Coping, caring and courage at work

Do you have caring responsibilities? Have you had serious illness? Are you wondering how everyone else just seems to get on with their work and life whilst you drown in a sea of conflicting and exhausting demands on your time, care and attention? 

Nobody feels just like you do. 

Everyone has a different story to tell. 

And everyone has a different way of coping.

But most of us have to keep working. So we get on with the day job, and bottle it all up, creating additional pressure. We do not want to spend our lives in joyless urgency, but sometimes it feels that way, rushing through each thing we do so we can do something else.

Come to Durham University Business School on 13^th June 2024, where you will be provided with lunch in the café, Fusion, and a chance to chat from 1200-1245, then listen to others’ experiences and share your stories in Room 454 until 1400. Share your coping strategies, and perhaps learn some new ones. How do people deal with the symptoms and stresses of fibromyalgia, menopause, pregnancy? How do they manage the school run shuffle and school holidays shifts? Find out how others deal with autistic or difficult children, demented parents, the death of a loved one, or the impact of cancer treatment. 

Dr Joanna Berry will share her often funny, always honest and personal story of breast cancer diagnosis, treatment and recovery. She will then moderate a conversation and discussion with a panel of people who all have coping strategies to help them with some, or some combination of these issues. 

This event will not be recorded, or available online, due to the personal nature of the discussions. But we really want to see you! Caring is often a network of activities, involving family and friends, so this is an open event for anybody who wishes to come along, although a member of staff will need to fill in the form registering any externals as it requires DU authentication. Please, however, do feel free to invite those non-DU people with whom you share your caring responsibilities; we have provided food and drinks to make your lunchtime break a bit more enjoyable.

Please register for yourself and/others here

“There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world." - Mary Anne Radmacher

Supported (with great thanks) by

Durham University Business School EDI Committee

Durham University Carers Network: Carers Network (sharepoint.com)

Women@DU Sharepoint site