Nourishing the Roots of Resilience: Strengthening Your Core, Re-Vitalizing

512 29-1/2 Road,Grand Junction CO 81504

13 September, 2021

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CEC presents "Nourishing the Roots of Resilience: Strengthening Your Core, Re-Vitalizing Connections", both personally and professionally. Do you know someone who keeps on keeping on, no matter what life throws at them? How do they continue to thrive, flourish, and grow even stronger as they overcome the obstacles they face? The answer is resilience, and yes, we can learn to be resilient. Starting September 13, 2021, the Counseling & Education Center (CEC) will be hosting an eight-session program titled Nourishing the Roots of Resilience: Strengthening Your Core, Re-Vitalizing Connections which aims to help people develop mental strength, overcome barriers, and reconnect socially in a more resilient way - personally and professionally. The sessions will be held bi-weekly, from 1pm to 4pm, at the Mesa County Workplace Center in Grand Junction. Registration fee includes the instructional sessions, one individual coaching session, program materials, and snacks. The program is sponsored by Hilltop, United Way Mesa County, Western Colorado Community Foundation, and Mesa County Public Health and in partnership with St. Mary's Medical Center and Roice-Hurst Humane Society. For registration, fee and program details, please call 970-243-9539. Given the recent global events, the goal of the program is to help people who are facing challenges of the past year that may have impacted their physical, economic, social and psychological well-being. Attendees will be presented with knowledge, materials and in-class activities to help them better discern where they currently stand in terms of their own physical and mental health and social interactions, and determine which steps to take to help build their resilience –and ultimately thrive through current and future challenges. The ADP Research Institute’s “Global Workplace Study 2020” has shown that people are experiencing lower levels of resilience because many are not choosing their current job but instead are forced to take it out of necessity. The study also found that people on the job less than a year are now less likely to be highly resilient, and people who took a new job during COVID-19 even less so. Workers who have taken on new roles during the pandemic were two times less likely to be fully resilient than others. These findings have troubling implications, especially since many of these issues, such as the lack of cohesion in certain industries with the public and the disconnect between management and front-line workers, predate the pandemic and have grown even more prevalent since it began. With the pandemic, changes in work, and social strain testing everyone’s resilience daily, the Nourishing the Roots of Resilience: Strengthening Your Core, Re-Vitalizing Connections program will address the trends that CEC, community organizations and local businesses are witnessing by building the resilience of ourselves, our friends, family, co-workers, employees, and community leading to better staff retention, improved relationships, and better overall community health. For registration, fee and program details, please visit www.cecwecare or call 970-243-9539. Thank you for sharing your work with not only us but the world. We would like express our appreciation to the talented Self-Empowerment Author, Musician and Artist Cherie Roe Dirksen for granting the Counseling & Education Center (CEC) permission to use of her "Sitting Under a Tree" image to help promote the CEC's resilience training program taking place in the Fall of 2021. Cheri Roe Dirksen has made something so deeply personal and then presents it to the world with an open, resilient heart. She has two weekly blog slots on her site, one is devoted to stepping into you power and the other caters for creativity and the artistic process — www.cherieroedirksen.com. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.