3rd Annual Scientific Conference (ASC) Leadership Workshop: Balancing Life and Work.

Lucy MacDonald, a Canadian Certified Counsellor, was the guest speaker at this year's Highly Qualified Personnel Association's (HQPA's) leadership workshop at the Annual Scientific Conference. Her presentation, titled 'Your Work, Your Life: It's a balancing act', was chosen after the HQPA read suggestions from HQP as to what information would be of use to them.

Participants in the workshop were led by Lucy through exercises and games that indicated potential life stresses and different methods of coping. She discussed how everyone is different in their priorities and how they best deal with stress, and that we all really need to ask ourselves, "what is important to me? What kind of life to I want?"

Lucy left HQP with many wise words such as 'relaxing is cheaper than therapy.'

For a detailed write-up of the workshop, please see the summer 2007 issue of the Insider.