UCSF Emotional Well-Being in 2021 Webinar Series

Emotional Well-Being in 2021 Webinar Series

By popular demand, we are launching a second series of webinars based on last year’s Emotional Well-Being During the COVID-19 Crisis for Health Care Providers series. As before, these sessions will be moderated by Vice Chair for Adult Psychology Elissa Epel, PhD, and feature experts sharing insights on how we can reduce stress and trauma in our health care systems and communities during the COVID-19 outbreak and other crises. We will also be updating the UCSF Coping Resources website as we travel together through this year and identify unmet needs

This webinar series is co-sponsored by the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and UCSF Office of Alumni Relations with support from John McCoy and Nicholas Roznovsky.

April 15 – Building Institutional and Personal Resilience

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Speakers

• Maga Jackson-Triche, MD, MSHS, Health Sciences Clinical Professor, UCSF Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
• Christine Mangurian, MD, MAS, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Vice Chair for Diversity and Health Equity, UCSF Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
• Robert Rodriguez, MD, Professor, UCSF Dept. of Emergency Medicine

A discussion on the mental health challenges—including those of health care providers—and lessons learned from UCSF COPE, with a focus on building institutional resources for preparedness for future challenges.

Resources

• Balancing Act: Mom and Health Care Provider (video)

• Manager Tips: Build a Healthy Team During Stressful Periods

• Breath of Life Blessing Practice (video)

• Breathing: A Fundamental Aspect of Stress reduction (video)

• Anxiety, Burnout, PTSD, and the Effect of COVID Testing on Health Care Workers

May 13 – Pandemic Transitions: From Collective Grief to Joy

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Speakers

• Esther Perel, MFT, family therapist
• Jack Saul, PhD, trauma therapist and leader of communal resilience movements

In the wake of the pandemic and systemic social injustice, we are facing vast collective grief. Renowned therapists Jack Saul and Esther Perel will discuss ways to witness and move through grief, using creative expression, toward experiencing fresh joy and purpose in our new world.

Resources

• Jack Saul on Amanpour & Co.: “What is Communal Trauma and Healing?” (video)

• New York Times: “What Loss Looks Like”

• Workshop: “How To Live With Prolonged Uncertainty and Grief” (video)

• What Death Can Teach Us About Life

• Why Eroticism Should Be Part of Your Self-Care Plan

• Create an End-of-Life Roadmap

June 3 – Pandemic Burnout and Regeneration for Our New World: One Year Later

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Speakers

• Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, Professor Emeritus, UCSF Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
• Eve Ekman, PhD, teaching faculty, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
• Trudy Goodman, PhD, founder, InsightLA
• Jack Kornfield, PhD, founder, Spirit Rock Meditation Center
• Dan Siegel, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine; founder, Mindsight Institute

A panel of leaders in mental health and science will discuss combatting pandemic fatigue, share short meditations, and revisit their previous discussion on personal and communal lessons and hopes for rejuvenating our lives, science and healthcare, self-care, and our earth.

Resources

• Dan Siegel: Free session showing the integrative movements (video)

• Eve Ekman’s Meditations for the Heart (audio)

• Eve Ekman on UCTV: “Cultivating Emotion Awareness and Fierce Compassion” (video)

• Elizabeth Blackburn’s TED Talk: “The Science of Cells That Never Get Old” (video)

• Coping with work burnout: 5 tips for handling pandemic fatigue

• Wisdom 2.0 Mindfulness Summit: “Interview with Trudy Goodman and Jack Kornfield” (video)

• Additional resources from Trudy Goodman: Meditations (audio) | Dharma Talks (video)

• Additional resources from Jack Kornfield: Meditations (video) | Dharma Talks (video)

• Dan Siegel’s Comprehensive Interpersonal Neurobiology Course

July 1 – Anti-Racism and Building an Inclusive Culture

Speakers

• Rhonda Magee, JD, Professor of Law, University of San Francisco
• Michelle Porche, EdD, Associate Adjunct Professor, UCSF Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
• Matthew State, MD, PhD, Oberndorf Family Distinguished Professor and Chair, UCSF Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

The race equity movement has left us with greater awareness of the urgent need for changes in the way we interact and run our businesses and institutions. This webinar will feature a frank discussion on what one psychiatry department has done to address interpersonal and systemic racism, as well as insight from an expert on a compassion-based approach for insightfully seeing and discussing race, and being actively anti-racist.

Resources

• Book by Rhonda Magee: “The Inner Work of Racial Justice”

• Mindful of Race Training Program by Ruth King

• UCSF Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Black Study Group Report – We are using our own department as an example and are sharing our in-depth task force on hearing Black voices and developing a plan for change. This report will be discussed during the presentation and we encourage you to take a look at the four-page executive summary.

August 5 – Well-Being of Youth and Young Adults

Speakers

• Joyce Dorado, PhD, Health Sciences Clinical Professor, UCSF Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; director, UCSF Health Environments and Response to Trauma in Schools (HEARTS)
• Julie Lythcott-Haims, JD, MFA, New York Times best-selling author
• Suniya Luthar, PhD, Professor Emerita, Columbia University; founder, Authentic Connections
• Moderator: Dan Siegel, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine; founder, Mindsight Institute

Parenting and educating young people as they transition back to in-person learning and jobs this year will likely be both joyful and challenging. A panel of experts will discuss approaches that parents, caregivers, and educators can take to support youth, including strategies to promote resilience, resourcefulness, and creating environments that facilitate a sense of belonging and agency—especially for youth of color. They will also discuss the risks of excessive pressure to succeed and countering helicopter parenting, as well as ways that schools can implement trauma-informed, equity-promoting approaches that foster wellness and healing justice.

Resources

• Julie Lythcott-Haims’ TED Talk: “How to Raise Successful Kids—Without Over-parenting” (video)

• Book by Julie Lythcott-Haims: “How to Raise an Adult”

• Julie Lythcott-Haims’ Four Parenting Tips to Raise an Adult

• Dan Siegel’s books on parenting

• UCSF HEARTS (Healthy Environments and Response to Trauma in Schools)

• Article on UCSF HEARTS from the book “Assessing and Treating Youth Exposed to Traumatic Stress”

• Trauma-Informed Principles Applied to Education, Child Welfare, and Public Health (video)