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Overwhelm versus Overload
Distinguishes overload — too much to do, a scheduling problem — from overwhelm, which is a state one is in and cannot schedule away. Participants learn to tell which they are in and to work each differently, with time management addressed only as the answer to the first.
Practical
- Time
- 25-30 min
- Group
- 1–∞ · individual
- Settings
- self-guided, in-person
- Materials
- Worksheet in the guide
- Mechanisms
- emotional-processing, cognitive-reframing
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/Step_Up_A_Pocket_Guide_… — Step Up! A Pocket Guide to Social Change for Young Leaders, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Monica Sharma — Radical Transformational Leadership, adapted in UNFPA's Step Up! pocket guide (2021)
In this directory via Step Up! A Pocket Guide to Social Change for Young Leaders
One of two activities in the guide drawn from Monica Sharma's work, whose Radical Transformational Leadership is held here as a source in its own right.
status: checked · added 2026-08-29