Date: 3/27/2019, 9:15 am—4:45 pm
County: Alameda County
Location: eBerkeley
Sponsor: A Better Way, Inc.
Phone: 510-601-0203
Website: http://www.abetterwayinc.net
Because the primary mediator of successful behavioral health outcomes is the quality of the relationship between the client and the provider, the provider’s ability to be present, regulated, and empathetic is of primary importance to the quality of the care provided, and treatment outcomes. This means that the primary tools that providers need in order to be most successful in their work (and to derive the greatest meaning from it), namely presence, empathy, and equilibrium, are things that are likely to be directly challenged by the nature of the relational contact providers are having with clients. Because this combination of particular and cumulative emotional burden is experienced by the provider physiologically as stress, providers require sustainable and on-going restorative practices to give them tools for processing emotional content, maintaining autonomic balance, and restoring wellbeing and resilience. When providers do not have access to these tools, they tend to burn out.
Over the course of 15 years of work in this area, Applied Mindfulness has developed a conceptual framework and restorative practices tailored to assisting helping professional increase their well-being and resilience. In this experiential training, we’ll explore these frameworks and tools together.
**Participants can utilize the skills learning in this course in their work in the following ways:
- Actively engage in building new habits of self-care that aid in managing vicarious trauma.
- Engage in consistent practice of these new habits.