Boundary Practice for Managers
Organizations are increasingly encouraging frontline staff to participate in boundary workshops for professional development – how can managers and administrators support frontline workers in this practice?
In this workshop hosted by the BC Council for Families, managers will learn to see common communication issues, conflicts, and workplace dynamics through a boundary lens, with a view to creating a “boundary-informed” culture at work.
A boundary-informed workplace is one that cultivates and supports healthy boundaries and integrated self-care for all. Managers will learn about their own boundary styles and patterns of relating, how to practice and model boundaries specifically in their role as a manager, and how to support staff in their own boundary practice and goals.
Learning Outcomes
- Recognize and distinguish between Vague, Rigid and Healthy Boundary patterns in both frontline staff and managers
- Recognize these patterns of relating as expressed in conflict styles at work
- More effectively communicate, offer feedback and manage staff with greater insight into workplace relationships and dynamics
- Cultivate and support a boundary-informed work environment
This training is designed for Managers, Program Coordinators, Volunteer Coordinators, and/or any human service worker or helping professional who supervises, manages, coordinates, trains or provides support to other human service workers.
About the Facilitator
Jodie McDonald is a Registered Social Worker with over 20 years experience in the non-profit sector, working in crisis and suicide intervention, family support, and mental health. She has an MSW specializing in Community Development and is particularly interested in the impact of frontline human service work on the worker, the traits and experiences that draw workers to this field, and how to best support these valuable people in their essential work. Jodie teaches in the Studies in Women and Gender Department at Vancouver Island University, and is also an Integrative Body Psychotherapist in private practice.
