BJC Resiliency

Becoming More Resilient

Welcome to BJC’s Resiliency Website! This site provides resources from across the system to help you learn more about building and strengthening resiliency. You will find activities, articles, videos, and other resources surrounding Meaning, Self-Care, Relationships, Self-Awareness, and Optimism.

RESILIENCY CHAMPIONS

Resiliency champions help others become more resilient. Click here or the Champion link at the top of the page to explore our Champion support program.

RESILIENCY CHAMPION OVERVIEW

BUTTERFLY EFFECT

The Butterfly Effect Project is designed to show how Resiliency grows within BJC.

If you have a butterfly card and see someone being resilient, hand them your card and let them know what they did! The person will then follow the directions on the back of the card.

Click here to view additional information
Click here for a Users's Guide
Click here for a "Congratulations!" card to give someone who was resilient

SABA COMMUNITY

The Resiliency Community in Saba provides additional resiliency discussions with other BJC employees.

Join the Resiliency Community
View the Question of the Month Discussion

RESILIENCY IN WORKPLACE

If you've joined BJC's social media platform Workplace by Facebook, join us in the BJC All Resiliency group!

LEADING WITH RESILIENCY

Would you like to build resiliency within your team? Our Leading With Resiliency page in iLead helps leaders increase Resiliency within their department.

RESOURCES FOR EMPLOYEES

BJC Total Rewards

The Well-Being page on the BJC Total Rewards website includes a section on Help for Your Health initiatives.

BJC EAP

The Employee Assistance Program provides counseling and referral services for work/life issues, including emotional/mental health, legal, financial, childcare, etc.

Move by BJC

Employee fitness centers are offered onsite at Barnes-Jewish Hospital campus and at Boone Hospital.
BJC Worksite Recess Videos
Wellness Seminars are available by request.

WeCare Program

WeCare teams provide care and support to staff “in the moment” when adverse events occur. Contact the WeCare team at WeCareTeam@bjc.org for more information. Training classes are available to become part of the existing WeCare Team or to start a new team.

Compassion Fatigue

In this class, participants learn about the symptoms and the factors which contribute to compassion fatigue within the healthcare setting, how to maintain their health, and to avoid burn-out and compassion fatigue.

Sleepio

BJC Medical Plan members — employees and spouses — can determine how well they sleep by taking a two-minute test.

Those who take the test will get a tailored report of their sleep, along with a personalized tip they can try right away to get a better night’s sleep. Based on the results of their sleep test, those who need further help improving their sleep can then sign up for Sleepio’s entirely online, six-week program free of charge.

EXTERNAL RESOURCES

Feeling stressed? The American Psychological Association Stress Website updates regularly with articles and resources on identifying and managing your stress.

The University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Resource Center provides a wide variety of resources for research and information on positive psychology.

Shine is a texting service that provides free daily motivational text messages. Shine is also available for Facebook Messenger and iPhone as an app.

WHAT IS RESILIENCY?

Resiliency is the ability to adapt and thrive in the face of adversity and stress. It allows us to “bounce back” from difficult circumstances.

RESILIENCY AT BJC

We’ve organized our resiliency tools around a five petal, or segment, model:

Each month we feature a different petal to highlight resources that grow your resiliency. Click the links at the top of the page to see additional tools and resources for these topics.

BJC Institute for Learning and Development Classes

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Participants are provided with an overview of emotional and social intelligence as well as techniques for improvement.

Click here to view available class times.

RESILIENCY

This course focuses on five core components of resiliency: meaning, self-care, relationships, self-awareness, and optimism. Participants will learn skills and techniques for building and strengthening resiliency.

Click here to view available class times.

RESILIENCY CHAMPION TRAINING

Training for employees to become advocates for positive personal and cultural change at all levels of the organization. Open to all employees willing to be resiliency champions for their department. Approval from manager required.

Click here to view available class times.

Click here to access the Resiliency Champion Online training.

THIS MONTH'S FEATURE:

Self-Care

Self-care describes the actions you take to care for your physical, emotional, and spiritual health.

Articles

Five Science-Backed Strategies to Build Resilience

Videos