Statement of Purpose for program titled

The program titled “The Art of Taking Care of Yourself” has been designed by Dynamic Interactions, Inc. to introduce professionals to how “burnout” effects both personal and professional lives. Designed to introduce an accelerated culture to the effects of "burnout"

on both a personal and professional level. The purpose of this program is to introduce and demonstrate specific skills that prevent stress and maintain perspective.

In a culture addicted to adrenaline and stress we find that we lose perspective and often experience "burn out." This entertaining, informative session guides the participants in taking care of themselves. Highlights include the six stages of burnout, and setting healthy boundaries. Learn how to maintain perspective in your life and how to set the healthy boundaries that empower you as well as your family, your friends and even your peers! We need this program at our company -- 1-800-648-3367

The Art of Taking Care of Yourself is a discussion of how obligations and a loss of perspective facilitate "burned out" feelings in people. The purpose of this program is to introduce and demonstrate specific skills that prevent "burnout." Specific objectives include the following:

4. To increase awareness of how negative situations develop strength rather than weakness.

5. To have participants practice asking for their needs and getting their needs met.

a) Getting What you Need is a discussion of how it is appropriate for a healthy person to ask for basic needs. This is also a demonstration of how teachers can ask for their needs.

b) Co-Dependency in the Workplace demonstrates how all systems are disrupted by different individuals’ dysfunctional tendencies.

c) Strength from Adversity is a demonstration of how negative experiences can be expanded into positive and strengthening experiences.

d) A discussion of Self Esteem For Survivors will demonstrate to educators how they can develop, encourage and maintain a healthy self esteem. They will leave this component with a personal philosophy of what their self-image really is.

e) The presentation of “Recovery” will introduce the ongoing process of recovery.

note: The above mentioned programming will all be covered although it is subject to slight variation to meet the specific needs of the client and the participants. This programming is supplemented with appropriate activities, dissuasions and/or questions and answer periods.

Concept/Title	Objectives: participants will . . .
A Culture of Pain	point out specific examples of how lack of positives self esteem has hurt our culture / communities / schools / families.
Healthy vs. Selfish	say how a positive self concept and self care is healthy and never selfish.
Feelings Vocabulary	list a feeling vocabulary
Self Image Vocabulary	list a vocabulary that empowers a healthy self image
The Six Stages of Burnout	discuss cycles of burnout and how it has damaged effective education.
Maintaining Perspective	write why they are in education and then adjust that reason to develop an empowered perspective of the job of education.
Martyrs for a cause	discuss why it is inappropriate to "hurt" ourselves for "the good of education," and note why so many educators do. Then point out how this "pain"damages the purpose of education.
Recognizing the Little Self	say how childhood experiences dictate the way we see the world as we grow.
Creative play for adults	practice playing "childish games" and discuss their importance.
Children and their lost childhood	discuss what children are expected to be by parents, schools, communities, and media and list the damages caused by "lost childhoods."

-In their journal participants will list things, books, songs, movies and people that make them feel good about themselves.

-Participants will set physical boundaries around their work life and their home life.

- Pain Empowers	- Burnout
- Cultures / People / Families / Children of Pain	- Lost Childhood
- Self Image	- Self Esteem
- Self Concept	- Little Self
- Calm	- Martyr
- Healthy Bounders	- Lovability

During this session, after seeing it modeled several times, the Participants will practice taking car of the self esteem or themselves and practice exercises that could build their own self concept. The teachers will practice being supportive of their students and of their peers. Finally the participant will practice asking for support from a support network.

After going through the self esteem component of this workshop the teacher will be able to recognize low self esteem in their students. Once teachers recognize low self esteem teachers will have several ways to empower a positive self image in that student. The students will receive positive and meaningful encouragement from the teachers. The teachers will know when to ask for help for their students and when to ask for support from their peers. The teachers will be able to use empathy and reflective listening when communicating to the students and with their peers.

Eventually students will demonstrate pride in their school work or in their other abilities. Through simple self esteem exercises these students will be able to say at least one thing they do well.

*Day One sets the foundation for the training, therefore the second day will expand on the issues discussed on day one.