When Helping Others Hurts You: Expressive Arts for Restoration and Resilience (2HR)
When Helping Others Hurts You: Expressive Arts for Restoration and Resilience (2HR)
Clinicians serve as instruments of change for the client populations they support. While clinical work can be rich in reward, there is also the potential for burnout and secondary trauma in the life of a dedicated clinician. This workshop is designed to guide clinicians to a deeper awareness of the ways in which their work results in stress that may not easily be left behind at the office at the end of a tiresome workday. Through the use of expressive arts, participants will explore their own professional stress and connect with tools to support healthy and effective processing of those more difficult clinical moments.
Course Objectives
Objective #1: Explore Sources of Professional Stress
Common stressors impacting clinicians.
Personal stressors unique to individual clinicians.
Objective #2: Establish Foundational Knowledge of Expressive Arts
Person-Centered Expressive Arts Movement.
Benefits of the Expressive Arts modality.
Common Expressive Arts practices.
Objective #3: Define and Apply the “Phased Approach” to Expressive Arts
Distraction.
Grounding.
Distress Tolerance.
Processing.
Reintegration.
Objective #4: Identify Expressive Arts Tools for Ongoing Practice
Mindfulness activities.
Building a personal toolkit.
Books and apps to aid in Expressive Arts work.
Instructor: Katie Wangelin, MSW, LCSW
