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26th Annual Ministry of Caring Conference: Thriving Together: Mental Wellness Strategies in Stressful Relationships
In this workshop, participants will delve into the intricate ways in which perceptions, thinking, emotions, and memory interplay to influence behavior. By sharing personal experiences, attendees will uncover how their own thought patterns and emotional responses have shaped interactions in their lives. Discussions will highlight the importance of self-awareness in recognizing these patterns and how they can be transformed to enhance personal and professional relationships.
This workshop will also address the role of challenges and successes in managing stressful interactions, emphasizing the power of compassion in these moments. Participants will share stories of both triumph and struggle, illustrating how resilience is built through learning from failures and celebrating successes. By engaging in deep listening and sharing rituals, attendees will learn to cultivate stronger relationships that promote feelings of well-being and satisfaction.
Learning Objectives
Participation in this retreat will actively equip you to:
1. Describe, through personal experiences, how perceptions, negative thinking, emotions and memory affect behavior.
2. Discuss how challenges, successes and compassion help us manage stressful interactions.
3. Describe through personal experience, how to respond to stressful relation-ships that make feelings surface which are negative and atypical.
4. Describe how failures, learning, successes and sharing builds resilience.
5. Describe how deep listening, sharing and rituals build relationships.
6. Describe how feelings of well-being, accomplishment and satisfaction help maintain amiable, constructive relationships.
Presenters
Loren Niemi is an innovative story-teller, teaching workshops on storytelling process and structure nationally and internationally, including 26 years at Metro State University. He also taught mission and brand at the University of St. Thomas’s Executive Leadership Institute. Storytelling has been a valuable tool in Loren’s longstanding community organizing and advocacy training with marginalized communities and non-profit organizations to articulate their dreams and frame their critical messages.
Loren has a BA in Philosophy and Studio Arts from St. Mary’s University, Winona, MN and Master of Arts in American Culture from Hamline University, St. Paul, MN.
CEUs
This program has been designed to meet the Minnesota Board of Nursing continuing education requirements for 6.5 contact hours. The individual is responsible for determining if the program meets the requirements for their personal continuing education.
