Room 307, Thursday, July 10th, from 2:00 – 5.00 pm
In this highly interactive workshop, participants will receive tools and frameworks to help them tailor, modify, disseminate, and potentially scale evidence-based well-being programs in diverse workplace contexts. The presenter has used this “Integral Prevention Framework” for the past 20 years through training over 1,000 instructors of several programs on stress management, self-care, resilience, and substance misuse prevention. The four-quadrant framework focuses on two dynamic tensions. The first is between (a) capacity building (engaging stakeholders, increasing organizational readiness, strategizing for scalability) to support program uptake and (b) attention to intervention delivery (scheduling, train-the-trainer, instructor competency, classroom management). The second is between (a) adherence to program fidelity (content consistency and use-as-intended) and (b) adaptation and innovation (as required by local needs and constraints). The workshop leader has used this framework to plan, strategize, and implement a variety of dissemination projects.
PART 1: Immersive Case Study
Participants will explore a real-world example through a case study and a brief adapted classroom program. This includes an evaluation of the program’s evolution, scientific background, and research findings, highlighting capacity building, delivery, fidelity, and adaptation.
PART 2: Small Group Application
Participants will work in small groups to apply the framework to their own projects. Using provided worksheets, they will define their goals, challenges, and needs within the framework’s four quadrants, generating ideas and solutions tailored to their contexts.
PART 3: Large Group Review
Small groups will share their findings with the larger group, fostering collaborative learning and next stage planning. Participants will leave with actionable strategies to set goals, tackle challenges, and advance their projects effectively.
Learning Objectives:
By the completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
- Clarify nomenclature, definitions, and distinctions related to this topic (e.g., well-being, prevention, dissemination, research-to-practice, scalability, evidence-based, evidence-informed, adaptation).
- Recognize the stages of moving a well-being program from initial efficacy trials into a more scalable dissemination strategy.
- Practice using a framework for navigating the challenges with dissemination, including capacity building, intervention delivery, adherence to scientific fidelity, and adaptation/innovation.
- Identify research in the field of dissemination of evidence-based programs (including train-the-trainer designs).
- Apply the above knowledge to their programs, designs, and settings.
- Learn one evidence-based resilience program as an example/case study to ground the above knowledge.
Presenter Bio:
Joel Bennett, PhD, is President of Organizational Wellness & Learning Systems (OWLS), a consulting firm specializing in evidence-based wellness and e-learning technologies to promote organizational health and employee well-being. Dr. Bennett first delivered stress management programming in 1985, and OWLS programs have since reached over 250,000 workers across the United States and internationally. This includes the efforts of over 1,000 facilitators and coaches trained in OWLS’ evidence-informed curriculum and consulting in South Africa, Italy, and Brazil. OWLS consulting on Integral Organizational Wellness™, approaches that combine leadership, champion, team, and peer-to-peer strategies, has a list of over 50 clients from public, private, and military organizations.
Dr. Bennett is author of 50 peer-reviewed research articles and chapters and has authored/co-authored nine books, including “Quest for Presence (5 Book Collection)” “Raw Coping Power” “Heart-Centered Leadership“ “Time & Intimacy“, and “Preventing Workplace Substance Abuse” “Well-Being Champions: A Competency-Based Guidebook” “Your Best Self at Work.” In 2022, Dr. Bennett received the 2022 William B. Baun Lifetime Achievement Award for his leadership and service to the professional wellness field from the National Wellness Institute. He also received the Positive Leadership Award from the Positive Leadership Institute for his work providing positive leadership to his organization (OWLS).