adapt relevant workplace content to meet the needs of AAPS members.
Questions about this session, the program, or suggestions for future topics and facilitators? Please email aaps.pd@ubc.ca.
Registration
These live and participatory Zoom sessions will run from 10:00am-12:00pm. Please ensure you are available to attend the full session and actively participate prior to registering for the live Zoom.
1. November 22, 2023: Perfectionism: A Way Forward: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqdeihrTMrHd3Kxx8PnKRID9jJq748zm1w
2. November 29, 2023: Setting and Maintaining Healthy Boundaries: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqcO-srz4iE9XbjEwLPljSoGmYxo4rpFG-
3. December 6, 2023:Listening to Connect: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvcO6tqTosG9IdnHCCW5U07kPjqJuLQh9C
4. Register here for any of the recorded versions of this series