This webinar will help you explore the concept of emotional labour, and its personal and professional implications.
In today’s workplace, emotional labour—the effort of managing emotions and creating a positive environment—often goes unnoticed yet significantly impacts our well-being and productivity. Once viewed primarily as a gendered issue, emotional labour is often an unacknowledged aspect of many professions, and may include maintaining a façade, shouldering others’ burdens, improvising, or managing complex emotional or traumatic situations. Join IP Inclusive and Jonathan's Voice for an insightful webinar where they will seek to enhance your awareness of emotional labour and offer strategies to acknowledge and address its hidden challenges.
Their speaker, Nicola Neath will consider the implications of maintaining a positive demeanour to serve, comfort or placate others, even when it may not align with your own emotional state, drawing on insights from Arlie Russell Hochschild and contemporary thinkers like Liz Yeoman and Rose Hackman.
Meet the Speaker
Nicola Neath is BACP Integrative Psychotherapist and trainer, and workplace counselling specialist working in HE and in private practice. She is co-chair for the Council for Work and Health Mental Health Group. She has published on Relational Ethics; offers advice on national initiatives; written several articles for BACP journals and is regularly invited to speak about Workplace Counselling. Following the pioneering and successful organisational application of the McCluskey Model at the University of Leeds, she and Una McCluskey published an account of the application and the model in the book titled ‘To be Met as a Person at Work’. She has a small private practice, which is mainly for supervision and collaborative training. She is passionate about bringing different Psychological perspectives into the workplace.
Who’s it for?
This event is for all UK-based IP professionals who are interested in mental wellbeing. This is an important topic, which touches many and matters to all of us.
Bring a Guest!
IP Inclusive wants to reach as many IP people as possible. Why not invite a guest to watch the webinar with you – someone in a different role or at a different career level, perhaps; an ally or potential ally; or a colleague who’s not yet involved with IP Inclusive? They’ll be most welcome!
Registration
This event is free. So are all IP Inclusive resources. That said, they do need money to keep the show on the road, so if you enjoy the event please consider contributing. For more information, visit the IP Inclusive fundraising page.
