Full course description
Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Time: 10–11 am PST
Audience: All faculty and staff at UBC Vancouver and Okanagan are welcome to attend.
Location: Zoom. (Once you’ve registered, you will be directed to the course Canvas page where you can find the Zoom link.)
About this workshop:
In this workshop we will examine the experience of stress through the language of our nervous system.
This experiential session, hosted by Dr. Ellen Choi. will help you practice listening to thoughts, feelings, actions, and perhaps most importantly, sensations in your body to understand your own stress response. You will learn how to identify nervous system regulation and dysregulation by recognizing the different types of habitual behaviours you engage in when you're at peace versus stressed and depleted.
Important notes:
- The session will be recorded and the slides will be shared.
- There will be one optional breakout room activity in a small group.
- Closed captioning can be enabled.
About your facilitator:
Dr. Ellen Choi is an Assistant Professor in Human Resources Management and Organizational Behaviour in the Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University).
Dr. Choi is an organizational psychologist with training in the fields of Social Psychology and Organizational Behaviour. She received her PhD from the Ivey School of Business in 2017, and her MSc from the London School of Economics in 2012. Her research interests revolve around workplace wellbeing and mental health. In particular she studies the effects of mindfulness training on stress, attention, emotion regulation, errors, authenticity, resilience, and performance under pressure.
Dr. Choi teaches in the area of organizational behaviour on topics such as leadership, training and development, motivation, and decision-making. Prior to graduate school, Ellen traded in commercial real estate for 8 years with CBRE. She is also a yoga instructor and executive meditation coach.