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Free virtual webinar
Speakers:
Luisa Ortiz Pérez, Leader, Media Resilience Network | Executive Director, Vita Activa
César Montesano, Head of Therapeutic Support, Media Resilience Network
Follow up and leading the Community Circle afterwards:
Dagmar Thiel, fosters Communities of Practice and Capacity Building, Media Resilience Network. The Media Resilience Network (MDRnet) is an initiative led by Vita Activa, created to meet an urgent need: support the emotional, mental, and organizational health of journalists and media leaders navigating burnout, precarity, and systemic exclusion in a rapidly changing world.
This 90-minute webinar will focus on a better understanding of stress and burnout indicators in newsrooms and how to address them with care. This is a participatory modality with practical exercises and scenarios adapted to the journalistic context.
This webinar will cover the following:
- Emotional management for media leaders
- Identifying acute stress and burnout
- Developing active listening and peer-support skills
- Care awareness and emotional planning
The event will be held online using Zoom. Please follow the instructions you receive after registering. Email CCM if you do not receive a confirmation message or if you have any questions.
Luisa Ortiz Pérez leads MDRnet.org. She is the Executive Director of Vita-Activa.Org, a helpline for online violence and trauma. A creative strategist with over 20 years of experience in mental health, digital rights, and care in media. Author of “A Human Condition, a play about journalism,” and a 2023 Journalism JSK Fellow at Stanford University.
César Montesano is the Head of Therapeutic Support at MDRnet.org; and a Humanistic Counselor and Gestalt Psychotherapist with a specialty in crisis intervention and post-traumatic stress, therapeutic groups, somatization and symptoms, and various specialties in the theory of Gestalt Psychotherapy.
Dagmar Thiel is a journalist and press freedom advocate. She has led media sustainability for organizations in authoritarian regimes and developed support systems for exiles. At MDRnet, she is responsible for fostering communities of practice and capacity building. Dagmar is an RJI fellow (2020).