Join Dr Rachel Morris of Wild Monday at this fringe event of the Cambridge Wellness Festival as she talks about:

How to ditch the super-hero and be more super-human

Optimising Performance without Sacrificing your Well-being.

In healthcare, many of us are experiencing overwhelming workloads due to unlimited patient demand, lack of funding and staff shortages. Healthcare professionals are often described as 'heroes', but when we feel squeezed on all sides, and can't give our patients the time and level of service that they need, we beat ourselves up, feel frustrated and guilty which adds to the vicious cycle of stress and overwhelm.

In this talk, we'll examine the unhelpful 'hero' mindsets we can find ourselves in, which cause us to ignore our human limits and become exhausted and burned out. We'll explore how to think differently about our professional roles and say no and set boundaries around our work, so that we can feel calmer, get control of our workload, and thrive rather than just survive at work.

Wild Monday was founded by Dr Rachel Morris – a former GP who knows what it's like to feel overwhelmed and one crisis away from burnout. Rachel has a background in medical education and worked at the University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine for several years where she taught General Practice and set up and led the 'Doctor as a Professional' Curriculum.

Whilst on a retreat in the French Alps, she found herself trying to figure out how to live up to Mary OIiver’s famous poem about living a 'wild and precious life'. Move to the mountains? Live in a remote cabin, wave goodbye to responsibilities, and be free? Frankly, that just isn’t possible when you’ve got a family, a mortgage, and a career you’ve devoted half your life to. Rachel found herself wondering how life could feel more wild, and precious, and free…even on a Monday morning, with a busy schedule, in a high-pressure role.

That question led her to develop the Shapes Toolkit - a system of tools that help professionals in high-stakes roles find choice, get inspired and connect to their real, human needs - whilst doing their best work. https://www.shapestoolkit.com/superhuman

Since then, she has gathered a team of extraordinary trainers and facilitators who share her commitment to helping brilliant people in tough roles unlock their wild, free selves WITHOUT having to leave their careers.

This is a free event, part of the Cambridge Wellness Festival, which takes place from 11am until 6pm on Tuesday, 9th September on The Green, Cambridge Biomedical Campus. Find the Cambridge Wellness Festival here on What3Words. Note that this fringe event is on the other side of the campus at the Clifford Allbutt Lecture Theatre. Find the exact location of the Clifford Allbutt Lecture Theatre here on What3Words. The closest car park is NCP Car Park 1 which is a five-minute walk from the Clifford Allbutt Lecture Theatre.

Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay

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