Dale Larson Workshop 1 (Full-day)
Workshop Title
Meeting the Challenge of Caring: An Integrative Person-Centered Approach to Grief Counseling
Purpose/ Objective of Workshop
- Identify significant recent developments and themes in bereavement research and theory
- Identify specific skills and strategies for more effective grief counseling
- List the key features and causes of both compassion fatigue and burnout
- Identify specific strategies for strengthening resilience and preventing compassion fatigue and burnout
- Identify and strengthen experiences of compassion satisfaction in your professional work.
Brief Description
Working with people facing grief, loss, and trauma presents critical challenges: How can we put our empathy and compassion to work without burning out? What are the keys to effective intervention? To address these challenges, this seminar brings together innovations in theory and practice in the areas of burnout and compassion fatigue, grief and grief counseling, and resilience and healing. We explore topics ranging from mirror neurons, grief’s questions, the helper’s pit, and self-concealment, to innovative process-experiential counseling techniques and a model for personal stress management and self-care. Theory and interventions developed by Worden, Stroebe, Shear, Paivio, Greenberg, Gendlin, and Rogers are presented within an integrative Person-Centered Approach to grief counseling. Specific counseling skills and strategies are identified and practiced. Lectures, discussions, and skill-building exercises will bring theory to life as we explore how you can maintain your compassion while courageously assisting others to live with hope in a world in which loss is inescapable.
- The Challenge of Caring
- Rediscovering purpose in the work
- Compassion’s crucible: Empathy, compassion fatigue, burnout and the wounded healer
- The inner world of helping: Emotional involvement as a helper, balanced empathy, personal distress, the Helper’s Pit, interpersonal allergies, unrealistic expectations of self, superheroes as bad role models, and helper secrets
- A Person-Centered Integrative Approach to Grief Counseling
- The healing power of experiencing experience: Getting grief working for clients
- Integrating the loss: Beyond rumination, suppression, and experiential avoidance
- Providing safety, a secure base, and a strong therapeutic alliance
- Practicing person-centered and process-experiential skills: balanced empathy, experiential focusing, the client-frame-of reference response, and empty-chair interventions
- Beyond Burnout: Keeping the Spark Alive
- Great Moments in Helping
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