Borders Boundaries and Burnout: Sustainable Living and Working Environments

A three-part series that will focus on exploring, growing, and sustaining healthy “personal borders” and “relational boundaries” to increase our resiliency to burnout in both our personal and professional lives.

The term, the sensation, and the story of Burnout seem to be raging through personal and professional realms lately. Is burnout natural? Is it sustainable for an individual or a system? What is causing it? Can we prevent it? If so, how can borders and boundaries support us?

The first event of this series will be an exploration of how the quality of our personal borders and the boundaries of our relationships influence our resiliency or susceptibility to burnout.

Our human lives and our work environments need practices that support sustainable and reciprocal exchanges. How can we design our way of being and working so that our precious time, energy, attention, passion, and finances function like renewable resources? We need to prioritize creating individualized borders and boundaries that help to protect and to nourish ourselves and our relationships.

If you have experienced burnout or are curious about navigating future environments or relationships where burnout is a potential, this series will offer supportive frameworks and practical tools. We will explore how to create individualized borders and boundaries at a personal, relational, professional, and environmental level.

What to Expect:

In this three-part series, Grae Gerlach and Sarah Barlow will use a multidisciplinary approach and integrate both personal and professional perspectives. They will offer their perspectives and instruction while also holding space for discussions and facilitating experiential activities. We will center our conversation on the following inquiry: How does the quality of our personal borders and the relational boundaries of our relationships, professional or personal, influence our resiliency or susceptibility to burnout?

Notice to Human|Work clients: please use Circle to register for the event.

About Gretchen "Grae" Gerlach:

Gretchen “Grae” is a Rite of Passage Wilderness Guide, and Council Trainer, they are currently studying to be a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Grae’s work is diverse and organic, informed by the natural environment and emerging through the reciprocal relationships with people and place. They bring a nature-based-therapeutic lens to the themes of interpersonal relationships and intrapersonal alignment with over 10 years of experience in this field. Within Human|Work they guide individuals through life transitions (personal and professional), integrating frameworks to support wholeness and orientation to the seasons of living and dying.

About Sarah Barlow:

Sarah is a tax attorney who focuses on unlocking women business owners’ potential in themselves and their businesses by providing high-level tax strategies to provide relief, comfort, and money-saving so business owners can focus more time on their goals personally and in business.

At Human | Work, Sarah serves by brainstorming with individuals to find creative solutions to difficult problems, from unlocking ways for individuals to reach their purpose and values to how to grow a business.