A Counselor’s Guide to Meditation and Guided Imagery
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$50.00
$50.00
Monday July 20, 2015
9:00am - 4:30pm
6 contact hours - NCSAPPB approved substance abuse specific (SS) + NBCC approved provider
A Counselor’s Guide to Meditation and Guided Imagery is first, a workshop about caring for and healing the counselor. Another benefit is learning and practicing mediation and guided imagery as a therapeutic self-help skill for clients (both substance abuse specific and general mental health case studies). The need for counselor self-care comes at a time when once again, the mental health system is in transition. Counselors are asked to carry out more duties in the same work hours. Clients are presenting at increasing levels of acuity. Vicarious trauma from empathic listening is daily for the counselor. Everyday life and caring for one’s family is enough without adding work stress. Technology has sped up our lives and made additional demands of our time as well. Each person’s strategy for coping and decompressing will differ. Yet, decompress the body and the brain is foremost or sickness will follow.
At least one common denominator in this daily need for decompression may be meditation and guided imagery to release the cumulative stress and find one’s core of peaceful centeredness. This workshop will begin with the simplest and shortest meditations and guided imagery that you may utilize for yourself and with your clients. As the day progresses, we will learn and practice varying forms of meditation moving to ever-increasing length and depth which will seem effortless as the brain and body connect leading to full relaxation and a peaceful centeredness. We will even incorporate a silent observer-walking meditation after our lunch break!
OBJECTIVES:
Lunch served. We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Linda Harrison, LPCS, CCS, MAC
9:00am - 4:30pm
6 contact hours - NCSAPPB approved substance abuse specific (SS) + NBCC approved provider
A Counselor’s Guide to Meditation and Guided Imagery is first, a workshop about caring for and healing the counselor. Another benefit is learning and practicing mediation and guided imagery as a therapeutic self-help skill for clients (both substance abuse specific and general mental health case studies). The need for counselor self-care comes at a time when once again, the mental health system is in transition. Counselors are asked to carry out more duties in the same work hours. Clients are presenting at increasing levels of acuity. Vicarious trauma from empathic listening is daily for the counselor. Everyday life and caring for one’s family is enough without adding work stress. Technology has sped up our lives and made additional demands of our time as well. Each person’s strategy for coping and decompressing will differ. Yet, decompress the body and the brain is foremost or sickness will follow.
At least one common denominator in this daily need for decompression may be meditation and guided imagery to release the cumulative stress and find one’s core of peaceful centeredness. This workshop will begin with the simplest and shortest meditations and guided imagery that you may utilize for yourself and with your clients. As the day progresses, we will learn and practice varying forms of meditation moving to ever-increasing length and depth which will seem effortless as the brain and body connect leading to full relaxation and a peaceful centeredness. We will even incorporate a silent observer-walking meditation after our lunch break!
OBJECTIVES:
- Participants will learn and appreciate the physiology behind the brain body connection leading to the relaxation response and increased depths of meditation and guided imagery.
- Participants will learn and practice simple forms of meditation and guided imagery that may be utilized with first themselves and then clients.
- Participants will learn and practice increasing complex forms of meditation and guided imagery, leading to a depth and breadth of conscious centeredness that will bring about the opportunity for personal and professional healing.
Lunch served. We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Linda Harrison, LPCS, CCS, MAC