Overcoming the pain of Career trauma | Marie Gervais | TEDxStrathcona Women

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In this talk, Dr. Marie Gervais explains the often unacknowledged pain of career trauma in our lives and demonstrates emotional freedom techniques that can help us heal. Embodied ways of acknowledging emotional and moral wounds, bring about release, open possibilities for better careers, and provide the tools to deal more effectively with circumstances beyond our control. Marie Gervais, PhD., CEO of Shift Management Inc., provides managerial training, coaching, and organizational capacity development to businesses and organizations with online courses, team building, and coaching. She helps build internal leadership and intercultural communication capacity and develops teams to function more effectively. She focuses on aligning business objectives and visible results through inclusive workplace practices and interpersonal efficacy. Her courses and multimedia resources have won prizes for innovation and excellence in online learning.
Dr. Gervais is a Certified Conscious Emotional Freedom Techniques Practitioner and a Certified Emotional Success Coach using modalities that focus on emotional regulation, visualization, body sensation (somatics), and breathwork. She specializes in helping clients with workplace distress, career mapping, and removing emotional blocks to work.
Her experience working with diverse populations and varying English proficiency skill levels has provided her with insights into how people feel welcome at work, and what they need to be productive in their roles. Her ongoing research in the future of work and workplace trends led her to write the book The Spirit of Work: Timeless Wisdom, Current Realities, available in eVersion and book form. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx