Wellbeing Wednesdays: Power of a New Thought

Date: Wed, 10/05/2022| Time: 12-1pm | Location: Virtual – Zoom

Event Description

The WorkLife Office and Health4U are partnering to bring you Wellbeing Wednesdays. These weekly Wednesday sessions are focused on wellbeing in its many forms: workplace wellbeing, mental health wellbeing, physical wellbeing, etc. Join us each week for informal webinars that bring new topics and presenters, ranging from chair yoga, office ergonomics, managing stress, ecotherapy and so much more!

Too often we try to solve our work and personal life challenges with the same old thoughts, beliefs, rules, and biases. Recognizing and interrupting unhelpful, conditioned thought habits can help you spend more time in the high-quality state of mind essential for fresh, creative, inspired thinking. Just one new thought can change everything and allow for innovation and value-guided change. Come join Lisa Laughman, Resilience Trainer, Coordinator of the Spartan Resilience Training Program. 

Learning Objectives

Explore the power of new thoughts. Learning to engage in a high-quality state of mind. Tap into flow of insights that lead to creativity. 

About the Speaker: Lisa Laughman

Lisa Laughman

Lisa is a licensed clinical social worker who received a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work from Eastern Michigan University (1988) and her Master’s Degree in Social Work from Michigan State University (1991). Lisa has worked in the arenas of addictions counseling, foster care, and employee assistance counseling. Lisa has served the University as an employee assistance counselor since 2003 and as an emotional wellness consultant since 2005. Lisa is the facilitator of the Sustainable High Performance class offered in partnership with MSU Human Resources. This class helps people gain the skills required to live at the intersection of healthy and high performing.

Lisa’s counseling and emotional wellness coaching is centered in several evidence based theories including Acceptance Commitment Theory (ACT), Shame Resilience Theory (SRT), and several system theories that address issues of power and privilege based on race, gender, class, disability, sexual orientation and other human differences. Lisa’s work is also heavily influenced by Three Principles of healthy human functioning. Lisa has recently become a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator who provides transformational learning experiences based on the shame resilience research of Dr Brené Brown.

Outside of her work at MSU, Lisa is the founder of Wisdom Heart Life a counseling and coaching service dedicated to helping people live their life lined up with their deepest wisdom and their greatest sense of meaning and purpose. Lisa’s enjoys moments spent with her 3 incredible adult children and her amazing partner, family, and friends. Her favorite way to spend a summer day is on the edge of a Great Lake or in her kayak on quiet waters.