Mindful Coaching: New Paradigm For Burn-Not-out

Datum
27. Sep­tem­ber 2024 

Hybrid lec­ture and discussion

„Mind­ful Coach­ing: New Par­a­digm For Burn-Not-out”
27 August 2024
11:00am-12:30pm
Bet­ty Boothroyd Library, Open Uni­ver­si­ty, Mil­ton Keynes

Dear col­leagues,

I will be chair­ing a hybrid lec­ture and dis­cus­sion about mind­ful­ness and social work­ers’ burnout on 27 August 2024 at 11:00am at Open Uni­ver­si­ty, Mil­ton Keynes. It’s a hybrid event but reg­is­tra­tion is essential:

Reg­is­ter­a­tion: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzrECQYo7tXzWKNigoeY2kGG1s7J3840D74xdSVJ9mBZTd7A/viewform

This talk presents how mind­ful coach­ing (正念教練學), a new par­a­digm of heal­ing that com­bines mind­ful­ness in Bud­dhism and west­ern coach­ing tech­niques, helped social work­ers com­bat occu­pa­tion­al burnout. Research con­duct­ed by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hong Kong in ear­ly 2024 reveals sig­nif­i­cant occu­pa­tion­al burnout among social work­ers, with 93% exhibit­ing mod­er­ate lev­els and over 80% expe­ri­enc­ing sec­ondary trau­mat­ic stress. This pio­neer­ing research assess­es the impact of an 8‑week mind­ful coach­ing pro­gram aimed at mit­i­gat­ing these issues. Results indi­cate sub­stan­tial improve­ments in reduc­ing burnout and sec­ondary trau­mat­ic stress, with par­tic­i­pants also show­ing reduced symp­toms of depres­sion and a four­fold increase in com­pas­sion sat­is­fac­tion. This study under­scores the effec­tive­ness of the mind­ful coach­ing pro­gram in boost­ing well-being and resilience, enabling social work­ers to bet­ter man­age job demands and pos­i­tive­ly impact their communities.

Speaker’s bio:

Dr. Chou Wah-Shan attained his PhD in Soci­ol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of York (Eng­land) in 1996. He lec­tured at The Hong Kong Poly­tech­nic Uni­ver­si­ty (PolyU) (1988–1991) and The Uni­ver­si­ty of Hong Kong (HKU) (1994–1998) in Soci­ol­o­gy and Cul­tur­al Stud­ies. He has pub­lished 35 books. In 1999, Dr. Chou start­ed a five-year anthro­po­log­i­cal study of the Mosuo in Yun­nan, the last matri­lin­eal cul­ture in Chi­na. In 2006, he found­ed Dreams Pos­si­ble (DP), a char­i­ty with over 250 Mind­ful coach­es serv­ing Hong Kong society.

Dis­cus­sants:

Dr Loret­ta Lou, Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor in Anthro­pol­o­gy, Durham University

Dr Ling Tang, Lec­tur­er in Soci­ol­o­gy, Open University