Of Soul & Survival
Healing Our Clients, Healing Ourselves in a Multiculural Context
- Cost:
- $100 (Space Strictly limited)
- Credit:
- 6 Contact hours being requested
- Date:
- December 5th, 2008
- Faculty:
- Kenneth V. Hardy, Ph.D.
As mental health providers in a multicultural context, too many of us find ourselves struggling to survive within the stranglehold of a crazed human services delivery system. Plagued by unfeeling bureaucracies, inter-disciplinary turf-wars, and the dismembering of essential programs, many of us suffer from fatigue, burnout, and an increasing sense of hopelessness. We are faced with a daily struggle of negotiating issues of survival on one hand, and issues of soul on the other. The seemingly irreconcilable tension between these competing needs often results complex challenges and impasses that sabotage the sense of hope and energy that we desperately need to carry on day in and day out in the vital work we do with our clients. This workshop will examine the ways in which issues of soul and survival constrain our work. Attention will be devoted to helping clinicians understand the multiple factors that affect our ability to achieve a sense of meaning, connection, and hope in the midst of an increasingly utilitarian, fragmented environment. Participants will be encouraged to identify and explore their personal struggles with burnout, compassion fatigue, and hopelessness. Special emphasis will be placed upon creating opportunities for regenerating hope, passion, and energy as we strive to balance the forces of soul and survival on our way to becoming healers and advocates for social justice.
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