​• Identify personal and professional stressors that you may have experienced during the lockdown or community quarantine, and the work-from-home situation
• Describe personal strengths and resources in navigating through the pandemic
• Develop new ways of managing stress, burnout, and other potential mental health issues, given the current work-from-home situation
• Create a personal self-care program to ensure a work-life balance

For the eighth session of the MaxiLIFE Well-being Webinar, we will be discussing “The Work from Home Phenomenon: How to Achieve Work and Home Life Balance”
Date: October 28, 2020 (Wednesday)
Time: 10-11am
Join us by clicking on this link to sign up: http://bit.do/MaxiLIFEWebinar-TheWFHPhenomenon
The event is open to all, with prices indicated below:
Maxicare Member: FREE
Non Maxicare Member: P300

​DAVAO CITY 07 October 2020 – The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Consular Office (CO) in Davao City held a special webinar entitled “Taking Care of My Mental Health During the Pandemic” via Google Meet on 03 October 2020, with Dr. Maria Caridad H. Tarroja, PhD, RPsy as the resource speaker.

During the webinar, Dr. Tarroja discussed how the COVID-19 pandemic, along with public health measures such as social distancing, affects a person’s mental health. She shared the iCOPE strategy in taking care of one’s health by having a Compassionate Heart, Open Mind, Purposeful Spirit, and Engaging Body.  She emphasized the benefits of self-care and the importance of planning and conducting self-care activities for a healthy mind and body.

In her closing remarks, Consular Office Officer-in-Charge Delza Lourdes D. Bayabao said that it is important to stay informed, stay connected with family and friends, look after one’s self and support each other to be able to cope during these difficult times.  She thanked Dr. Tarroja for a very interesting and informative webinar and for sharing ways on how to take care of mental health that will truly benefit the personnel at work and at home.
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The activity was organized by the Consular Office’s Gender and Development (GAD) Focal Point Officer Leila W. Fabian-Sulit, together with Alternate GAD FPO Karen G. Margallo as Moderator. The Resource Speaker, Dr. Maria Caridad H. Tarroja, PhD, RPsy, is Vice President of the Psychological Empowerment to Resources and Aspirations, Inc.  She is the former President of the Psychological Association of the Philippines and was awarded 2016 PAP Outstanding Psychologist. END

SOURCE: Department of Foreign Affairs 

Read more here: ​https://dfa.gov.ph/dfa-news/dfa-releasesupdate/27870-dfa-consular-office-in-davao-city-conducts-webinar-on-mental-health-care-during-the-pandemic