The Employee Assistance Program is now offering two popular workshops in a brief, online format. View these workshops at your convenience:

• Resilience workshop (15:48 minutes) – You will be asked to refer to this resiliency quiz during the presentation
• Stress Management (part 1) workshop (8:24 minutes)

EAP offers a variety of workshops to departments and employee groups of our contract organizations upon request. Each workshop can be tailored to departmental needs.  Please call Kate Roth, EAP manager, at 612-672-4082 to schedule a workshop.

Stress Management (25 to 90 minutes)
Objectives: List problematic stress symptoms, identify the three categories of stress management strategies, list five stress management activities and provide an example of talking your way out of stress.

Change, Stress and the Whole Crazy Thing (60 minutes)
Objectives: Identify the impact of change on teams and individuals; learn ways to deal with current and upcoming changes; identify ways to manage stress at home and work.

Conflict and Change (for leaders) (90 minutes)
Objectives: Learn two conflict resolution models, learn a model for change, identify ways to support staff through change, gain a personal understanding of strengths with change and conflict.

Conflict Resolution (60 to 120 minutes)
Objectives: Define conflict and conflict resolution, list three of the five types of conflict, list three strategies for resolving conflict and list three behaviors the help prevent or resolve conflict.

Anxiety (60 minutes)
Objectives: List four symptoms of anxiety, describe the difference between the feeling of anxiety and the medical diagnosis of anxiety and identify three coping strategies to manage anxiety.

Depression (60 minutes)
Objectives: Identify three symptoms of depression, list two signs of depression that indicate medical treatment is advised and list three strategies for preventing or managing depressive symptoms.  

Every Little Bit Counts (financial session) (60 minutes)
Objectives: Learn to track where your money goes; learn a basic budgeting plan; discuss the emotional barriers to money management.

Banishing the Winter Blues (30 to 60 minutes)
Objectives: List three symptoms of seasonal affective disorder, identify the types of treatment for depressive disorders and list five self-help strategies for offsetting the winter blues.

Resilience in the Workplace
Objectives: Identify the building blocks of resiliency, assess your current resiliency quotient, identify two areas of resiliency you want to strengthen and develop a plan for strengthening these areas. 

Enjoying the Holidays (30 minutes)
Objectives: List two sources of holiday stress, provide an example of using self-talk to manage holiday stress, list three strategies to enjoy the holidays.

Riding the Wave of Change (60 to 90 minutes)
Objectives: Identify three dynamics of change, list two change concepts difficult for you to handle and develop three strategies for dealing with difficult changes.

Respectful Workplace (60 minutes)
Objectives: Identify behaviors on the continuum of violence, commit to three behaviors that support a respectful workplace and learn a process for talking respectfully about an issue.

Self-Esteem (60 minutes)
Objectives: Identify ways self-esteem affects you, identify your strengths and challenges with self-esteem and list two ways to improve your self-esteem.

Caring for the Caregiver
Objectives: Identify barriers to self-care, identify five strategies to increase resilience, list three behaviors that will increase your joy/passion and make a commitment to self.

Please be advised that EAP services are only available to our contract organizations.