Dr. Jen Clifden
Educator | Researcher | Burnout Preventionist
The Light You Cast™
ON-DEMAND
Earn 4.5 Clock Hours of MENTAL HEALTH and WELL-BEING professional education proven to treat, heal, and prevent burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral injury while strengthening stress resilience and RELATIONAL HEALTH capacities that provide the foundation for connection and communal health.
Stress is ubiquitous, but burning out because of it doesn't have to be. The work of WELL-BEING is to make your light INEXTINGUISHABLE.
TLYC | ON-DEMAND
Statistics
26,000 +
views
of the Education and Movement Videos
18,000 +
hours
of participant engagement
6,000 +
human-service professionals
have invested in their mental health and well-being
"I will rewatch all of the lessons!
I actually feel like a healed person."
High School Educator
Signature Curriculum Series
The Light You Cast™ ON-DEMAND, SELF-PACED experience is an (8) 35 minute module, go-at-your-own-pace interactive video-based curriculum that is designed to be a slow dose of strategic and sustained support that cultivates the (5) core competencies of MENTAL HEALTH and emotional WELL-BEING through the stress that is innate human-service work.
* COGNITIVE HEALTH *
Self-awareness, clear thinking, thought awareness, meaning making, responsible decision making
* PHYSICAL HEALTH *
Regulated nervous system, strong immune response, mind-body connection, neuroception (how your nervous system scans the environment for safety)
* EMOTIONAL HEALTH *
Hope, courage, joy, enthusiasm, calm
* SELF/SOUL HEALTH *
Self-knowledge, self-trust, self-confidence, self-efficacy
*RELATIONAL HEALTH *
Social awareness, perspective taking, compassion, empathy, unconditional positive regard
Each of 35 minute module, guides you through a 15 minute restorative Movement experience that integrates the core curriculum in an embodied way, and a 20 minute Educational video that explores the most current research, insight, and concrete practices for actualizing your innate MENTAL HEALTH capacities and social emotional WELL-BEING through the innate stressors that commonly occur in human-service related professions.
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ASSESS and MONITOR your 5 internal mental health wellsprings,
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IDENTIFY your essential core attributes (values, strengths, virtues, and mission) that tether and ground you when anxiety, chaos, and uncertainty surround you,
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MAGNIFY your innate psychological strengths of hope, joy, enthusiasm, compassion, and purpose (especially in moments of pain, uncertainty, and anxiety),
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REDUCE stress in your body, release physical tension, improve healthy sleep, alleviate anxiety, and enhance mood boosting endorphins,
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ESTABLISH boundaries that support healthy work/life balancing, protect against over-caregiving, and prevent compassion fatigue,
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RAISE AWARENESS of the symptoms, stages, and manifestations of burnout, compassion fatigue, secondary-traumatic stress, and moral injury (in yourself and others),
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EXPLORE the science and symptoms of safe stress, toxic stress, and traumatic stress, the 7 primary stressors that drive burnout, and how to compassionate manage your trauma triggers,
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DISCOVER how your nervous system "reads" stress, what your most common physiological and psychological responses to stress are, and how to instantly soothe a stress reaction the moment it begins,
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METABOLIZE stress efficiently and effectively as a source of healing, insight, and post-traumatic wisdom that fuels your sense of self and self-efficacy,
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BUILD your trauma-responsive stress management “tool kit”of mind-body practices that you can use to ground the flight, flight, freeze, and fawn response and enable a calm, resilient response that is in balance with your strengths and core values,
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EXPERIENCE and embody the (3) manifestations of Burning Balanced, mental health, and social emotional freedom and well-being,
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STRENGTHEN relational health competencies that create resonance (feeling in-tune with others), protect against over-identifying with another’s emotions, and deepen restorative relationship practices,
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REVITALIZE your energy while making an impact and learn how to leave each work day feeling tired, but happy and aligned.
Burning Balanced
Stress is unavoidable; but chronic, complex stress fatigue can be.
Stress is a fascinating phenomenon because it is both the catalyst necessary to developing social emotional intelligence, mental health, and secure relationships while it can also be the cause of burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion and resilience fatigue.
Mental health and stress management education that prevents burnout begins by increasing awareness of how to transform a toxic stress reaction cycle that negatively impact the nervous system's capacity to self-regulate and feel safe into a protective and proactive cycle that develops and strengthens the 5 core elements of mental health (physical, cognitive, emotional, spiritual, relational) through understanding the 4 E's of stress awareness:
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No single EVENT causes burnout.
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The ENVIRONMENT one experiences stress (at work or at home) can either cause more harm or help the individual cope.
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Everyone EXPERIENCES stressful events differently based on their individual internal stress response/resilience system.
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The EFFECT a stressor leaves on the individual depends on how they metabolize the experience and how they make meaning from it.
The Light You Cast™ curriculum walks you through brain-based, trauma-responsive processes for magnifying your mental health capacities while you balance metabolizing stress and trauma triggers into energetic fuel that stokes your light and allows you to embody and express more of yourself in the midst of stress.
"After learning TLYC practices, I now go home after work tired, but happy and grateful.
There is a big difference between being tired and being burnt out."
