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Organizing against stress

CUPE

CUPE's guide Enough Workplace Stress: Organizing for Change is an awesome guide for trainers to use when hosting positive workplace workshops. Add in some discussion, a mind map and this comprehensive primer quickly becomes a way to address stress in any workplace. The guide has a great overview of what workplace stress is and what labour activists can do to fight it. It also includes:

Definitions of stress

Causes of stress

Outcomes of stress

Taking action

Solutions

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Homelessness and traumatic stress

trauma informed care 101

This 236 page trainer's manual on homelessness and traumatic stress is an extensive outline that covers everything needed to run at least three different workshops. The workshops are divided up into understanding the traumatic stress in experiencing homelessness, creating trauma informed services and incorporation into daily life. Each section should last about three hours. This workshop includes

a full trainer's guide to facilitation

tips for working with different groups

evaluations and checklists

agendas, sample slides, handouts and more!

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Columnists

Backyard gardens: Antidotes to the frenzies

Hold on again. There's too much going on. We need to step back from the frenzy for a moment and contemplate the deeper mysteries. Yes, I'm talking mainly to you out there in the great suburban strip, but right in town too and maybe even some of you in the country who have lost the enchanted bond.

Roar Sound - A mantra meditation workshop

Apr 24 2009 - 6:30pm
Apr 24 2009 - 9:00pm

Location

Yoga Sanctuary Danforth
95 Danforth East
Toronto, ON M4K 1N2
Canada
Phone: 647.261.7499
43° 40' 34.4712" N, 79° 21' 31.3056" W

The basic problem in our search for happiness is that our sources of pleasure are limited. Mantra provides means by which we can expand our pleasure beyond our present limitations. ROAR SOUND is a Mantra Meditation Workshop designed to get you in touch with a pleasure principle that operates beyond the bounds of time and space and emanates from the very innermost part of our being.

Contact name: 
Aarti
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