Signature Keynote for Emerging and Seasoned Leaders. In community-based programs it is often the norm to experience constant stress and be creeping towards burnout. It’s time to reject this outdated mindset that plagues the social sector. Instead, we must equip existing and emerging leaders with personal development tools so they can continue to be effective in their roles. This keynote will promote the use of a personalized self-care plan as a tool to manage stress, avoid burnout, and build personal resilience. Learning Objectives Identify the four most common issues leading to sustained stress in the social sector. Employ a new mindset that helps people sustain careers in community based programs. Apply the 5-Step “Prioritize You” formula to build or revise a personalized self-care plan.

1. More Than
Massages: Self-care
As Tool for Personal
Resilience
by Aisha Moore

2. Objectives
➔ Identify
the four most common issues leading
to sustained stress in the social sector.
➔ Employ
a new mindset that helps people
sustain careers in community based
programs.
➔ Apply
the 5-Step “Prioritize You” formula to
build or revise a personalized self-care
plan.

3. How many of
you have
leased a car?
RAISE
YOUR
HAND

4. How does a
lease contract
work?
Interesting Fact
In 2016, car
leases hit an all
time high.

6. Let’s think
about a
different
car?
CLOSE
YOUR
EYES

7. HOOPTIE

8. How are you treating
yourself?

9. Meet 2011 Aisha.
Deputy director level position at a
public health consulting firm for a few
years.
She was board president of one
organization and sat on the board of
three others.
Married dog mom.

10. 2013 Aisha Meets
Pepto Bismol.
Nausea
Heartburn
Indigestion
Upset stomach
And more...
Rapid Weight Loss
High Blood Pressure
Panic Attacks
Irritability

11. Burnout
Exhaustion (lost energy),
Cynicism (lost enthusiasm), and
Inefficacy (lost self-confidence and
capacity to perform)
Valcour, Monique. “Beating Burnout” Harvard Business Review. November 2016.
https://hbr.org/2016/11/beating-burnout . Accessed May 2018.

12. Personal
Craziness Index
Craziness first manifests itself in
routine, simple behaviors that
support lifestyle balance.
“...we can be caught up in issues of
cosmic importance and not notice
that our checking account is
overdrawn. If our checking account
is overdrawn, we are probably out of
socks as well, because we have not
done our laundry. If this pattern is
pervasive, there is risk that our lives
will become emotionally bankrupt as
well---cosmic issues
notwithstanding. “
Patrick J. Carnes “A gentle path through the 12 steps.”

13. No Scheduled
Maintenance

14. I wanted to make a
difference.

15. How could I take a break?
The people I serve don’t get a break from their
circumstance.

16. Aisha Since 2014.
In six months I was off the 6
medications used to manage my
issues.
In 18 months I was promoted past
my original position.
I was much more effective in my
volunteer role.

17. Stress Defined
A condition or feeling experienced when a
person perceives that demands exceed the
personal and social resources the individual is
able to mobilize.
Citation
Lazarus, R., &
Folkman, S.
(1984). Stress,
Appraisal, and
Coping. New York:
Springer

18. 59%
Employees Are Highly Stressed
“Stress Pulse Survey” May 16, 2017. Compsych. May 9, 2018.

19. Things are changing.
Money and work have been
consistently at the top of the list of
things are causing Americans stress.
Nearly six in 10 adults (59 percent)
report that the current social
divisiveness causes them stress.

20. In their own words...
...it all comes down
to the frustration of
fitting 75 hrs of life
into a 24 hr period.
Quotes for illustration purposes only
Caring for a elderly
mother with little to
no support from
anyone, especially,
family.

21. In their own words...
Not managing my
stress and allowing
myself to feel
overwhelmed.
I am stressed by my
next biggest
financial goal: being
a homeowner. There
are so many moving
parts.
Quotes for illustration purposes only

22. The #1 thing you can do to
keep stress from turning into
illness is to have a self-care
plan. Tip
Practice self-
care daily not
matter your
current stress
level.

23. How many of
you have
a self-care plan
or routine?
RAISE
YOUR
HAND

24. How many of
you have
a self-care plan
or routine?
RAISE
YOUR
HAND

25. When self-care only looks like
massages and manicures….

26. ….it’s like washing your car and
never addressing what’s under
the hood and thinking your car
is going to run optimally.

27. “Caring for myself is not self-
indulgence, it is self-preservation,
and that is an act of political
warfare.”
― Audre Lorde

28. Prioritize You Self-
care Planning
System

29. 1. Prioritize Your Vision
Create an inspiring, positive, affirmation
statement with a destination.
➔ Values
Focus on what’s important to you.
➔ Feelings
How you feel is as important as what
you do.
➔ Quantum Leaps
Knowing and focusing on what you
want allows you to experience it faster.

30. 2. Prioritize Your Awareness
Take yourself off autopilot and understand
what’s bringing you joy and what’s causing
stress.
➔ One-day Time Audit
Monitor your activities and feelings for
a day.
➔ Manage Energy
Identify energy deposit and drains.
➔ Take One Step
Stop doing one thing that drains you.

31. 3. Prioritize Your Time
Make room for your vision and the things that
are most important to you.
➔ Get A Calendar That Works
Digital or Analog you must always
know what’s on your plate.
➔ Take Things Off Your Plate
Identify things that you no longer need
to give your time to.
➔ Address Procrastination
Fall in love with “guilt-free free time.”

32. 4. Prioritize Your Activities
Select self-care activities that directly address
what’s stressing you out.
➔ Inspiring Morning Routine
Fill your physical, emotional, mental,
and spiritual thank.
➔ Weekly Creative Date
Spend one hour a week doing
something that you love.
➔ Small Steps
Address energy drains from your time
audit.

33. 5. Prioritize Your Boundaries
Be very careful to safeguard your life where
you are the #1 priority.
➔ Give Feedback
Beware of crazy-makers and blocked
family and friends.
➔ Say Yes By Saying No
Don’t give away time you don’t have.
➔ Bill of Rights
Create a Self-care Bill of Rights.

35. Want to chat?
Text: 33444
Code: SCBA18
aisha@selfcarebyaisha.com
www.selfcarebyaisha.com