Beyond Self-Care: Sustainable Leadership for Women

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About the Workshop

This 90-minute interactive workshop invites women leaders and students to explore burnout, resilience, agency, belonging, and sustainable leadership beyond individualized self-care.

Participants will examine how burnout and overextension are shaped by personal, relational, cultural, institutional, and environmental conditions. Through the framework Regulate, Reflect, Relate, Reform, participants will practice accessible grounding strategies, reflect on leadership habits and narratives, identify sources of support, and leave with one practical action aligned with their values and capacity.

Participants Will

Examine burnout beyond individual self-care
Practice grounding strategies for clarity and regulation
Reflect on leadership habits, expectations, and narratives
Identify sources of belonging, support, and accountability
Leave with one values-aligned action or commitment

Professional Development

Alliant students are eligible to receive 1.5 free professional development hours for their program. This workshop does not offer CEUs.

Facilitators

Ki Yan Ip

M.A. Candidate in Marital and Family Therapy, Alliant International University

SPARKS-USA participant bringing design and mental health perspectives to sustainable leadership

Elif Akçay

Yoga Alliance-registered yoga teacher based in Milan, Italy

Currently training through the Polyvagal Institute

Faculty Sponsor: Nurcan Ensari, PhD

Distinguished Professor, California School of Professional Psychology

Director of SPARKS-USA

About SPARKS-USA

SPARKS-USA is a free 5-month leadership development program for immigrant and multicultural women in the U.S., offered by the Turkish Women’s Initiative.

REGISTER FOR FREE via https://tr.ee/beyondselfcare