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ONLINE: Nonprofit Innovation Summit: Creating Sustainable Cultures of Wellbeing

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Event Details

Wednesday, November 20, 2024
10:00AM – 3:00PM PT
Online via Zoom – This webinar will be recorded

Nonprofit Innovation Summit: Creating Sustainable Cultures of Wellbeing

Join us for our next Nonprofit Innovation Summit – Creating Sustainable Cultures of Wellbeing. This interactive virtual Summit will provide space to reflect on what you need as an individual and team to create a sustainable culture of wellbeing. We’ll explore practical strategies and outline a plan to put those strategies into action.

Learn about the latest research and trends on how the evolving workplace is affecting our wellbeing and organizational impact. Discover the essentials for creating a sustainable workplace wellbeing action plan. Delve into practices for navigating overwhelm, anxiety, and change. And invite your team to join you in this work!

Morning Keynote

How to Create a Culture of Well-Being for Yourself, Team, and Organization While Changing the World with Meico Marquette Whitlock

As a nonprofit professional, you are driven to do more and more, often with fewer and fewer resources. But there comes a breaking point where your passion dwindles under the weight of pressure, the mission suffers, and you feel like you love the work more than it loves you back.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. Creating a healthier workplace requires a long-term commitment to transforming burnout culture, where overwhelm is an accepted norm, to a culture that supports our whole health and fuels us to do good sustainably for the long haul. It’s about more than occasional gift cards, branded swag, and happy hours.

This interactive session will provide a space to reflect on what you need as an individual and a team to create a sustainable culture of well-being while well-doing. We’ll explore practical strategies and outline a plan for putting them into action so you can thrive in the evolving workplace without self-sacrifice.

Learning Intentions:

  • Review the latest research and trends on how the evolving workplace is impacting our well-being and organizational impact
  • Explore practices for taking care of yourself and your team while making an impact
  • Learn the essentials for creating a sustainable workplace well-being action plan

Afternoon Session

Navigating Overwhelm, Anxiety, and Change with Erick Seelbach

Overwhelm. Anxiety. Stress. Change. All of these can keep us from focusing on what we need to, and if unaddressed, can have a significant impact on our mental, spiritual, and physical health. Fortunately, there are several practical things we can do to navigate these.

Following the rhythms and cycles of nature, fall is a time of transition and change as we harvest wisdom and prepare for winter’s looking inward, introspection, and reflection. During fall, we focus on personal growth, letting go of the past, and embracing change. It’s a great time to learn to strengthen and trust our intuition, connect our minds and hearts, and let our authenticity guide us.

In this session, we’ll work through a variety of aspects of the navigation process, and we’ll leave with some ideas of things to do or areas for further exploration. Come with an open mind and heart.

Together we’ll explore how to:

  • Identify your values, support systems, and self-care activities so that you can keep yourself grounded and centered throughout the change process;
  • Recognize what you have control over and what you don’t so that you can spend your energy on what will really get you through the change;
  • Exercise your intuition so that any change you make is in alignment with who you are and who you want to be;
  • Identify things that trigger anxiety and overwhelm for you so that you can be prepared for whatever shows up;
  • Understand the ways that anxiety and overwhelm show up for you so that you can more quickly recognize when they are impacting you;
  • Learn methods for reducing anxiety and overwhelm that resonate with you so that you can be more proactive in working through them.

 

Agenda

10:00AM -12:00PM PT – Morning Keynote: How to Create a Culture of Well-Being for Yourself, Team, and Organization While Changing the World with Meico Marquette Whitlock

12:00PM – 1:00PM PT – Lunch break

1:00PM – 3:00PM PT – Afternoon Session: Navigating Overwhelm, Anxiety, and Change with Erick Seelbach

Cost

$20 for NAWA Members – Find the coupon code on the Member Resources page.

$40 for Not-yet-Members. Interested in becoming a NAWA Member? Learn more about membership here.

Cost should not be a barrier to participate. Please  if you have any requests, concerns, or questions regarding the cost of this workshop.

Find NAWA’s cancellation and refund policies here.

Who Should Attend

Organizational change work requires engagement from all parts of an organization. For this reason, we strongly encourage teams of board and staff to attend and learn together.

Recording

Registrants will receive the webinar recording by email after the event and have access to the recording for 90 days after the webinar.  If there are breakout rooms, they will not be included in the recording. If you can’t attend the training but you are interested in learning about this topic, please register so we can send you the recording and materials.

Accessibility

Captioning: We will have automated captioning enabled.

Interpretation: Please indicate during registration if you have an interpretation request. Typically, we need at least two weeks in order to schedule an interpreter.

Visual Descriptions: Presenters will include visual descriptions of themselves and the slides to give a person who is low-vision, blind, or calling in without video a sense of space and place.

If you have additional accessibility requests, please let us know when you register.

About the Speakers

Meico Marquette Whitlock (he/him), Founder and CEO, Mindful Techie |
Workplace Being Strategist & Trainer

Meico WhitlockMeico is a workplace well-being strategist who helps mission-driven professionals prioritize their well-being so they can elevate their well-doing. During his previous career in the tech, nonprofit, and government sectors, he experienced more than his fair share of burnout and overwhelm in the name of making a difference. As a recovering workaholic, he uses what he’s learned to help changemakers make an impact without self-sacrifice.

He is the author of the Amazon-bestseller How to Thrive When Work Doesn’t Love You Back: A Practical Guide for Taking Care of Yourself While Changing The World and The Intention Planner: A Daily Planner & Structured Accountability System for Changemakers, and a certified trauma-informed mindfulness teacher. He partners with mission-driven professionals to create strategies and deliver programs that scale impact while sustaining the right balance between life, work, and technology in today’s changing world.

He has worked with organizations such as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Cigna, and Greenpeace, and has been a featured speaker on ABC News, Fox 5, and Radio One. He’s also a former triathlete, loves salsa dancing, and makes the world’s best vegan chili! 🙂

He holds an M.S. in Information Science from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in Political Science and Spanish from Morehouse College.

 

Erick Seelbach (she/her)

Erick graduated from The Evergreen State College with a Master of Arts in Teaching. For over 20 years, her work in HIV led her to many different corners of volunteer, nonprofit and government settings: as a participant inErick Seelbach HIV vaccine and prevention research studies, a leader of various research community advisory boards, a graduate of several leadership institutes, an outreach worker, a technical assistance and training provider, a grant writer and reviewer, a conference planner, and more. Erick served as the Executive Director of PCAF (Pierce County AIDS Foundation), chaired the Pierce County Human Services Coalition, and served as the President of the Board and later as the Interim Executive Director of the Nonprofit Association of Washington. Currently Erick owns and operates The Liminal Mirror, a coaching and consulting business, and works with Third Sector Company on nonprofit leadership continuity solutions.

 

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