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1 - A Pandemic and Mindfulness; 2 - Mindfulness and the Art of Letting Go (NEAR BOTTOM OF PAGE)
So, take your time, look around, and learn about what each of them have to offer. A Pandemic and Mindfulness is currently a PRE-RECORDED WEBINAR ONLY at this time.
This activity has been submitted to the Ohio Nurses Association for approval to award contact hours. The Ohio Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. (OBN-001-91)
A Pandemic and Mindfulness Workshop Summary / Outline
This workshop offers professionals new and uniquely powerful content to assist clients with unpacking the emotions and trauma of a pandemic experience. This will provide the practitioner with new resources, perspectives, and skills (many concrete takeaways) to help address what has been called the next pandemic, “the mental health pandemic.”
We will explore the impact of living in a new reality – a pandemic experience. This new reality is that the threat of a virus can be present almost any time, any place, anywhere. As a result, the individual (be it client, patient, or practitioner) is subject to contracting it, leaving their safety and well-being at risk.
Subsequently, there are a plethora of challenges over a wide spectrum of society that impacts most any individual on a mental and emotional level, many of whom may or may not be conscious of it at any given moment.
NOTE: There will be several experiential exercises throughout the presentation to assist with integrating the content.
This presentation includes an extensive digital manual - all presentation content, practitioner manual, and client handouts.
NOTE: There will be a review of research studies, published research articles, and articles from nationally recognized nonprofit organizations focusing on national health issues to help us explore the pandemic impact on individuals in the following areas:
· Being in quarantine – isolation and boredom
· Racial and ethnic injustice
· The impact on education: parent-teacher-student-school social worker experience
· The challenges to frontline workers
· The impact of a friend or family member contracting the virus
· The feelings/emotions that arise when simply leaving the home
· Employment
· Grief
In addition, there will be an exploration of the mental/emotional challenges connected to the above topics.
1. Using the pandemic as a springboard, this unique content will assist the practitioner with uncovering and identifying the client’s deeper therapeutic issues. We will explore:
· A detailed look at the use of Defense Mechanisms that are being used to an individual’s detriment. While these same defense mechanisms have a definite short term benefit, they also contribute to having long term adverse effects.
· A “Simplified Approach to Therapeutic Issues” will be introduced to assist the clinician in helping the client move through pandemic issues.
· A “Composite Picture of Pain” will include “The Four Primary Therapeutic Issues” clients face.
· In addition, a “Diagram/Chart of Painful Emotions” will be utilized to provide the client with a better visual understanding of their “buried” emotional content.
2. Included throughout the presentation is an examination of how the individual is being “triggered” mentally and emotionally by the presence of a virus or by the pandemic experience itself. This will include:
· How these triggers correlate to an individual’s past childhood pain and/or trauma.
· Review of the CDC’s six guiding principles of trauma informed care in relation to these triggers.
3. This presentation will integrate basic mindfulness, as well as unique mindfulness skills to assist in addressing pandemic issues. This will include:
· Learning to be the Observer of mental and emotional content
. This enables the client to acknowledge negative content while not taking it personally and becoming stuck in it.
· Introduce concrete skills to address intense emotional content
· Introduce and guide participants in various types of breathing techniques
· Skills to assist in addressing and alleviating some of the mental and emotional impact related to a pandemic.
· Expose habits of the mind that don’t support us.
· Discussing the concepts of “commitment” and “practice” as means to empower and assist clients in establishing a firm foundation of practicing mindfulness.
4. Exploration of the impact of secondary trauma on clinicians and the mental and emotional byproducts of this, along with suggestions for self-care.
5. Investigate more thoroughly the “core” underlying issues are in relation to the stress of pandemic issues and go beyond the symptoms.
6. Pandemic fatigue and its source will be examined; as well as, investigate and address mental and emotional content underlying the fatigue itself.
· The investigation will include unique perspectives and approaches on how to deal with pandemic fatigue.
PLEASE NOTE: Full disclosure: The examination of this content will involve looking more deeply into the deeper issues of a pandemic on a mental and emotional level, as well the its’ aftereffects. Therefore, the content being presented has the potential to trigger an individual’s history of trauma. The participant should consider the potential challenges or risks involved in this type of content BEFORE registering for this workshop. Any questions, contact David Fiala - 440-708-8028.
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If you have further questions, feel free to contact David at mindyourego@gmail.com
A Pandemic and Mindfulness: Helping Clients Unpack the Emotions and Trauma of a Pandemic
This program is approved by the State of Ohio - Florida - Utah - Kansas - for Counselor, Social Worker & Marriage and Family Therapist Board for Counselors, Social Workers and Marriage & Family Therapists for 6 CE’s
Workshop Summary
This unique workshop is for individuals who are already trained in mindfulness or for those who are new to it. Instruct your clients with unique practices and perspectives of mindfulness.
Deepen and expand your current understanding of mindfulness and Present Moment Awareness with concepts and approaches not typically taught. Using these unique mindfulness-based approaches, instruct your clients on how to implement various life-changing exercises to address the symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression.
Interventions you can use immediately in your practice.
Externally-based exercises include: breathing techniques, self-compassion, and positive self-talk, relaxation exercises, simple eye exercises, self-forgiveness, Heartfelt Invocations (similar to affirmations, but more effective) and a detailed outline/program for self-care suggestions. For example: you will be able to identify specific negative mental and emotional habits (not typically taught) involving resistance that the client may be using to exacerbate their symptoms of stress, anxiety, or depression.
Internally-based exercises include: how to release resistance in the body which exacerbates one’s stress, anxiety, and depression; as a therapist, learning to focus within Present Moment Awareness to enhancing your ability to be totally present to your client; using Focus as a tool, and enhancing one’s ability to be the Observer in challenging situations.
This program is designed to provide you with the necessary theory, practical demonstrations and experiential exercises to assist you in integrating the material for client instruction. Also, the workshop manual provides detailed descriptions for most of the content and exercises being taught, minimizing the need to take notes and maximize your learning time.
If you have further questions, feel free to contact David at mindyourego@gmail.com
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