Workplace Wellness: Stress Less, Achieve More - Spark Series

Ready to take your career to the next level?

Join us to learn how stress triggers the brain’s fight-or-flight response and affects your overall well-being. Our licensed therapist will help you identify your personal stress triggers. Explore self-care techniques and stress management strategies to optimize your performance and bring your best self to the workplace.

Meet The Presenter: Amarachi Onyima

Amarachi Onyima is a licensed professional counselor in Washington, DC and Maryland, and founder of Amarachi Therapy, where she provides mental health counseling with a focus on supporting Black professionals struggling with workplace stress. Amarachi has over 12 years of experience providing mental health counseling, vocational counseling, and clinical case management to adults and families coping with the negative psychological impacts of unemployment, relationship issues, financial insecurity, and more.

Amarachi has a keen understanding of the challenges that come with navigating discriminatory and toxic work environments as she has personally experienced the harm they can cause and the toll they can take on one’s mental health. She knows firsthand the importance of having a therapist who understands the nuances of these issues and can provide the support and guidance needed to navigate them. As a result, she is deeply committed to creating a safe and supportive space for her clients to explore their experiences and develop coping strategies.

About The Workforce Spark Series

The Center for Financial Inclusion and the Financial Empowerment Center at the Greater Washington Urban League is hosting a "Spark Series" of classes to help you maximize job earnings to fuel the life you want to live. Our series of classes, led by industry experts, will cover a range of topics from mapping your passion to your career to navigating power structures in the workplace. The classes are designed to be taken as a series as each one builds upon the material from the class before it. We encourage you to take all the classes in the series. Upon completion of the "Spark Series" you will be eligible to take advantage of our career coaching sessions at no cost to you.

Our highly interactive classes are designed to include any learner at any level. At no charge but with a commitment to invest in yourself and you will leave with a pathway to reach your career goals.

The Workforce Spark Series Schedule

All classes will be held online via webinar. The schedule is as follows:

• Monday, September 22nd - Map Your New Beginning - 1:00 pm
• Tuesday, September 23rd - Workplace Wellness: Stress Less, Achieve More - 1:00 pm
• Wednesday, September 24th - Stress Solutions: Wellness Strategies for Microaggressions - 1:00 pm
• Thursday, September 25th - Package Your Brilliance To Get The Job - 1:00 pm
• Friday, September 26th - Know Your Workplace Rights - 1:00 pm
• Monday, September 29th - The Hidden Network: Unveiling Workplace Influencers - 12:00 pm

For more information or questions, please email fec@gwul.org.