11:00am-11:30am

Welcome

Join OLC and Alchemy leadership as they open the event. In this session, they’ll review the goals of this Foundry Day event and the importance of centering discussions around solutions for addressing burnout.

11:30am-12:30pm

Defining and Understanding the Complex Nature and Landscape of Burnout 

What is burnout? Although on the surface this seems like a simple question, burnout is multi-faceted and has multiple nuanced layers. We’ll address the complicated and intersecting variables and factors at the core of burnout through storytelling by leading experts. We will also invite the audience to help us better define burnout.

12:30pm-12:45pm

Break

12:45pm-1:45pm

Anchoring Our Change Efforts in Research

Alchemy will provide a review of recent research related to faculty burnout. The aim of this session is to provide faculty and leadership with relevant information and research so that they are better positioned to make data-informed decisions. This research will help us anchor our collaborative work to meet the culminating goal of this event: to gather the perspectives, experiences, and needs of our community to collectively move into action.

1:45pm-2:00pm

Break

2:00pm-3:00pm

Disentangling Core Challenges and Factors Involved with Burnout

This session will begin with a thought-provoking lightning talk from a community expert. We will then dedicate 40 minutes in groups collaborating around the lesser discussed aspects of burnout. Our goal in this session is to develop a more comprehensive approach to designing solutions for a more sustainable and healthier future.

3:00pm-3:15pm

Break

3:15pm-4:15pm

Spotlighting Current Institutional Approach to Addressing Burnout

How is your institution addressing burnout? We will use this time to amplify the work, strategies, and resources currently being leveraged to provide diverse models for supporting today’s workforce and implementing institutional change work around burnout. We invite you to share your own use-cases and experiences. Event facilitators will also share successful strategies.

4:15pm-4:30pm

Day 1 Close

This session will feature a synthesis of lessons learned from Day 1 and a review of the goals and outcomes for Day 2.

4:30pm-5:00pm

Game Night and Community Building

One strategy for mitigating burnout is to have fun and build community. This session will not only model this but also take the time to engage in this type of activity ourselves.

11:00am-11:15am

Welcome

Whether you’re joining us for a second day or the first time, we’ll begin Day 2 with a brief review of our learning from Day 1 and the goals of the event.

11:15am-12:00pm

Storytelling As a Lens for Addressing Burnout

During Day 2, we’re intentionally making space for collaborative ideation around specific solutions related to burnout. That said, we recognize the importance of launching into this ideation through a human-centered lens. As such, in this session, we’ll make space for the multitude of voices and perspectives around burnout. We seek particularly to gather and curate stories related to both your own experiences of burnout and your experiences managing the burnout of others. This session will serve as an important anchor point, reminding us that burnout is a very real, very personal, and very resonant collective challenge facing us today.

12:00pm-12:15pm

Break

12:15pm-1:45pm

Ideating the Future: Designing an Action-Oriented Framework for Addressing Burnout

How do we break the cycle of increased workload and expectations that lead to burnout? Burnout is a systemic issue that has impact both locally and globally, at the individual and institutional level, and which will continue to persevere unless we commit to concerted change efforts. In this session, we will spend time in small working groups to develop a comprehensive list of strategies for addressing burnout. More specifically, however, we aim to identify strategies that help us genuinely move towards cultures that minimize burnout.

1:45pm-2:15pm

Day 2 Close

As we close our the event, we will discuss anticipated next steps, including an invitation to continue our collaborative work in synthesizing the information, stories, research, ideas, and strategies shared throughout the event into an action-oriented asset designed to support leaders, faculty, and institutions alike in mitigating burnout.