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CoSIDA Professional Development & Continuing Education
CoSIDA's continuing education and professional development webinar series (all live webinars and on-demand webinars) is available this year in our CoSIDA Attendee Hub.
Here's how to access them:
If you participated in the #CoSIDA21 Virtual Convention then you will be familiar with the technology. To access the programming you must
register once for the full year. Once you are registered, then you will log in to the hub to access all of our content. Register at
CoSIDA.com/ProfessionalDevelopment.
From there you will find a button to enter the
Attendee Hub. Selected sessions may later be available on-demand in the hub and on CoSIDA channels such as YouTube and podcasts.
ON-DEMAND Teachable Tuesday Webinar presented by Capital One
Checking in On Your Wellness
Your emotional, mental and physical health.
WATCH On-Demand: Access the Attendee Hub via CoSIDA.com/ProfessionalDevelopment
LISTEN via your proferred podcasting platform.
Panelists:
Dr. Kaye Cole – University of Iowa Athletics, Mental Health Therapist and Consultant
@KayeColePhD
Scott Day – Sean's House SL24: Unlocke The Light, Director of Communications and Operations / Former CoSIDA member and SID
@SDDay35
Moderator: Mike Kern – Missouri Valley Conference, Associate Commissioner
@Kern0827
As we turn the page from the crossover fall and winter seasons and into the new year, we held this webinar to discuss issues facing SIDs around your emotional, mental and physical health. The panelists gave guidance on self-care strategies and ways to help you ask for help if you are struggling with anxiety, depression, frustration, anger, failure to prioritize, and more.
These topics were covered and insights were offered for:
- helping you recognize warning signs of anxiety, burnout, frustration and depression ... what constitutes burnout?
- stop grinding and wearing "the grind mentality and massive hours of work" as a badge of honor
- sharing advice and strategies on empowering you to address these issues with colleagues, superiors, family and friends
- the danger of viewing yourself through the prism of your job and the dangers of defining yourself primarily through your job
- how to do "radical self-care" and truly take charge of your life, not allowing the job to dominate your actions and thinking; the importance of being agressive and radical about taking care of yourself - all the time
- taking inventory of your coping strategies, whether they be healthy and unhealthy coping strategies, and how to examine them, set your own personal goals, and push forward in a positive direction ... silencing your inner critic,
- setting priorities
- how to break through the difficulties of talking to a supervisor about your mental/physical health concerns, and ways to open up a conversation about it
- how to help others if you sense they are struggling, or, how to talk to them if they reach out to you and tell you that they are concerned about their mental health
- how do you calm yourself/decompress during the holiday season?
- the importance of having a "safe space, a corner of safe people" to trust and open up to
- how to stop comparing yourself to others and looking to others for validation; presenter Scott Day attributed this quote to college men's basketball coach Shaka Smart, who he worked with at VCU: "Comparison is the thief of joy.
Dr. Cole is on the University of Iowa athletics staff as its mental health therapist and consultant and works closely with student-athletes and staff on issues of mental health (depression, performance anxiety, panic disorders, other mental and emotional conditions.)
Day previously was a CoSIDA member and athletic communications administrator, serving at the University of Delaware, University of Richmond, VCU and Monmouth. Day speaks openly and honestly about his riveting and personal struggles with depression, weight gain and suicidal thoughts. He currently serves as communications and operations director for the
Unlocke The Light Foundation which is dedicated to unlocking the students' light by providing resources for those struggling with depression, self-injury and suicide.
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