Healing the Healer: Enhancing Clinician Efficacy and Self-Care
Helping professionals are born with the gift of assisting others in their healing journey. In our desire to “do it right,” we often lose sight of the most important element-ourselves. Yet, our efficacy as professionals is really contingent upon the extent to which we take care of ourselves personally. In this two day training, participants will have the opportunity to didactically and creatively explore their own growth journey as professionals. In safe, playful, and fun ways, we will incorporate meditation, art modalities, movement, writing exercises, breath-work, and group and dyadic work into the training, enabling clinicians to intellectually and creatively process and grow from their insights.
The first day of the training is about the journey to becoming a therapist and its inherent challenges. We will explore how to give ourselves permission to non-judgmentally and compassionately re-evaluate where we are in our work and how we got there.
On the second day, we will focus on moving forward; creating a new-found sense of hope about our work, and re-committing to enhanced self-care. We will learn how to identify and implement professional and personal goals that resonate with our most authentic selves. This training will great benefit clinicians who sometimes feel stuck, bored, overwhelmed, tired of or triggered by the work. It will re-invigorate a sense of competence, strengthen boundaries, and re-connect participants to a level of self-awareness and self-care that can enhance all arenas of life. All of the creative modalities and processing strategies can also be used by clinicians in their work with clients.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the ways in which we help others versus helping ourselves and the arenas where self-care gets diminished.
- Distinguish between the joys and challenges of clinical work and the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral impact of both.
- Identify at least three ways that helping professionals inadvertently sabotage their efficacy, and the physiological toll that it takes.
- Describe and implement at least three ways to enhance self-awareness and self-care, including the incorporation of a “future self” and a re-committment exercise designed to cognitively and behaviorally promote better boundaries and professional competence.
- Incorporate at least five creative strategies that clinicians can use with clients to address and promote increased self-care.
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