Description

This class will be an educational retreat experience that will provide a quiet space to reflect throughout the day on your values, your self-care, your relationships, and your vision of meaningful clinical practice.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this presentation, participants will:

• Examine changes you may integrate in your daily life and professional practice to live with greater peace of mind and harmony.

• Therapeutic presence.

• Identify your current experience of compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue.

• Examine your level of stress in 6 life dimensions.

• Develop your personal multidimensional resiliency plan.

• Respond rather than react (being grounded, centered and balanced): identify “reactive triggers” and use the mindfulness informed Vision-Decision-Action paradigm to consciously respond based on your core values.

• Become aware of how your healthcare organization may be creating a “compassion fatigue” environment. 

• Learn what healthcare organizations can do to minimize compassion fatigue and encourage and enhance clinician efficacy, wellness, and satisfaction (which can lead to improved clinician health and morale, enhanced clinician retention, increased patient satisfaction).

• Experience a variety of in-class mindfulness exercises.

• Develop a working understanding of how to access and use various mindfulness approaches.

• Practice being present with ourselves and those who consult with us.

• Learn and practice mindfulness skills to share with clients.

Presented by:

Tom Lavin, Psychotherapist, Clinical Faculty, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Science; Recipient, Impact Award, Association for Contextual Behavioral Science 

Kathy Schwerin, Marriage and Family Therapist, Dharma Zephyr Insight Meditation Community Leader

Continuing Education Units:

6 CEUs

Certification Board Information

This training is approved for continuing education units by the boards listed here. Additional specifications can be found below.

NAADAC (The Association for Addiction Professionals)

This course has been approved by CASAT, School of Public Health, University of Nevada, Reno, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for the below # of CEUs. NAADAC Provider #98165. CASAT is responsible for all aspects of its programming.

CEUs: 6

Skills Groups

This course applies to the following Client Skill Groups as defined by NAADAC:

• Counseling Services

NBCC (National Board for Certified Counselors)

CASAT has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6492. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CASAT is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. (Continuing education hours and CEU's are synonymous for purposes of issuing CEU's from CASAT Learning)

Qualifies for NBCC Credit: No

NCB (Nevada Certification Board)

This course is not approved by the Nevada Certification Board.

Presentation materials are not for reproduction or distribution without specific written authorization. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in our courses are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of CASAT.

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