This year CSN, CareOregon and Pause are bringing you a five-part resiliency series, aimed at strengthening resilience among our social service professionals. Throughout the course of this series you will learn skills to help manage stress, prevent burnout, and sustain effectiveness in high-pressure environments. Each session will cover a different topic, here's what you can expect: 

02.24.2026, Presence - Gateway to Choice: Shifting from automatic reactions to conscious responses through simple grounding practices, and transition from survival brain to wise brain functioning. Enhance your resilience and response in high-pressure situations.

04.28.26, Calm - Recovering Equilibrium: Maintaining a steady baseline of calm, and quickly recover equilibrium in stressful social service environments. Learn practical techniques to help regulate stress and daily anxiety, widening your window of tolerance. 

06.09.26, Clarity - Harnessing Emotions: Enhancing your capacity to regulate strong emotions, build emotional intelligence, and transform reactivity to wisdom when working with vulnerable populations. Prevent reactive outburst and activate positive states.

09.08.26, Creativity - Choosing Possibility: Releasing self-limiting thoughts and beliefs. Choose possibility over limitation, finding fresh perspectives when addressing systemic challenges. Discover new solutions while moving beyond ruminations into creative action when serving clients with complex needs. 

11.03.26, Connection - Fueling Relationships: Quieting your inner critic, cultivating the inner ally, and turn conflict into connection in both professional and personal relationships. Boost confidence in challenging situations. Foster belonging and trust within your workplace community. 

This is a virtual series- registration is required for all workshops. Register for one, or for all! We hope to "see" you there  

Please reach out to jgarza@csnpdx.org for any questions.

A HUGE thank you to Pause and CareOregon for your partnership.