Skills for Recognizing and Recovering from Burnout
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Speaker : SARAH O'BRIEN
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When : Thursday, May 01, 2025
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Time : 01 : 00 PM EST
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Sarah Fargo O’Brien (she/her) is a dynamic and innovative trauma-informed leader and strategist. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW, LCSW-C), and has been a practicing psychotherapist specializing in Anxiety Disorders, Substance Use Disorders, and Relational/Betrayal Trauma reactions & responses for over 15 years. She has had many diverse and enriching experiences as a therapist that inform her work as a Trauma-Informed Consultant. She has been pivoting her clinical skills into other areas to reach wider audiences for impacting social change. Sarah also writes, speaks, and creates audio & video media content in efforts to reduce the stigma around mental health disorders & treatment, and to increase understanding of and accessibility to trauma-informed practices for all people and all businesses, as trauma informed care is the way of the future.
Not only is Sarah the Founder/CEO of both her psychotherapy practice and coaching/consulting business, she is the creator of the groundbreaking tool: the Trauma-Informed Crisis Response Guide. This step-by-step guide can be easily used and followed by any person, in any setting, to navigate the steps to address a mental health crisis in action. She has been featured in numerous media outlets to include Today, PsychReg, Authority Magazine, and Canvas Rebel. She is an international bestselling author, certified trauma informed life coach and consultant, and a vetted Subject Matter Expert in mental health, substance use, and trauma disorders, responses, and trauma informed leadership practices. She strives to help folks wrap their minds around trauma-informed care in both clinical and non-clinical settings and work through their barriers to access transformational change, in life, in business, in self, in leadership.
Sarah lives out her beliefs in every aspect of her work, as she employs trauma informed principles to her business practices, marketing, design, content-creation, collaboration with other professionals or companies, and her work with clients. She has a contagious energy and uses it to empower every individual she works with to be their authentic selves…and wear it proudly. Her collaborative approach creates a synergy between herself and others that provides hype for motivation, follow-through on goals, and recognizable change. Neuroscience and evidenced-based practices are the driving forces behind Sarah’s approach to understanding how people create lasting and transformational change for themselves.We will start with a definition of Burnout. We will outline the three (3) types of Burnout: Overload, Under-challenged, Neglect. We will discuss twelve (12) stages of Burnout, causes, risk factors, and symptoms. You will get tips and suggestions for how to prevent and recover from Burnout. We will review the negative impact Burnout can have on health and job performance.
Promised outcomes:
- The audience will walk away with solid knowledge about Burnout; how to define it; and the 3 main types.
- The audience will walk away with clear examples of both what causes Burnout and symptoms of Burnout.
- The audience will learn the 12 stages of Burnout.
- The audience will learn important implications of creativity and downtime at work as ways to prevent Burnout.
- The audience will walk away with clarity about the risks to health and job performance if Burnout is left untreated.
- The audience will learn ways to prevent Burnout, as well as, ways to recover from Burnout.
- They will be convicted on how they have been neglecting their own needs or finite human capacity to meet demands or get ahead.
- This talk should act as a catalyst for change through utilizing trauma informed principles and practices to create a workplace culture committed to increasing safety, and reducing harm, for every person in the organization.
