Neuroscience of Fear in Social Worker - How to let go of it

Fear is all too common in Social Work due to a blend of personal, professional, team and organisational factors. It affects wellbeing, performance and quality, making it everyones business. Join us to develop practices that will help improve your response to stress and let go of fearful emotions.

We are going to cover the following themes through the lense of LEAF - Let-go, Empower, Action and Flourish:

• What we mean by fear in social work: What situations we feel fear and and how it feels?

• Causes of fear: Personal, Professional, Team and organizational factors  

• The impact of fear: on wellbeing, performance, service user outcomes.

• The neuroscience of fear: and related emotions