Wellbeing and Resilience for the Veterinary Profession

These lessons will help you be honest with yourself as you explore, and become aware of your thoughts, beliefs, stories, emotions and feelings. So often we subconsciously have disempowering thoughts and beliefs - being aware of them allows us the opportunity to re-author them so they are empowering. The exercises also help makes what is internal and interior (thoughts, beliefs, feelings, emotions, stories, judgements, contradictions) become external and exterior - when the words and emotions exist outside of the body and mind then there is space to truly see them - then they can transform.

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Description

Date: Available all year

Format: This self-directed online course includes recorded presentations and exercises to work through.

Topics

Module 1: Wellbeing

This module is about how to REALLY self care. Self care is ensuring that self acceptance is available so you can be aware of your thoughts, emotions and beliefs.

If we don’t actively seek to be conscious and aware of our wellbeing - then there will come a time when we are forced to pay attention to it. It might show up as:

  • Burnout
  • A mid-life crisis
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Overwhelm
  • Extreme stress
  • Feeling unsatisfied in life

We don’t have to wait until we are in crisis to learn about being emotionally, mentally and spiritually healthy. We shouldn’t wait to make emotional wellbeing a priority.

Meeting our own needs and tending to our emotional wellness means we will have MORE to give others. Self care is meeting those needs (with self kindness and self compassion). It is nurturing the connection we have with ourselves. Truth and awareness offers us the gift of deepening that connection 

If the connection with our self is a healthy functional one, then, that serves as a better foundation for supporting the relationships in our lives. Our relationships improve when we don’t reflect our issues on to others. Our relationships improve when we have a high emotional intelligence - not just with friends and family but co-workers, employers, clients, pretty much everyone you come into contact with.

We all project our inner world outwardly - so if we have a strong foundation, that means we have more calm, more clarity and more connection - and that is going to serve everyone.

The lessons include: (1) Self-care; (2) Thoughts; (3) Stories; (4) Self-awareness; and (5) Self-worth

Module 2: Resilience

This module is about emotional intelligence and how it helps increase our resilience.  

Emotional intelligence is everything that is covered in the module one, and the impact that all that has on your experience. It is also being aware of other's emotions, how things impact them and essentially their ‘humanness’. 

Resilience is knowing that challenges and difficulties are a bit of life. In the face of extreme suffering, the human spirit has an enormous capacity for resilience. Even in the most horrific circumstances, human beings find a way to not only cope and continue to exist but to also rise. That’s resilience.

Finding a way to be okay again, even when things are not ok… that’s fierce resilience. Believing that people can (and do) overcome anything EMPOWERS us to be resilient.

The lessons include: (1) Dealing with difficult emotions; (2) Stress management; (3) Acceptance and control; (4) Mindfulness; and (5) Mindset.

Author

Belinda Noyes
Belinda Noyes in her own words... I am an inspirational writer, counselor, coach, mindfulness enthusiast, relaxation therapist, thought provoker, soul seeker, mother, wife... and many other things, but mostly I am a perfectly imperfect human being who is doing her best to live a conscious and meaningful life. I live in the beautiful Wairarapa (New Zealand) with Tony, my husband of 18 years who is the local veterinarian. We have a 14 year old daughter, a 5-year old son, a one-eye dog, a large breed cat (who I think has dwarfism because he is tiny) and a stray ginger cat with a neurological condition that lives under our house. I am happily embracing middle age, unlearning everything that doesn't serve me while creating space for self kindness, compassion and acceptance - it is a daily practice, most days I succeed, but some days I don't.

Cost

NZVA and NZVNA member: free
Non-member: $100 NZD (incl. GST)

Access

This course is available via VetScholar. NZVA members and current users enter their NZVA website log in details to access their courses.

Access to this course will be notified via email once your enrolment has been processed. This may take up to 3 working days from the time of registration. 

Contact

Ata Snow | Education and Events Coordinator | vetlearn@vets.org.nz

Industry Partners

This course is made possible by the support of the NZVA Diamond Industry Partners.