Sue Johnston, MSW, LICSW brings 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist treating medical professionals and first responders experiencing work-related acute stress, and psychological trauma. She has personally tested her evidence-based, practical and solution-focused resilience and stress management strategies as a responder to multiple mass casualty events and while she worked for Doctors Without Borders/MSF, living in a war zone in Myanmar. Sue has had the opportunity to shadow OPO staff through the process of organ and tissue procurement and, for the past five years, has had the opportunity to engage in “destress” conversations with OPO and hospital staff.
What is Resiliency and How Can I Develop It?
Thursday, December 15, 2022, at 2:00pm
After a world-wide pandemic and what has felt like constant upheaval in both our professional and personal lives, how can we navigate the ongoing forces of internal and external stressors? Resiliency is defined as the capacity to prepare for, recover from and adapt in the face of stress, adversity, trauma or challenge (HeartMath definition) and in this course we will discuss what resilience could look like in donation and transplant work, identify the personal and organizational roadblocks to better resilience and explore practices for improved resiliency.
