Supporting Wellbeing in 2024: KonTerra’s Top 8 Resources for High-Stress Roles

As 2024 draws to a close, we want to celebrate the incredible resilience of humanitarian workers, first responders, and others in high-stress roles. This year, your feedback inspired us to create and share some of our most impactful resource yet, designed to help navigate the complexities of maintaining wellbeing in particularly demanding environments.

🌟Most Popular Online Resource🌟

Helping Children Cope With Traumatic Events and Conflict: This resource page on the website offers links to trusted guidance for parents, caregivers, and professionals supporting children affected by war, violence, and other traumatic events. It provides practical tools to help children process their experiences, manage emotional reactions, and maintain wellbeing in the face of adversity.

🌟 Most Popular Written Resources (for download and share)🌟

This year, our most popular written resources have focused on providing practical tools, evidence-based insights, and strategies to help navigate significant challenges. Here are the seven resources that resonated most with our global community in 2024 (click on each title to view and download the PDF for free):

1️⃣ Coping With an Insecure Environment: This guide offers actionable strategies individuals can use to care for themselves, for children, and for their staff in insecure environments and ongoing crisis situations. It has been our most downloaded resource of the year.

2️⃣ Tips for Getting Better Sleep in Insecure and High-Stress Environments: Quality sleep can feel out of reach when living or working in challenging contexts. This resource provides research-backed, practical tips to improve sleep—helping individuals recharge and strengthen their resilience over time in high-stress settings.

3️⃣ Supporting Staff in Isolated and Hazardous Environments:This resource offers actionable guidance for managers and team leaders on how to effectively support staff working in remote, hazardous, or restricted locations, including areas of armed conflict and situations when communications and travel routes are cut off.

4️⃣ Understanding Mental Health and Common Mental Health Disorders: This resource raised awareness about mental health, providing clear explanations of common disorders and tips for seeking support when it’s needed most.

5️⃣ Common Stress Reactions and Effective Self-Care: When stress levels rise, our body, thoughts, feelings, choices, spirituality, and relationships can all be impacted. This resource explains what happens in our bodies during stress, highlights common stress reactions, and outlines effective coping and self-care strategies.

6️⃣ Tolerating Uncertainty and Managing Anxiety When Political Events Feel Threatening: Political instability and uncertainty can take a toll on mental health. This guide offers strategies to manage anxiety and build emotional resilience during turbulent times.

7️⃣ Tips for Coping With Grief After Losing Loved Ones: Grief is a deeply personal process, especially when working far from family and support systems. This resource offered compassionate, practical advice for navigating loss and honoring loved ones.

Looking Ahead to 2025

As we plan for the year ahead, we’d love to hear from you:

• What topics are most pressing for you and your teams?
• What additional tools or resources would help you thrive in your work and personal life?

📥 Share your thoughts by emailing info@konterragroup.net. Together, we can continue building pathways to resilience, wellbeing, and support in 2025.