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We Survive Best in Healing Connection: Addressing our Loneliness Epidemic

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Description

Brain health is a foundational component of human health and wellness. Just like breathing, we constantly feel and experience emotions and our experiences directly affect our work, clients, families, health, and communities. However, we are not biologically built to navigate these experiences alone. The U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, outlines that the quality of our relationships with others impacts our physical, mental and behavioral well-being in his loneliness advisory (Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation, 2023). In a nation where trends are showing social connection is decreasing and social isolation is increasing, it is vital that we intentionally build quality connections with our families, friends, communities, our purpose, and with ourselves. When we intentionally improve these connections, we can reduce feelings of loneliness and isolation while increasing our resilience. Our connections make us stronger, and together, we can face all that life brings our way. 

 

Be Well Initiatives at Burrell Behavioral Health is a brain health and wellness program caring for employees and our community through consistent practice and resiliency building. In this session, the Be Well Initiatives team will walk participants through the science behind quality connection, invite participants to engage in evidence-based strategies and provide tangible, experiential and practical tools to begin increasing quality connections together, in community. Since 2020, Be Well Initiatives has been engineering and providing a model of brain healthcare that encompasses inclusivity, trauma-informed care and strategies for navigating the on-going impacts of the pandemic on our lives. Society needs and deserves brain health care and belonging in new and different ways. Let’s Be Well together!

Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to increase understanding of the impacts of loneliness on overall health and learn practical ways to improve connection with others and ourselves.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify at least three risks of loneliness.

  • Identify at least three benefits of quality connection to our physical, emotional and behavioral well-being.

  • Describe and personally assess four categories of connection.

  • Identify at least 2 ways to intentionally improve connection to self, others and purpose/spirituality.

References

  • Allen, K-A., Kern, M. L., Rozek, C. S., McInerney, D. M., & Slavich, G. M. (2021). Belonging: a review of conceptual issues, an integrative framework, and directions for future research. Australian Journal of Psychology, 73(1), 87-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/00049530.2021.1883409

  • Boothby, E. J., Clark, M. S., & Bargh, J. A. (2014). Shared Experiences Are Amplified. Psychological Science, 25(12), 2209–2216. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614551162

  • Murthy, V. (2023). Our epidemic of loneliness and isolation: The U.S. Surgeon General's advisory on the healing effects of social connection and community. HHS.gov https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-social-connection-advisory.pdf

  • Nitschke, J. P., Forbes, P. A. G., Ali, N., Cutler, J., Apps, M. A. J., Lockwood, P. L., & Lamm, C. (2020). Resilience during uncertainty? Greater social connectedness during COVID‐19 lockdown is associated with reduced distress and fatigue. British Journal of Health Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12485

  • Setti, I., Lourel, M., & Argentero, P. (2016). The role of affective commitment and perceived social support in protecting emergency workers against burnout and vicarious traumatization. Traumatology, 22(4), 261–270. https://doi.org/10.1037/trm0000072

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by Exchange Events. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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Bailey Pyle, LPC

Bailey Pyle, LPC is the Director of Be Well Initiatives, at Burrell Behavioral Health. She has over 12 years of experience in the mental health field with a variety of populations across different environments. With a Master’s degree in Art Therapy Counseling, Bailey integrates creative expression with evidence-based practices to focus on brain wellness, establishing positive relationships, and navigating the stress life presents. Bailey has a passion for whole-wellness and community wellness as a necessary component of personal and community health. Bailey has been providing Be Well Experiences and trainings to the community, within organizations and at conferences since March 2020, helping others put brain science into action by using evidenced-based practices and creativity to foster connection, growth and healing.  Bailey has a passion for whole-wellness as a necessary component of individual and community health.   

Nia Howard, NCC

Nia Howard serves as Program and Engagement Leader for Be Well Initiatives. She is a Qualified Mental Health Professional, and served as a Professional Development Trainer, leading new hire and community wide trainings on a regular basis. Prior to her position with Be Well Nia served as Support Care Pathway Champion for the School Based Services Department at Burrell and is the Co-Provider for the Springfield Public Schools Partnership at the RISE Program.  Nia leads Children First , Court appointed parenting class, and earned her Masters of Science in Guidance and Counseling with added Special education emphasis from Missouri State University in Springfield Missouri. She is a mother to one awesome son, and involved in multiple ways in our community and is currently training for her second ever half Marathon on Zion Canyon Utah. 

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