Reflecting on self-care in emergencies and disasters

People working in stressful environments such as response and recovery in crises often carry a high workload, work in stressful situations, and may themselves be part of the community living through a crisis, emergency, or disaster. Looking after one-self is not an indulgence but a necessary part of working in the response and recovery environment. 

Led led by Dr. Maureen Mooney, this 1.5 hour session will look at:

- Examining what we know about self-care and why we don’t always put it into practice

- Planning for and putting into action our self-care.

Speaker
Maureen Mooney is a psychologist trained in New Zealand and France who has over 20 years’ experience in humanitarian psychosocial programming, disaster response, and training. Maureen has provided Psychosocial coordination and intervention in emergency disaster responses and ongoing recovery in a wide area, such as the 2004 Tsunamis, ongoing conflict support in Palestine, Ukraine, and Sudan, plane crashes, Haiti earthquake, etc. She undertook programme design, assessment, monitoring, and evaluation. Her work and teaching focus on how families and communities cope effectively with adversity, and how we can promote interventions and contexts where people and communities are able to adapt after a crisis.  Psychosocial recovery for all people affected, including responder and recovery personnel, are core to her work and trainings.