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Tools for resilience: How can journalists manage their well-being while reporting on major stories?

These are stressful times, and the work journalists do is more important and essential than ever in this divided world. Yet sometimes it feels like we’re running upstream on a moving sidewalk. Organizations are reinventing themselves to keep up with a turbulent business environment, resources are shrinking, and we’re pivoting from one astonishing news event to the next.

How often have you said, “I’ll rest later, when this story is over.”? Then, when “later” came, did you do it?

This 90-minute workshop focuses on practical tools that you can use to prioritize your resilience and well-being and use them to your advantage even in the midst of the day’s Big Story.

 In this workshop, participants will

• Entertain new perspectives on resilience and well-being.
• Be invited to challenge their assumptions.
• Reflect on their experiences, both alone and with others.
• Learn ways to use writing to assess and relieve stress.
• Create a plan for personal growth in resilience and well-being.

Maria Ramirez Uribe is an immigration reporter at PolitiFact. Previously she served as a Report for America corps member, working as a race and equity reporter in Charlotte, North Carolina, for WFAE, an NPR member station, and La Noticia, the state’s biggest Spanish-language paper. Before this, Maria worked as a freelance researcher for CNN’s international desk. She graduated from North Carolina’s Elon University with a double major in journalism and strategic communications and a double minor in international relations and peace and conflict studies.

Alix Felsing, Felsing is an executive coach, teacher and communication consultant. She specializes in coaching emerging female leaders and women who are taking on their next big challenge.

Alix was a journalist for many years, primarily at The Charlotte Observer, where she held a variety of editing roles across the newsroom. As resources shrank, she began to wonder why some people thrived and others struggled to adapt. That prompted her interest in resilience, wellbeing and the turning points that can lead to career derailment.

She teaches resilience and journaling at the Davidson Centre for the Professions, where she coaches clergy in a professional development and renewal program. Alix teaches business communication at Queens University of Charlotte’s McColl School of Business, where she earned a master’s degree in organization development and a coaching certificate. She is the owner of the coaching and consulting firm Alix Felsing Consulting, LLC.