Areas Covered
- Definition for Burnout
- The 3 types of Burnout
- The 12 stages of Burnout progressio
- What causes Burnout and other risk factors
- How to identify signs of Burnout
- Negative effects experienced if Burnout is left untreated
- Ways to prevent Burnout in workplace settings
- Ways to recover from Burnout
Learning Objectives
- You will learn definition for Burnout
- You will learn the 3 different types of Burnout
- You will learn about the 12 stages of Burnout and how it progresses and worsens over time
- You will be able to name at least 3 risk factors and 3 causes of Burnout
- You will be able to name at least 4 signs & symptoms of Burnout
- You will be able to name at least 2 ways to prevent Burnout at work
- You will be able to name at least 2 practices for recovering from Burnout
- You will learn why understanding and recognizing Burnout is necessary for workplace health and workforce health
- You will consider your work style and practices at work and move towards increased self-awareness to improve your ability to balance work and self-care responsibilities
- As a leader, you will consider how your inability to prioritize employee wellness in terms of creative and diverse work tasks may be causing more harm to the people that work for you/under your supervision, and how this limits potential for both the employee and the workplace outcomes/bottom line
- You will be able to see and understand the importance of increasing awareness about Burnout and allowing for more downtime for employees as a way to decrease turnover, increase performance, and increase workplace satisfaction
Who Should Attend
Leaders, managers, supervisors, C-Suite Executives, directors, sales executives, IT managers, IT support, Customer service, Social media, Marketing, Human resources, team leads. Anyone in a Leadership position, Anyone in charge of making decisions that affect others, Anyone who assigns tasks or projects. Anyone who determines job descriptions and job duties.
Why Should You Attend
Have you ever found yourself utterly exhausted and drained of all energy? Do you find yourself working harder and harder to achieve something or be successful? Or maybe you feel bored and underappreciated at work?
Are you in a healthcare or public service profession? Does the workload feel unmanageable? Do you feel unsupported by leadership at your workplace? Are you starting to get sick more often or have trouble sleeping?
Organizations and workplaces have people. People are often the most integral part of an organization’s success. Without people doing the work, producing, selling, earning, or finishing tasks, then likely the organization wouldn’t exist…or would be suffering greatly. The need for acknowledgement and acceptance that people are not mindless robots is long overdue.
Adopting trauma informed principles and practices demonstrates greater success all around for an organization. Communicating an understanding of humans, their finite capacity, and their desire to have diverse work and supportive leadership is vital in creating workplace environments where everyone can thrive.
When people are treated like the human beings that they are at work, instead of just another cog in the machine, they are healthier, happier, more satisfied at work and, therefore, more likely to stay at that workplace and perform well. And the workplace itself is healthy (not toxic).
Trauma Informed Leadership is the way of the future. Today’s workforce is more aware of their emotional and mental needs. Psychological safety is quickly becoming a non-negotiable for workers and employees of all kinds, in all industries. Burnout has been on the rise for quite some time, particularly during and following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sarah encourages her audience to understand what Burnout is and the importance of balanced workload and work tasks, express consideration for the human behind the work, and work to mitigate unrealistic expectations. She emphasizes the importance of understanding the progression of Burnout symptoms and the serious health risks Burnout can cause if left ignored and untreated.
Topic Background
Workplaces today often have unreasonable and unrealistic demands on workers; and lack an understanding and consideration for the serious effects burnout can have on a person, personally and professionally.
As a Trauma Informed Leadership Strategist & Advocate, Sarah Fargo O’Brien both sees and understands the effects of unhealthy and uncaring work environments on the human condition. As she consults and trains on leadership strategy and organizational wellness, she has found that many organizations are struggling to perform at their best. The issue is that leaders lack the trauma informed skills needed to lead without causing more harm. Without these trauma informed principles and practices any organizational setting can be toxic and unsafe. We know psychological and emotional safety are what’s needed for everyone to perform well. Leaders without emotional literacy, value for humanity, and the ability to apply trauma informed principles needed to meet the needs of today’s workforce, will, and do, cause more harm which further complicates and exacerbates any person’s ability to perform well at that organization, and ultimately effects the outcomes.
In this webinar, Sarah Fargo O’Brien explains what Burnout is in terms of professional environments. She will outline the twelve stages of Burnout, three different types of Burnout, causes of Burnout, signs and symptoms to look out for, and how to prevent and recover from Burnout. When we can lead with trauma informed principles like value for humanity and compassion, it’s more likely we can create workplaces that are healthy with assignments that make sense for the finite human capacity we all experience. Creating this type of culture benefits everyone and ultimately improves outcomes and bottom line.
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$160.00
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