Prioritizing Wellbeing: When Staff Matter, They Flourish is designed for BCBAs and supervisors who want to create workplaces where direct care staff consistently experience mattering, not just responsibility. Behavior technicians are the foundation of effective service delivery, yet many experience chronic stress, burnout, and emotional fatigue that can affect both their wellbeing and the quality of care provided to people with IDD. This supervision-focused webinar explores how leaders can intentionally build systems that support a culture of mattering beginning at hiring and onboarding and sustained through training, feedback, and ongoing supervision.

Grounded in positive psychology, strengths-based practice, and the PERMA+ model, participants will learn how to operationally define, measure, and reinforce staff wellbeing within everyday supervisory practices. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of truly knowing your staff by identifying their strengths, values, skill repertoires, and support needs. Participants will also explore how behavior analytic assessment concepts can be applied to supervision by identifying the antecedents, consequences, and contextual variables that influence staff performance, engagement, and burnout. ABA-based strategies including reinforcement systems, performance feedback, antecedent supports, and maintenance planning will be applied to strengthen essential staff repertoires such as resilience, self-management, boundary-setting, values-aligned goal setting, and sustainable work routines.

Participants will leave with practical tools to embed wellbeing and quality of life supports into supervision systems, helping staff flourish professionally and personally while strengthening service quality and long-term sustainability. This session is eligible for BACB Supervision CEUs and aligns with Domain 7: Personnel Supervision and Management.

Learning Objectives

1. Define and operationalize “mattering” and flourishing using behavior analytic terminology and identify components of the PERMA+ model that can be embedded into supervision systems.
2. Analyze supervisory variables using behavior analytic assessment concepts by identifying antecedents, consequences, and contextual factors that influence technician performance, engagement, and burnout.
3. Design reinforcement-based supervision strategies that embed strengths-focused feedback, supportive antecedent practices, and maintenance planning into hiring, onboarding, training, and ongoing supervision to promote technician flourishing and quality care.

About the Presenter

Shari Daisy

Dr. Daisy earned her bachelor’s degree in Elementary and Special Education from the University of Nevada, Reno in 1993. She later completed graduate degrees in Special Education (MEd, Slippery Rock University, 1998), Applied Behavior Analysis (EdS, Simmons College, 2007), and Psychåology with a Behavior Analysis specialization (PhD, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2019). Since 1998, Dr. Daisy has dedicated her career to supporting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities across a wide range of settings and roles. Her experience includes working as a special education teacher, student services coordinator, educational and behavioral consultant, college professor, multi-tiered systems of support regional coordinator, and crisis prevention clinical director. She currently serves as the Clinical Director at Behavior Analysts International. Dr. Daisy is passionate about helping people of all ages and abilities build meaningful, fulfilling lives. She is known for providing compassionate, individualized support and for delivering engaging, practical trainings at both the individual and systems level. Her work integrates applied behavior analysis within the lens of positive psychology, with a strong focus on wellbeing, dignity, and real-world outcomes.