Tips and resources to keep MENTAL SAFETY during PANDEMIC

Closed schools, restaurants, borders, offices … How can we stay mentally healthy?

With the current pandemic many need to stay home – work virtually or take days off in order to be with their kids when the schools are closed. Yet many still need to work, not only health and safety personnel, also everyone involved with food, pharmaceuticals and energy production or supply-chain operators. These are the heroes who face a big share of the risk so that others can be better taken care of.

What can each of us do?

Whatever your situation, the most important thing that each one of us can do is to take all possible physical precautions to stay safe and healthy and to minimize the risk for others.

But there is something that we do not hear enough of: mental health. With all the stress, the uncertainties, the fear, the apprehension and the necessary social isolation from social contacts, it is hard to stay mentally healthy.

In the current situation of high uncertainty and looming threats to our own very life, it is normal to have strong instinctive reactions: we may imagine and believe the worst case scenarios and spend time figuring out how to cope; we may want to find someone or something to blame and use energy in endless complaints (or even online trolling); we may feel so powerless that we cynically give up doing anything constructive and rather indulge into unhealthy habits. Unfortunately, all of these natural reactions are counter-productive, they make us mentally fatigued, or weak. In a crisis we need mental strength.

What can we do to protect our Mental Safety?

The Grooa Leadership Academy offers some tips and free opportunities to learn how to cope and also to connect and share:

Keeping Mental Safety during Pandemic.

• Join us for free online Group Coaching (90 minutes)

April 14 at 3:00 PM

April 17 at 2:00 PM

To register and receive connection link, please email info@grooa.com

• Watch these videos:

Recorded Session: Tips for Mental Safety in Uncertain Times (45 mi.) https://transcripts.gotomeeting.com/#/s/12d10902d41c91be0c9bae6825d07bee98211609d744b31aa1f0d682d5365aa3

Recorded Session: Using the SCARF Model to help stay mentally healthy in distant social interactions ((35 min) https://transcripts.gotomeeting.com/#/s/e90849ad85ce29d65138941689967030c9103ef0e705ee8603b69c9cb0c0d4bf

• You Tube video WALK IN NATURE to virtually explore the Grooa Inspiria Forest as a de-stressing moment (7 min; remember to allow subtitles) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVxGketNxzg&t=45s

• Special Easter Gift:

Look your own free 30 minutes individual coaching call 

Send an email to laura@grooa.com to agree upon timing