CEU Training
Date: Friday, October 01, 2010
Location: MFS Calumet Center, 235 East 103rd Street, Chicago IL 60628
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Cost: No cost to current or former Metropolitan staff, $10.00 each for others
Compassion Fatigue
Replenishing the caregiver to care for others: An energy management survival kit
The horrors of abuse, a chorus of human suffering, the amazement of the enduring human spirit. This is the daily reality for compassionate clinicians dedicated to healing and hope. But hour after hour and day after day, after hearing about trauma, violence, and abuse, empathic therapists can feel the same symptoms, becoming haunted by memories, losing sleep, abusing substances and suffering exhaustion and depression. Therapists can begin to feel used-up and burned-out, suddenly finding that their own life is suffering.
While the symptoms are unrelated to a clinician's own traumatic experience, it is the recurrence of experiencing others that brings on Compassion Fatigue. But you don't have to pay such a steep toll for healing and sacrifice your own health and wellbeing. This workshop will renew you with valuable tools to identify the warning signs, prevent symptom on-sets, and create solutions and behaviors on a personal and professional level that will replenish your spirit and keep you on track as a healthy and vital human being. You will learn breathing and imaging, how to take a personal inventory, and how to incorporate your personal health values into everyday rituals. The goals of this workshop are to revive, refresh and renew your health while replenishing your spirit and comforting your soul.
Presenter: Kelli Underwood, LCSW is from the Center for Contextual Change. She is a certified Marital and Family Therapist and an adjunct faculty member of the International Institute for Transformative Insight Imagery. Kelli also incorporates EMDR in her work with clients. Kelli is the Director of Child and Family Programs at the Center and supervises student interns. Ms. Underwood facilitates a collaborative journey towards healing and works with children, adolescents, adults and families by creating a safe context from which change can occur. She conducts numerous training for professionals and parents on a variety of topics such as: "Compassion Fatigue," "Creating Safety for GLBT Youth," "Traumatized Children and Adolescents," "Children with Problematic Sexual Behaviors," and "Juveniles and Adults Who Commit Sexual Offenses." In her work, Kelli utilizes the healing benefits of imagery, team building, and the three stage Collaborative Stage Model (CSM).
CEUs will be available at no cost to MFS current or former staff and at $10.00 each to others.
To register, please accept this meeting invitation or contact Alexander Brown at brownal@metrofamily.org or 312-986-4031.
Metropolitan family Services is approved by the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation to sponsor continuing education for social workers (License # 159-000-206), Counselors (license # 197-000005) and LMTF (License # 166-000153)
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