How might we prevent burnouts?

Burnouts are the most common reason for sick-leave in Sweden and is affecting 77000 every year.There are countless ways of dealing with stress, all with different focus, benefits and setbacks.According to doctor and researcher Anders Hansen, creating lifestyle changes is the numberone way of preventing a burnout. This methodology has been a reoccurring approach, shared by many through my research, to change the over all lifestyle in a long term perspective, rather than introducing short term solutions. What I had concluded during my research is that a good way of achieving lifestyle changes isthrough reflection. A hypothesis that was later confirmed by industry professionals working with atherapy form named acceptance commitment therapy, ACT in short. They concluded that peoplehaving suffered a traumatic event often come to clarity, as they then reflect over what’s important in life in a long term perspective and that the purpose they tried to achieve was to offer this reflection in a preventive manner. The core principle of ACT is to find out what an individual values, and take actual concrete step towards those values. This therapy form has documented effect and established tools for reflecting.The setbacks with these tools today is that they operate in closed environments by industry professionals as well as in literature, since they require a lot of guidance and explanation. The goal of this project has been to take these tool and tailor them to a preventive space where people can make use of them before they have to seek professional care. I had identified that a hight risk user group are newly employed and engaged co-workers. This usergroup has little knowledge about the expectorations in their new line of occupation and has an elevated risk of experiencing high levels of stress and in some cases burnouts. As a mean to address stress at workplaces I have developed a system called bloom. It’s a system that works on the same principle as fire management training for corporations and aims to create an introduction to stress, practice preventive tools for handling stress as well as an action plan for what to do in case stress gets overwhelming. The bloom system contains two products for managing stress that exists as both physical as well as in an app format. The products are based around ACT thinking and aims to aid changes of lifestyle through the reflection element called weighted questions. Many companies has outsourced agreements with corporate wellness companies but insteadof contacting these companies when stress has already become a problem, the bloom system aims to work with stress management early and in a preventive way and gives the co-workers the powere of evidance based tools that they can use themself