Self-Care for Sustainable & Wholesome Leadership
Francesca Nuzzolese
Trauma Care Consultant, Psychotherapist, Scholar-Writer
Overview
Being a leader is certainly a great honor; but it is also a greater liability. The privilege of guiding others comes with an implicit commitment and responsibility to be able to handle moments of great stress, to navigate complex situations, and to guide individuals and teams through conflict and controversial dynamics. Research shows that such tasks can only be accomplished well and effectively when leaders tend to their own personal well-being, and prioritize their physical, spiritual, relational, and emotional health. Conversely, the prolonged negligence of self-care results in stress-related illnesses, relational and mental breakdowns, serious cases of burnout, and potential loss of integrity and direction. This workshop will invite participants to engage their own potential for transforming leadership, beginning with taking a sober look at how they treat (or mistreat) themselves daily and by helping them identify and commit to the life-long personal and professional benefits of investing in self-care.
Dr. Francesca D. Nuzzolese
Trauma Care Consultant, Psychotherapist, Scholar-Writer
Dr. Nuzzolese is a professor in higher education, a psychotherapist, and a trauma care consultant. Her work and experience span over a variety of cultural and geographical contexts, with critical competencies in cross-cultural teaching, training, and psychotherapeutic practice. Her chief professional commitment is to create educational and therapeutic spaces, where individuals and communities can experience growth, fulfillment, healing, and wholeness.
She brings worldwide experience as lecturer and educator, with contributions ranging from International Academic Guilds, such as the American Academy of Religion in the USA, to workshop facilitation and plenary addresses at conferences such as The International Alliance on Prostitution (USA, Europe, and Russia); The Baptist World Alliance (South Africa and Thailand); The Global Peace Conference (Colombia); and Business Conventions (Italy). Through her psychosocial model of training, she has impacted hundreds of students and helped professionals around the world, in the humanitarian and business sectors and in very diverse socio-cultural and economic contexts, such South Africa, in the post-Apartheid reconciliation phase; Albania, in the post-communist era; Nepal in the post-earthquake years; Sierra Leone, during the Ebola epidemic; and Europe and the U.S., during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
In her Workshops, she draws from a variety of personality test tools, such as the Myers-Briggs (MBTI), the Enneagram, 16Personalities, and Strengths-Finder; as well as from therapeutic techniques, drawn from client-centered, psychodynamic, and Cognitive Behavioural psychological approaches. Her publications include Just Care: pastoral counseling with socioeconomically vulnerable women (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012); articles found in Prism Magazine, The Journal of Pastoral Psychology, The Journal of Pastoral Theology, and chapter contributions in Women out of Order and Women with 2020 Vision (Fortress Press, 2009 and 2020); Psyche & Geloof (University of Amsterdam Publications, 2022). In her forthcoming book, The World as a Trauma Zone, she offers reflections on her 20 years’ clinical engagement with dehumanized and traumatized individuals and communities around the world.
She holds a Doctorate in Theology (USA), Master in Counseling (Australia) and international training in psychotherapy, trauma care, and psychodrama (USA, Europe, and Australia).