TRAININGS

(6 Ethics Continuing Education)

Training Description

The role of counseling professionals has become both vital and extremely challenging. We are not only tasked with guiding individuals through mental/emotional struggles but also navigating the collective pulse of our times. This one day workshop is designed to support counseling professionals to foster resilience, self-empowerment, and emotional well-being in times of global uncertainty. Our world is rapidly shifting and uncertainties ripple through every aspect of our lives. Through experiential exercises, facilitated group process, and journaling we will cultivate a space to examine professional detachment and imagine into the possibilities for collective resilience in chaotic times. Holding the impact of pervasive violence, systemic racism, the looming threats of fascism, and climate disruption requires that we actively attend to our own emotions. Regardless of which collective issue resonates most deeply with you—being with others and digesting these experiences in community is a key ingredient for us to nurture resilience and sustain our work.

(6 hours of Continuing Education, 1 ethic)

Training Description

This training is an introduction designed to provide counseling professionals with concepts and experiences that will increase their relational and interpersonal competency of group counseling with adults. A successful group not only depends on the clinical intuition of the leader but on the ability to build therapeutic and relational connections between members. This workshop will address the core tenets of Relational Cultural Theory and differentiate from other group processes. Topics will include group dynamics, stages of group process, connections & disconnections, and strategies for shame resilience. This didactic and experiential training will explore techniques that can help create an engaging group and maximize a group’s potential as an agent of therapeutic change.