Work and Life Balance: Solutions for Time-Starved Living
Balancing work and life has become increasingly more difficult in our North American, time-starved culture. Night and day, weekdays and weekends, home and office either crowd one another, or trade places, borrowing and draining energy and time.
This seminar will help participants identify "out-of-balance-patterns" in their lives, and ways to begin reclaiming healthier living patterns.
You Will Learn:
- How to maintain a more balanced life at work and at home. This seminar will help you examine your work practices and personal habits, guiding you to a more balanced way of working and living.
Content:
- The cultural context:
The boundaries between workplace and home have become blurred as employees work longer hours and technological innovations redefine the concepts of time, space and availability. - Family life cycle passages and other crises:
Crises are inevitable in life. Some come out of the blue, while others are actually predictable. They demand a greater investment of time, and remind us that personal relationships also have deadlines. - Examining your relationship with work:
At times of stress, work can become a refuge or a trap, inviting practices that will either support our relationships or promote distance and alienation. Employers also experience consequences for promoting or ignoring employees' workplace balance. - Examining your relationship with your family:
Relationships are influenced by where you come from, what you encounter along the way, and your current stage in the family life cycle. Successful adaptation at work, as in life, rests on strengthening connections with loved ones. - Principles for balanced living:
There are no shortage of rules and advice on how to live a more balanced life. Successful balance and long lasting change comes from anchoring the rules and advice to easily understood principles. Some of these principles for work, love and life will be outlined.
Who Should Attend:
- Those who feel they are struggling in balancing the competing demands of work pressures and a meaningful personal and family life.
