Tag: EAP Counselling

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Career and Workplace Counselling: – Recovering from and/or Preventing Burnout

In our previous blog “What is Burnout“? we defined the term Burnout and identified the 12 phases of burnout as coined by Herbert Freudenberger and Gail North in the 1970’s.

Today, one wishes to address the readers concern, that is if we are feeling the effect of burnout what exactly can we do to recover from it or better yet prevent it from occurring in the first place?

Great question here are 8 key strategies to consider: – Continue reading “Career and Workplace Counselling: – Recovering from and/or Preventing Burnout”

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Workplace Counselling: – Workplace Bullying, Abuse, Intimidation & Harrassment Action Plan

At some point in our career we have either directly experienced or know of someone who has experienced Workplace Bullying, Abuse, Intimidation and/or Harrassment.

But how do you help someone going through this difficult period.

Simply follow Blu Ripples® 5 Step action plan and you will be on the way to resolving the presenting concern.

5 Step Action Plan to Address Workplace Bullying, Abuse, Intimidation and Harrassment Continue reading “Workplace Counselling: – Workplace Bullying, Abuse, Intimidation & Harrassment Action Plan”

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Applied Suicide Intervention Training (ASIT) Seminar

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Blu Ripples is proud to announce that Katherine recently undertook and completed the renowned Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIT) program through Living Works as part of her commitment to her ongoing continual professional development (CPD).

Covering such areas as attitudes to suicide, types of prevention, addressing the concerns of persons at risk, exploring invitations to help, developing a safe plan and reviewing resources; Katherine believes this would be a worthwhile course for all health professionals and members of the general public to undertake.

Suicide claims too many lives each year; as a community – let’s do something about it.

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Career and Workplace Counselling: Coping with the Grief and Loss associated with Employment Termination, Separation and Redundancy

Career Counselling - Coping with the grief and loss associated with Employment Termination, separation and redundancy

How we lose a job is not really as important as how we cope with the loss.

Katherine Foster, Blu Ripples Founder, 18 Sept 2010

CAREER COUNSELLING – COPING WITH EMPLOYMENT TERMINATION, SEPARATION AND REDUNDANCY

A long time ago, probably close to 16 years ago, a wise individual shared with me an eloquent acronym for grief and loss associated with loss in general however one perceives it to be pertinent in this situation. Continue reading “Career and Workplace Counselling: Coping with the Grief and Loss associated with Employment Termination, Separation and Redundancy”