Activities

Activity #1:

Create an analogy that explains:

• What does burnout look like for you now?

• In your analogy, what does “rest/relief” look like?

Share your analogy here: Activity 1: MIRO BOARD LINK

Activity #2:

What are some common sources of burnout?

• • Professional

  • Personal

  • Any source in any context

Share your analogy here: Activity 2: MIRO BOARD LINK

Activity #3:

Pick three people you engage with regularly. Using the emotional vocabulary wheel below, identify the primary emotion you typically feel after you engage with them.

Source: Wheel of Emotional Words, by Geoffrey Roberts

Activity #4:

Know Thyself - Metacognitive Reflection: Your Hierarchy of Needs

• • What brings you joy?

  • What gives you energy?

  • What tasks put you in a flow state?

  • What depletes your energy?

  • What kind of interactions do you try to avoid?

Share here: Activity 4: MIRO BOARD LINK

Resources:

• Designing Your New Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness -- and a New Freedom -- at Work

• Designing Your Life - Virtual Workshop Document

Activity #5:

Thinking back to the values exercise you just completed, what of those positive and not so positive things you've identified are:

• 1. In your direct control: you can do something directly to either increase or decrease something

  2. In your influence to make better: you can contribute to changing things through your words, actions, consistency, performance, behaviors, etc.

  3. Not in your control: nothing you do or say will have any impact on it

Resources:

• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

• Image below from Circles of Control

Activity #6:

Helping your whole self:

• • Self (your body/thoughts)

  • Family

  • Team

  • Organization

Share here: Activity 6: Miro board link