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For health and human services professionals, stress is in the job description. And it manifests in a multitude of ways—
from burnout and decreased job satisfaction to higher rates of patient dissatisfaction.
Here’s what we know:
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Stress is the underlying cause of of all human illness and disease, and costs the nation $300 billion annually in medical bills and lost productivity. At least
80% of social workers believe stress levels are affecting their ability to do their job. six
Chronic stress has been linked to the leading causes of death in America: heart disease, cancer, respiratory disease, accidents, alcoholism, and suicide.
70%54% of nurses say they feel burned out, and report high stress levels. As a healthcare provider or human services professional, you can’t escape stress. But what you can control is how you manage it.
That’s where RISE comes in. Sources: American Institute of Stress, American Psychological Association, Community Care, stress.org
RISE is evidence-based. RISE is an evidence-based professional-development
training specifically tailored to the unique stressors of care providers. Developed by Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in partnership with doctors, nurses, and social workers, the RISE program brings together more than a decade of research in mindfulness, resilience, brain science, and human behavior.
RISE delivers life-changing programming to health and human service professionals, creating a measurable impact for practitioners, patients, organizations, and communities at large.
RISE is specifically designed to support • Greater clarity and resilience • Improved social emotional intelligence • Better decision making through increased focus • Enhanced work/life integration • Decreased burnout rates • Renewed sense of purpose and empowerment • Connected, compassionate care of clients and patients.
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“As a nurse, I see stress, PTSD, anxiety, and depression among others daily. RISE will help me to provide better care.” —C. M., Nonatuck Resource Associates
Essential Tools for Change RISE provides data-driven solutions to create mindful, resilient, and conscious individuals, hospitals, and human services agencies.
Through RISE, long-term,
RISE offers a multifaceted
sustainable change occurs at three levels:
set of learning experiences that transcend traditional professional development.
Personal Transformation Employees’ experience becomes more fulfilling as they integrate tools for selfcare and stress resilience. RISE produces measurable increases in the ability to recover from everyday on-the-job stress, as well as traumatic events.
Instruction
Professional Transformation
Practice
Social workers and healthcare professionals develop and sustain new, healthy habits— not only for self-care, but also for improved patient care.
Transformation Throughout Organizations Renewed engagement and connection to your work, the mission, and service leads to more sustainable, mindful, and effective delivery of care and services.
Discover a new model that supports personal well-being and career longevity. Learn the science behind mindfulness-based practices and the results of self-care on stress resilience and patient care.
Experience the immediate impact of stressresilience tools, including breathing and centering exercises, meditations, strengths identification, mindful listening, and movement.
Tools for the Long Term Explore personal and system-wide barriers to mindful clinical practice and map an approach to reinvigorate your work as it relates to mission and service.
We know RISE works. RISE trainings have been rigorously evaluated by our research partners. Individuals and organizations who experience the RISE program report profound results—increases in resilience, mindfulness, engagement, and positivity. Our research outcomes have been widely published in peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Workplace Behavioral Wellness.
RISE mindfulness tools are proven to • Change the brain, making it easier to pay attention, stay calm, and tap into empathy • Improve stress resilience in the moment and over time, as measured by heart rate variability • Decrease compassion fatigue • Reduce symptoms of secondary trauma • Enable better risk management • Lower dropout and error costs • Enhance provider-client and provider-patient communication and rapport • Support health—mindfulness is linked with a
50% decrease in cold and flu symptoms and a 75% decrease in absenteeism.
Our research shows that RISE participants experience • 32% reduction in perceived stress • 13% increase in mindfulness • 10% increase in empowerment.
“We serve a highly traumatized population of young people—20 percent are homeless, 30 percent live in unstable housing, 36 percent have made a suicide attempt in their lifetime, and upwards of 50 percent have experienced sexual violence or abuse as children. And many of our staff have had life experiences that overlap with those of our young people. What I came to understand through RISE is that, as a supervisor, I need to bring the clarity, the calm, and the connectedness. I can’t show up looking for the juice—I’ve got to bring it. RISE not only gave me new tools for doing that, it was also an opportunity to get grounded in the science. Our brains don’t function well in stress and crisis—the amgydala will really mess with your ability to make smart decisions. It’s such a relief and also so energizing to remember that there is always one thing you can do to bring your brain back online and activate your parasympathetic nervous system: the breath. There are a lot of things that happen to the body when you’re in crisis that you can’t do anything about, but you can control your breath, and that makes a huge difference. It helps give us the strength to continue doing this work, witnessing the poverty and trauma that these young people experience before they walk in the door each day and that they head back to every night. We are responsible for creating safety and calm for the youth who come to us, so we need to be able to breathe, to be clear, to make decisions, and to make changes when needed. My vision is for my entire staff to learn to use the RISE mindfulness techniques and to model them for our kids.” —Bridget Hughes, Senior Director, Youth Services, Hetrick-Martin Institute, New York, New York
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RISE can be delivered on-site at Kripalu, at the client site, virtually, or via a combination of all three. Program length typically ranges from one to five days, and can be customized to meet your organization’s needs. But RISE isn’t just a one-time program. It’s a transformation, driving lasting change through multiple, self-sustaining solutions. RISE training provides continuing medical education credits for professional development.
RISE Facilitators Our expert facilitators bring years of experience in delivering mindfulness programming, and are trained specifically to offer RISE to hospitals and human services agencies. Jennifer Johnston, LMHC, PhD, E-RYT, is a licensed psychologist, mental health counselor, and yoga instructor who has worked extensively with people who have experienced trauma, including activeduty military, veterans, and their families. She integrates psychotherapy with mind-body interventions to provide a compassionate and spacious environment for growth and transformation. Jennifer maintains a private practice working with individuals and couples, using skills-based, relational, and integrative interventions. She provided clinical and mind-body programs for veterans and their families at the Lowell Vet Center, and directed yoga and educational programs at the Benson Henry Institute (BHI). Jennifer also conducted mind-body research at BHI with adolescents, adults, and people with chronic health concerns. Lisa B. Nelson, MD, is a practicing family physician in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She serves as Director of Medical Education for Kripalu and is also medical director of The Nutrition Center, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to inspire a healthy relationship with food through counseling, nutrition, and culinary education for school-aged children. Lisa is a clinical instructor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health in the School of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts, and clinical assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. She serves on the advisory board for the Healthy Living Resource Center for Maine General Hospital, and works with numerous community groups and allied health professionals throughout the Northeast to increase awareness about the treatment and prevention of chronic disease through changes in exercise and nutrition.
Contact us for more information. 413.448.3300 rise@kripalu.org kripalu.org/rise RISE™ is a registered trademark of Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. All rights reserved.