Adding on to our Volunteer Professional Development Series, Special Olympics BC is thrilled to offer a virtual workshop for volunteers on Pandemic Problems: Keeping Positive COVID through facilitated Dr. Laura Farres. Please register here.
Date
Monday April 19th at 6:00 p.m. PST (7:00 p.m. MST)
AGENDA
Please join Dr. Laura Farres, a Registered Clinical Counsellor, Mental Performance Consultant for several sport organizations and a Chartered Professional coach. Dr. Farres has worked with Special Olympics BC athletes and coaches for several years, providing them with the skills to work through different challenges. As we have all experienced and navigated this pandemic differently she has developed a workshop around the following areas to support our SOBC volunteers working with our athletes. Areas she will be touching on are:
- Recognizing the affects that isolation & disconnection can have on individuals mental & physical well-being
- Recognizing pandemic related symptoms: things that could be noticed through conversation or written messages that someone is really struggling
- How to reach out and connect with someone & it be effective even if it can’t be in-person
- Ideas on how to motivate post-pandemic when motivation may be hard to find again!
CONTACT
If you have any questions, please contact SOBC Program Manager Michelle Cruickshank by email at mcruickshank@specialolympics.bc.ca or by phone at 250 208 5402.
