Embracing Heart-Centered Awareness
14 CEUs for Pennsylvania Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors (including 3 hours of Ethics training)
You Matter. Therapists often experience considerable stress, due for example to their large caseloads, the seemingly intractable problems of their clients, and workplace challenges. These stressors have all been compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stress in the helping professions is inevitable, even under the best of circumstances, but emotional burnout is not. If a therapist becomes “burned out,” he or she will be impaired in their ability to help their clients.
Through this four-session online workshop, you will acquire practical tools for sustaining and re-energizing your body, mind, and spirit while working under stressful circumstances. Learn to skillfully navigate your challenges from the vast research on how to thrive.
Schedule
Each session is offered twice and covers a different aspect of therapist self-care.
Session 1: Attest to the Ability to Thrive
Sat., Jan. 17, 2020
Learn multiple reasons why therapists—and, in fact, all individuals—should regularly engage in self-care
Demonstrate how humans have the ability to change their lives in fundamental ways
Describe the overriding importance of cultivating reality-based optimism
Sessions 2: Identify Research-Based Steps for Thriving
Fri., Oct. 16, 2020 or Sun., Jan. 17, 2021
List at least 8 ways to adopt a healthy lifestyle
Describe the overriding importance of maintaining nurturing social connections
Utilize character strengths to solve pressing personal problems
Session 3: Appreciate the Power to be Centered in Oneself
Fri., Oct. 23, 2020 or Sat., Feb. 6, 2021
Recognize the immense value of mindfulness in all aspects of life
Utilize “flow,” a highly focused state that fosters joy and productivity
Appreciate why therapists are ethically obligated to be compassionately detached toward their clients
Session 4: Embracing Heart-Centered Awareness
Fri., Oct. 30, 2020 or Sun., Feb. 7, 2021
Articulate why it’s ethically as well as pragmatically advisable to be open to a spiritual perspective
Explain the enormous advantages of gratitude for one’s life and experiences
Demonstrate thriving as a personal reality
Sessions are 4.5 hours and include a 1 hour break.
Itinerary for sessions in October, 2020:
Part I: 9:00 am— 11:00 am
Break: 11:00 am — 12:00 pm
Part II: 12:00 pm — 1:30 pm
Itinerary for sessions in January & February, 2021:
Part I: 10:00 am — 12:00 pm
Break: 12:00 pm — 1:00 pm
Part II: 1:00 pm — 2:30 pm
Attendance at all 4 sessions is required to receive Continuing Education Credits. They do not need to be taken sequentially; mix and match to suit your schedule.
Payment
Sessions are $90 individually, or $350 for all four sessions together. To pay for each session separately, please register through our Eventbrite listings. To pay for all four sessions at once, click here.
Refund Policy:
If you register for an individual workshop ($90), you may receive a full refund at any time until the start of the program. If, on the other hand, you register for all four sessions in advance, for each session that is missed, a prorated refund will be issued. (For example, if you attend only 3 of the 4 sessions, a 25% refund will be made, or if you attend only 1 of the 4 sessions, a 75% refund will be made.) PLEASE NOTE: Attendance at all 4 sessions is required to receive continuing education credit.
Continuing Education:
This 4-session workshop has been approved for 14 CREDIT HOURS, WHICH INCLUDES 3 HOURS OF ETHICS TRAINING by the Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors – Board Approval # SWIPR200206. Attendance at all 4 sessions of this workshop is required to receive this credit.
Teachers
Marlene Keesler, MS is the Executive Director of Inner Source Healing, a minister, and a Holy Fire III Online Reiki Master and teacher. She has been inspiring people on a healing path of love and happiness for over 30 years. She received her master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Chicago and has worked in the social service and mental health fields for several decades. She is a Developmental Specialist and guides individuals and groups through the tasks and challenges of the life cycle. She founded Inner Source Healing with her husband, David Harman, in 2003 to create an environment that supports growth through group work using traditions and methods from a diverse pool of wisdom. Her work with the Way of Love and in her personal practice helps individuals achieve deep transformational living in service, mindfulness, and gratitude. She is an Adjunct Professor at Montgomery County College, where she has been teaching Human Services classes online for over 15 years. In addition, she is certified to teach Reiki classes online.
David Harman, PhD seeks to foster a deeper connection to one’s Higher Power in himself and in others. He earned his doctorate in Behavioral Sciences from the University of Chicago, and is a licensed Psychologist who has worked in education and mental health for over 30 years. He has worked with people across almost the entire life span, from evaluating children and teens to providing counseling to adults and the elderly. For over a decade, he served as an Instructor in Psychopharmacology at Immaculata University’s Doctoral Psychology Program. He is a graduate of the 4-year Foundations Course of the Full Spectrum School of Healing & Self Transformation. He is the Senior Psychologist at Malvern Community Health Services (formerly called "Progressions"). In addition, since 2003, he has helped to found and guide Inner Source Healing, a not-for-profit forum dedicated to fostering personal growth and fulfillment.