Francesca Reicherter Speaking Topics

• A Guide to Supporting Your Loved One in A Mental Health Conversation

  Description:

  Do you have a loved one who struggles with their mental health? Or are you looking to develop a deeper relationship with someone in your life that allows for honesty and vulnerability in your feelings and experiences? This workshop offers the attendees the tools they need to better understand and facilitate supportive and validating dialogue to promote authentic mental health conversations and support someone in their life who needs it. In this workshop, attendees will learn Francesca’s five-step guide to fostering communication that opens the door to honesty, vulnerability, and support:

  1. Check in with yourself.

  2. Ask non-judgmental open-ended questions.

  3. Actively listen.

  4. Validate

  5. Follow Up

  By the end of this workshop, attendees will have the tools they need to support a loved one who is disclosing their mental health struggles.

  Learning Objectives:

  1. Conduct a supportive and validating mental health conversation with your loved one(s).

  2. Employ nonjudgmental open-ended questions to open a mental health conversation/check-in with your loved one(s).

  3. Produce supportive and validating responses to offer compassion to an individual struggling with their mental health.

• Preventing Burnout: How to Incorporate Self-Care Practices into Your Routine

  Description:

  Have you ever struggled with balancing all of your responsibilities? Do you struggle to make time for yourself and incorporate self-care practices into your life? Do you ever deal with burnout? This workshop is designed to help you build self-care practices into your daily life that best match your needs, lifestyle, and time constraints so that you can reduce your risk of burnout.

  By the end of this workshop, attendees will be able to answer the following questions:

  1. What are your needs?

  2. What do these needs mean to you?

  3. How are you currently addressing these needs?

  4. What can you change?

  5. How can you implement effective self-care tools into practice?

  Learning Objectives:

  1. Decrease your risk of burnout by incorporating self-care practices that align with your overall specific needs, including emotional, mental, social, and spiritual.

  2. Discover your needs and establish self-care practices that not only target the identified needs but also are appropriate within your lifestyle.

  3. Integrate self-care practices into your routine effectively with a customized schedule for time management and behavior reinforcement tools for accountability.

Helping You & Your Loved One Identify Support and Reach Out for Help

Description:

Have you or someone you know ever struggled to reach out for help for your mental health? This workshop helps the attendees to distinguish between the five types of support and identify which type of support is right for their need(s).

1. Encouragement

2. Community

3. Emotional

4. Informational

5. Physical

By the end of the workshop, the attendees will be able to connect the type of support they are looking for to the language to reach out for help using Francesca’s five-step guide to reaching out for help.

1. Know yourself and your needs.

2. Create goals for your conversation.

3. Express yourself clearly.

4. Be honest and vulnerable.

5. Be persistent.

Learning Objectives:

1. Cultivate a space for your loved one(s) to explore the type of support they are looking for based on their specific need(s).

2. Differentiate between the various types of support and resources available to establish a plan for your loved one(s) to reach out for support.

3. Guide your loved one(s) in developing the language they need to reach out for help by identifying whom to talk to, developing goals for the conversation, and formulating an ask.

Helping You & Your Loved One Build Affirmations and Coping Skills

Description:

Is there anyone in your life who is struggling with their self-confidence? Is there anyone who feels overwhelmed by stress and needs help managing their emotions? This workshop gives the attendees the tools to not only understand the importance of affirmations and coping skills but also the skills to support someone else in developing affirmations and coping skills that work for them.

By the end of the workshop, attendees will learn how to support a loved one in reframing their negative thoughts and insecurities into affirmations and building unique coping skills that support their specific needs to boost their resiliency to overcome life's stressors and obstacles.

Learning Objectives:

1. Educate your loved one(s) on the power of affirmations and coping skills by understanding what each is, how to determine what works best for you, and how to implement each into your life.

2. Assist your loved one(s) in developing affirmation statements that reframe their automatic negative thoughts and counter their insecurities to boost self-confidence.

3. Direct your loved one(s) in constructing a coping skill toolbox that bridges the gap in how they are feeling and what they need to manage those overpowering emotions.