MN Brewers Conference 2023 - Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild

The Burden of Burnout - Where to Start to Combat and Prevent It

April 20th, 2023, St. Paul MN

Thank you so much for attending our presentation on burnout at the MN Brewers Conference! Thank you so much to the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild for having us.

Common signs and symptoms of burnout PDF available here.

Further reading and learning:

• Mayo Clinic

• Harvard Business Review

  • When Passion Leads to Burnout

  • Burnout Is About Your Workplace, Not Your People

• New York Times

  • Your Body Knows You’re Burned Out

• Breathing exercises referenced:

  • “I am” breathing exercise. As you inhale and exhale use the mantra “I am” and attach it to your inhales and exhales for as many breaths as you’d like.

    • Inhale - think to yourself “I”

    • Exhale - think to yourself “am”

    • This is excellent for resetting and grounding oneself, and doesn’t encourage you to have to feel any certain way, you can just be present!

  • Timed breathing exercise. Counting your inhales and exhales, and exhaling for a few counts longer than your inhales.

    • Inhale - slowly count to 4

    • Exhale - slowly count to 6

    • Repeat for as long as is helpful to calm yourself

Other resources:

You can take our 2023 Craft Beer Burnout Survey (open until Friday, April 21st at midnight CST) here.

You can download the Preliminary Results Deck for the 2022 Craft Beer Burnout Survey here.

Once our launch campaign is funded, we will be able to offer access to mental health and well-being resources to every person working for a craft brewery whose annual output is <6 million bbls in the United States.

Learn more about what resources will be included once we launch here.

You can also donate to our launch campaign here.