Danger of Burnout and Anxiety: What are the social stressors and what to do about them?
This workshop covers three main areas of burnout: workplace burnout; activist burnout and problem based or life burnout and the social stressors that lead to the danger of burnout. It covers the topic in general but also gives examples for disabled people and other marginalized groups. It also engages with how these social stressors influence anxiety as in: feelings of tension and worried thoughts and concerns that could lead to the reaction that people might avoid doing certain things due to that worry https://www.apa.org/topics/anxiety.
This workshop does not cover personal strategies to minimize the danger of being burned out or experiencing anxiety but focuses on the identification of social stressors and what to do about them to decrease the danger of burnout and anxiety.
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Knowledge Levels
Beginner, no background required
Duration
1 hour, 30 minutes
Audience
Open to campus community: students, senior/executive leaders, faculty, and staff
Core understanding of EDI
- Attitudinal accessibility
- Anti-Disablism
- What is burnout
- Workplace burnout
- Various ability studies concepts linked to workplace burnout
- Data showcasing workplace stressors of disabled people/people with disabilities
- Activist burnout
- Problem based and Life burnout related to marginalized groups
- Problem based and Life burnout of disabled people/people with disabilities, disablism burnout
- Anxiety linked to problem /life burnout
- Will use anonymous Yes/No zoom polls throughout
New learnings
- Explore different areas of potential burnout and anxiety
- Workplace burnout
- Activist burnout
- Problem based or Life burnout
- Identify different social stressors of burnout and anxiety and explore what one could do about them
- Learn about how ability expectation, ableism and disablism is linked to the different areas of burnout and anxiety
- Apply your learning to think what this means for EDI work
Facilitator
Dr. Gregor Wolbring (he/him)
Dr. Gregor Wolbring is a tenured full Professor at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine, Program in Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies. He is presently also a member of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe, Germany and a senior fellow of the Institute for Science, Policy and Society, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Dr. Wolbring defines himself as an ability studies, disability studies, sustainability studies and science and technology governance studies scholar and wheelchair user since his youth.
It’s our collective responsibility to create a more equitable and inclusive UCaglary and we all have an important role to play by learning and unlearning.
Dr. Malinda S. Smith, PhD
Vice Provost (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) and Associate Vice-President Research (EDI)