The specific skills taught in the training programme include at least 12 skills – goal setting, problem solving, “chasing the good stuff”, activating thoughts, events and consequences, energy management, avoiding mind traps, uncovering the “iceberg”, putting things in perspective, mind games, real-time resilience and identifying character strengths among employees. An integral part of the training also looks at how to identify these strengths in yourself and others.
The training aims to:
- learning about, planning and managing a training programme (based on the three main components) to manage stress at work.
- Understanding: (1) the concept of preparation (includes psychoeducation on the nature of resilience, the mental factors behind it and how to increase them. These mental factors or competencies include: self-awareness; self-regulation; mental agility; optimism; connections and strong character traits); (2) maintenance – the focus of the component is on strengthening and applying the resilience skills covered in the preparation aspect of the programme (learning to recognise and anticipate the importance of the psychological aspect, as well as ways to remain resilient and promote resilience in employees; (3) enhancement – largely based on sport psychology principles, and covering learning to set goals, build self-confidence, manage energy, etc.).
Lecturer’s presentation:
Andrej Omulec, Ph.D., was a professional cyclist until 2012, where he also achieved notable results at international level. After his sporting career, he devoted himself to fields related to his studies, especially in the field of humanitarianism. He has actively participated in more than forty summer holidays, camps and was one of the masterminds behind the summer holidays for children from foster families. He has also been the mastermind behind the involvement of therapists and supervisors in summer holidays and camps, the programme Relationship Saves and the head of the social inclusion programme at Karitas. As a volunteer, he has worked in several humanitarian organisations at the same time, which is why he was nominated for Volunteer of the Year in 2017. He is currently present in the Council of the Public Institution House for Children. Until recently, he worked at the Association of Friends of Youth Moste – Polje, where he was the head of the Will Always Finds a Way programme. In 2022, the programme was awarded the first prize in the field of social care. As of this academic year, he is working at FUDŠ as an assistant professor and lecturer at the School of Psychosocial Assistance and Counselling. He is also co-author of the book Set Me a Mirror.
The training will be delivered in a hybrid format – live at the FUDŠ premises on Leskoškova cesta 9e in Ljubljana and in a virtual environment (ZOOM).
The training starts at 12:30 and lasts until 16:30.
