Chandler Bay Resources
Chandler Bay Resources, owned by Jeri Stevens PhD, LCPC, is dedicated to providing quality education for professionals. We offer Ethics and Clinical Supervision training for mental health counselorsas well as stress resilience andself-care training and coaching for educators, corporations and individuals in the workplace.
The Origin of the Empowerment Model for Stress Resilience
For over eight years, Jeri Stevens, PhD, LCPC, Carol Jollotta LCSW, and Nancy Martin CWC worked together providing health and wellness support to thousands of individuals in the workplace. Stress was identified as the most common barrier to achieving wellness goals such as weight loss, lowering health risks and remaining consistent with changing behaviors.
As groups and individuals reported high levels of stress, they also shared issues of sleep deprivation, a sedentary lifestyle and perceived themselves as being tied to their desks. They described emotional eating and critical disempowering self-talkwhich often led to social isolation. This vicious cycle of self-deprecating thoughts and unhealthy habits simply fed their stress levels which over time became a chronic condition and contributed to weight gain, illness and increased health care costs.
In pursuit of understanding barriers to wellness, we
analyzed evidenced based stress research
compared currentdata with our professional experience
attended extensive stress, exercise, nutrition and mindfulness trainings
Findings: When people are equipped with knowledge they
are able to make empowered choices
tap into their internal self-control
unearth their solutions to chronic stress
As we began to educate participants about the biological, emotional, physical and mental impacts of stress and the difference between acute and chronic stress, folks shifted their views of stress from foe to friend.
This knowledge and practice resulted in
lowering and eliminating medications
increased confidence, competence and self-worth
smoking cessation
weight loss
improved relationships
The evolution of the empowerment model…….
The Empowerment Model for Stress Resilience is a product in which individuals learn to embrace and maximize the benefit of stress. This training provides the knowledge and personal exploration about the impact of sleep, exercise, nutrition, connection and mindfulness related to stress resilience. Participants will explore personal response to stress and have the opportunity to make to set initial goals toward wellness. The Empowerment Model trainings are engaging, interactive, educational and most of all, empowering.
Chandler Bay Resources offers trainings in Augusta as well as on-site trainings.
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