FREE Webinar - Belong to Yourself @ Work: Re-establishing Your Relationship to Employment

Doors to Wellbeing invites you to join our monthly Peer Specialist Webinar Series. This FREE continuing education opportunity brings experts by experience to expand peer specialist skills, knowledge and best practices. The series is the last Tuesday of every month (except December) at 2pm ET/1pm CT/12pm MT/11am PT. 

Peer support work is deeply personal — it draws on lived experience, empathy, and connection. But when the role becomes too closely tied to personal identity, it can lead to over-identification with the job, taking workplace challenges personally, and working past healthy capacity. In this 60-minute interactive session, participants will explore six reflective questions designed to uncover the personal biases and relationship patterns they bring to work. These patterns — often shaped by life experience — can influence how we respond to stress, set boundaries, and navigate professional relationships. Participants will have time to write their own responses, followed by facilitator examples illustrating how these reflections can reveal the roots of burnout and open the door to more sustainable ways of working. When participants see these patterns clearly, they can take steps to conserve their energy, maintain healthy boundaries, and continue finding meaning in their role.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify 2-3 personal biases and relationship patterns that influence work in peer support roles.
• Recognize how these patterns can contribute to over-identification with the job and working past capacity.
• Apply reflective questioning to increase self-awareness and reduce burnout risk.

About the presenter:  Lynnea Brown

Lynnae Brown is a consultant who helps organizations build and strengthen their peer support workforce. She spent over a decade at the Howie The Harp Peer Training Program in New York City, first as Training Coordinator and later as Director, where she helped train hundreds of peers through 400+ hours of classroom learning, internships, and job opportunities. After years of pouring herself into this work, Lynnae hit a wall with severe burnout — an experience that led her to step away, leave NYC, and return home to Western Massachusetts. Now, through her consulting and training, she combines her deep knowledge of peer support with hard-earned lessons about boundaries, sustainability, and belonging to yourself while you work. When she’s not working, Lynnae can usually be found with a book in her lap, a baguette in her hand, and Converse sneakers on her feet. She’s inspired by Rosie the Riveter’s “We Can Do It” spirit — but she’s learned that sometimes the bravest thing you can do is take a break. For more information, please visit her website: www.lynnaebrown.com

This is part of Doors to Wellbeing's Peer Specialist Webinar Series.