Cultivate Your Resilience with Customized Self-Care Planning

Working in the humanitarian sector carries with it a unique set of stressors that can be difficult to anticipate. Time away from family and friends, high workloads, urgent needs, and frequent contact with human suffering can all take a toll on individual wellbeing. Specific planning for your self-care is a proven way to ensure that you remain resilient in the face of personal and workplace challenges. To facilitate these outcomes, the Konterra Employee Assistance and Resilience Program is there to assist staff to plan for their resilience through the creation of a customized self-care plan.

To facilitate these outcomes, the KonTerra Employee Assistance and Resilience Program (EARP) is there to assist staff with up to 3 sessions in planning for resilience through the creation of a customized resilience plan.

When can you use this service?

This service can be used at any time, but can be particularly helpful in the following periods:

• Before a deployment
• When starting new role
• When entering a high work intensity period
• When feeling fatigue or burnout
• Before returning home from deployment

How can you benefit from customized self-care (resilience) planning?

In your resilience planning session(s), your Konterra counselor will offer personalized guidance that could include the following:

• Assessing your current strengths and vulnerabilities to stress
• Discussing personal concerns or needs
• Identifying your anticipated stress response
• Exploring your personal health and wellbeing habits
• Sharing proven techniques for sustaining emotional wellbeing while delivering humanitarian services
• Creating a personalized self-care plan that works for you

How can you access this service?

Setting up your personal resilience planning session is easy. Just contact Konterra through any of the below methods. In this initial communication, indicate that you would like to make a personal resilience plan, share the best date/time for your session, if you have a preferred gender of counselor, and your preferred language. Konterra will be back in touch within 24 hours to schedule an appointment.