Hight School Counselor
Mental Health | Well-Being
Pillars of Practice
Each of the (8) 35-minute, self-paced modules will guide you through learning about, experiencing, and embodying the (3) core pillars of MENTAL HEALTH maintenance and holistic WELL-BEING that are core to preventing burnout, healing the impact of toxic stress and trauma, and creating resonant relationships built on trust, safety, and security.
REST
BODY
Regulate Nervous System
Engage trauma-informed, mindfulness-based body-centered practices that harmonize, soothe, and regulate the nervous system and strengthen physical health.
RESTORATION
MIND
Making Meaning | Integration
Consciously metabolize
mental and emotional stress through our signature Burn BalancedTM cognitive - behavioral process to strengthen asset-based perspective taking, clear thinking, emotional intelligence, and positive behavioral patterns that align with core values.
REVITALIZATION
RELATIONSHIPS
Connection with Others
Cultivate social intelligence and relationship health skills to see, sense and respond (and not personally react) to another's behavioral cues in order to create resonate relationships where others feel valued and visible in your presence.
Give the
TLYC | ON-DEMAND
Curriculum a Go!
Module Content
(8) 15 minute
BODY MOVEMENT PRACTICES
designed to melt tension, reduce cortisol levels, activate the parasympathetic nervous system, soothe an overactive mind, and elevate the mood while strengthening the physical body.
Each movement video also contains a specific trauma-responsive movemindfully® practice guided by Kathy Flaminio to expand your tool kit of strategies to metabolize stress and trauma reactions.
*Closed Captioned
(8) 20 minute
INTERACTIVE EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS
with the most current research, insight, and mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioral practices to name and reframe negative thinking, feeling, and behavior cycles that drive burnout and compassion fatigue and allow you to strategically cultivate an "asset-based" mindset even/especially in the midst of a stress reaction.
*Closed Captioned
(8) Downloadable
"PUT INTO PRACTICE"
HANDOUTS
that detail concrete, transformational tools and reflective practices with beautiful illustrations by Minneapolis-based artist, Jinjer Markley, that can be immediately implemented and applied to one's professional and personal context.
ARTICLES and ONLINE RESOURCES
that align to the module topic to extend the learning, interaction, and integration of the module concepts for those wanting to take a deeper dive into any of the module topics.
Modules in Depth
01
The 3 Basics of Banishing Burnout
Breath, Balance, Boundaries
02
Taking Time Stress Off the Table
Managing your energy -- not time
03
Essential Mental Health Buoys
The science behind the reason hope and joy help so much when stressed
04
Detoxing Toxic Stress
Health is not the absence of illness, and resilience is not the absence of stress
05
Compassion - The Ultimate Antidote
Self-compassion cures shame and compassion fatigue and transforms your connections with those in your care
06
Your Innate Healing Capacities
How pain and personal trauma create wisdom, insight, and courage and your capacity to create safe spaces of compassionate care for others
07
Your Mental Health is Contagious
Cultivating communal health through individual well-being
with Dr. Nuhu Sims
08
The Light You Cast
YOU are light that fills the cracks of broken systems - why your calling is as personal as it is professional
CLOCK HOUR
Certificate of Completion
Downloadable PDF Certificate of Completion for 4.5 Clock Hours
of professional learning for submission to your accrediting body for Continuing Education Credit consideration.
The Light You Cast™
License
Organization | Group | School
District License
* cohorts (20 or less)
* small groups (75 or less)
* large groups (76-500)
* entire organizations/districts (501-1,750 +)
* multiple organizations in a county or organizational network (1,751 +)
Individual License
4.5 Clock Hours
Certificate of Completion provided
($50 per clock hour)
$225 for 6 months
Unlimited, ongoing, self-paced access to
watch and rewatch all guided yoga/movement videos and professional development educational videos for 6 months!
Testimonials
We listened. We learned.
Integrated and sustained workplace wellness matters!
The research of the ON-DEMAND, self-paced, online modules confirms that human-service professionals within systems of care need, deserve, and desire site-based professional development that focuses on caring for their health and well-being.
“I strongly believe that our profession is very consuming and if we don't get in a routine and build our tools to take care of our selves we won't do it. Please continue the classes so we can build our resilience to be better teachers.”
“I found the series to be calming, centering, and hopeful. It was really nice to have short modules that I could complete anytime."
“The entire training was EXCELLENT! I am usually a play it but don't listen person. Not this time, I actively listened and participated in all the modules.”
“I was very surprised to like the yoga/mindful movement and how it was integrated. I've tried yoga from time to time in the past and not been a fan, but the way it was described it made sense for why to do it. The mindful movement was very accessible— it was very doable, especially for a novice like me.”
"These modules were exactly what I needed to find myself again amidst the paperwork, meetings, and planning. These were the best hours spent getting to know myself again.”
“This training really helped me to understand why compassion and joy are my foundation for teaching (and all of life), and why they need to stay my foundation. The training helped me to understand that this is why my students thrive - why we are connected and engaged even in these very difficult times.”
“With this past year being the most stressful of my career, I needed to to change my thinking and focus on my own mental health. Through this I realized that I need to be healthy in order to better serve those in my care.”
