Lunch & Learn with Dr. Brenda Mack – “Filling Your Cup”

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Come join us at The Hangar for a fun and unique Lunch & Learn! Our topics will be Addressing Stress (Quiz), Self Reflection, and Building Your Resiliency.

Limited Spots Available – register online here or call now to reserve your spot at 218-732-4111

Lunch will be provided by Angelic Enterprises Coffee Shop & Bakery and is included in the cost. You will have the choice of Chicken Salad, Ham, or Turkey served on homemade buns, with chips and a brownie. Lettuce, cheese, and miracle whip served on the side.
 

About Brenda:
Brenda Mack, DSW, MSW, LICSW, is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Field
Education in the Social Work Department at Bemidji State University (BSU).
She has Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in Social Work from the University of North Dakota
and a Doctorate in Social Work from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. She
is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker through the Minnesota Board of Social
Work.
 
Brenda’s scholarly work focuses on helping those in education, health, and human
services address stress, burnout, and wellness through relational and individualized
resiliency-building strategies. She emphasizes the importance of organizational and
managerial approaches to support the well-being of those in the workforce. She
conducted a research study in the summer of 2019 with social workers’ supervisors
about these topics and wrote an article discussing her findings, which was published in
the March 2022 edition of the National Association of Social Work’s Research journal.
Brenda developed the Resiliency-Focused Supervision Model © (RFSM) for health and
human services supervisors and wrote an article describing the framework that was
published the fall 2020 issue of the Advances in Social Work journal. Brenda was
selected as a 2021 National Rural Health Association (NRHA) Fellow and in 2022
serves on the NRHA Governance Affairs Committee as a behavioral health expert. She
has been heavily involved with the Cultivating Resiliency Collaboration for Women in
Agriculture, where she addresses the topics of stress, wellness, and resiliency through
webinars and monthly virtual coffee chats. In November 2017, Brenda received the
outstanding service award from the Minnesota Association of Children’s Mental Health
and in August 2018 Minnesota Monthly magazine identified her as an Innovative
Educator. She loves teaching and leading in higher education, both on-campus and
online.
 
Brenda was born and raised in a farming family in Northwestern Minnesota and is
married to a fourth-generation crop farmer. She splits her time between Crookston, MN
and Potato Lake, MN and enjoys being with family, lake life, kayaking, loon-watching,
pickleball, reading, writing, presenting, and traveling.