The Recovery Shift™
Applied Regulation Skills for Healthcare & Frontline Professionals
Practical skills for the moments stress is actually happening.
The Recovery Shift™ is a practical, skills-based workshop that equips healthcare and frontline professionals with brief, repeatable strategies to regulate stress, reset focus, and support recovery within the realities of the workday.
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Resilience Matters. So Does Recovery.
Healthcare and frontline professionals are routinely asked to remain focused, responsive, and emotionally steady while navigating demanding workloads, high-stakes interactions, and repeated stress throughout the workday.
In these environments, burnout is often framed as a resilience issue when, in fact, it is often a recovery issue. When the nervous system is repeatedly activated without sufficient opportunities to downshift and recover, even highly capable and committed professionals can become depleted over time.
The Recovery Shift™ bridges this gap.
Recovery Skills Designed for the Real Workday
The Recovery Shift™ provides practical, evidence-informed education and experiential skills practice designed specifically for demanding work environments.
Rather than adding another task to an already full workday, participants explore brief regulation strategies that can be incorporated into moments that already exist—between interactions, following stressful situations, during periods of overwhelm, and while transitioning out of work.
No Special Equipment
Designed for real-world environments
60–90 Seconds
Brief, practical strategies
Immediately Applicable
Skills participants can begin using the same day
In demanding work environments, stressors are often unavoidable. The Recovery Shift™ focuses on giving professionals practical skills to regulate, reset, and recover when those moments arise.
What Participants Gain
Understand Stress & Recovery
Better understand the relationship between stress, nervous system activation, regulation, and recovery.
Reset & Refocus
Explore breath, attention, sensory awareness, and other evidence-informed approaches to support regulation and focus.
Recognize Stress Signals
Increase awareness of personal signs of stress activation and dysregulation.
Build Recovery Habits
Identify realistic opportunities to integrate small, repeatable recovery practices into the workday, as well as outside of work hours.
Regulate in Real Time
Practice accessible, brief strategies during demanding moments without requiring dedicated space or lengthy practice.
Strengthen Connection
Explore the importance of connection and peer support and how it can contribute to individual and workplace well-being.
The Recovery Shift™ also explores how the six pillars of Lifestyle Medicine- nutrition, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, positive social connection, and avoidance of risky substances- can support nervous system regulation and recovery, and are provided with small, realistic micro-habits that can be integrated into existing routines, helping turn workshop learning into sustainable practices that support regulation, recovery, and overall well-being.
Participants leave with skills they've experienced and practiced-
not information alone.
Designed for the Moments That Matter
The strategies introduced in The Recovery Shift™ are intentionally brief and adaptable, allowing participants to explore how regulation and recovery can fit within the natural rhythm of their workday.
BETWEEN
Patients, clients, customers, calls, meetings, or demanding tasks
DURING
Moments of mounting stress or overwhelm
BEFORE, DURING OR AFTER
Challenging interactions or high-pressure situations
FOLLOWING
Particularly demanding events or periods of sustained stress
AT THE END OF THE WORKDAY OR SHIFT
To support the transition from professional responsibilities to personal life
The Recovery Shift™ is designed for professionals working in environments where sustained attention, interpersonal demands, responsibility, and repeated stress are part of the job.
Healthcare Organizations & Hospitals
Medical & Dental Practices
EMS, Fire & First Responders
Law Enforcement & Public Safety
Industrial & Safety-Sensitive Workplaces
Transportation & Marine Operations
Hospitality & Customer-Facing Teams
Small Businesses
Community & Service Organizations
Other Frontline Workforces
Don't see your industry listed?
The Recovery Shift™ can be adapted to the unique demands of different workplace environments.
Who Is The Recovery Shift™ For?
More Than
Just a Presentation
The Recovery Shift™ combines relevant education with guided experiential practice and practical application, giving participants an opportunity to experience the skills rather than simply learn about them.
Organizations receive professionally facilitated programming along with participant resources designed to reinforce workshop learning and encourage continued practice.
LEARN
Accessible education connecting stress, regulation, and recovery to the realities of demanding work environments.
EXPERIENCE
Professionally guided practice of brief regulation strategies during the workshop.
APPLY
Practical support for identifying when and how recovery skills can realistically fit into the workday.
Participants also receive take-home resources and access to additional guided audio support following the workshop.
Flexible Options for Your Organization
Every workplace is different. The Recovery Shift™ can be delivered in a format that supports your workforce, scheduling needs, and organizational goals.
ONE-TIME WORKSHOP
A focused introduction to learn, experience and apply practical regulation and recovery skills for your team.
RECURRING PROGRAMMING
Ongoing opportunities to reinforce skills, encourage continued practice, and expand workplace recovery education over time.
CUSTOMIZED PROGRAMMING
Programming tailored to your workforce, workplace demands, scheduling considerations, and organizational wellness goals.
In-person and virtual programming options available
Experience That Informs the Work
Viva Lachance, RN, BSC, NBC-HWC, NC-BC, LMC, CPT
Founder | AquaGenesis Wellness PLLC
Viva is a Registered Nurse, National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach, and Board Certified Integrative Nurse Coach professional with additional training across Lifestyle Medicine, breathwork, health behavior change, fitness, and mind-body practices.
As an RN, Viva brings firsthand understanding of the demands common to healthcare and frontline work environments and the challenges professionals face in managing stress, maintaining focus, and finding opportunities for recovery throughout the workday and beyond.
Through AquaGenesis Wellness, Viva developed The Recovery Shift™ with a focus on translating evidence informed health and regulation concepts into practical strategies for use in demanding work environments and everyday life.