(NEW) Online Training – Fear and Faith: Cultivating Resilience in a COVID Changed World

March 20 Login to Zoom 8:30am ; Training 8:45am-4:15pm (EDT) $179, 6 CEUs Presenter: Joanne Vizzini, PhD Zoom, MD + Google Map

In this workshop, we will explore the helplessness, fear, and resiliency that clients have experienced during COVID-19. We will discuss the ways in which spirituality and creativity can potentially make a difference in therapy and in clients’ healing journeys. We will also explore how clinicians can continue their own journey with integrity and honesty while holding a sacred space for clients to explore the myriad of emotions and ongoing sequela associated with Covid. 

Participants will learn practical, user-friendly assessment tools to determine levels of fear, faith, spirituality, vulnerability, and resilience. Modalities can be used in-person or with tele-therapy. They include: listening to, singing, or producing music; incorporating Role-play, Storytelling, Games, Puppetry, or parts work;  working with Art;  poetry writing and reading; meditation, breath work, mindfulness, centering prayer, and movement. We will also discuss how to incorporate EMDR, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), IFS, and Trauma Informed Care. Participants will also learn how to shift clients from fear to faith by incorporating a myriad of religious and spiritual belief systems, including 12-step programs and their religious counterparts like Celebrate Recovery. We will also explore how to strengthen clients’ self-compassion and loving-kindness.

The Ferentz Institute, Inc. is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland. CEU approval for all trainings is also granted to Psychologists, LCPC’s and MFT’s and approved by the Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists and the Board of Examiners for Psychologists in Maryland. Reciprocity has also been granted for clinicians in Washington, DC, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Georgia, Massachusetts and Texas.  If your state is not among this list, we encourage you to check with your state licensing board to see if they will grant reciprocity.
The Institute maintains full responsibility for all programming. In order to provide Category 1 CEUs for all of our trainings, the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners requires online workshops to be live, interactive, and experienced in real time. Therefore, none of our trainings are recorded for later viewing.

 

Learning Objectives

  • Identify 3 evidence-based means to integrate spirituality into clinical practice
  • Define 4 creative therapies successfully utilized during COVID times of vulnerability
  • Identify how to apply spirituality and creative therapies to those who are not open to these modalities in their healing process
  • Recognize and define one’s own resilience and helplessness while dealing with secondary stressors as a clinician during COVID
  • Identify at least 3 effective clinical methods that lessen the feeling of helplessness and fear particular to experiences of COVID trauma
  • Describe the impact of hatred on clientele and identify 4 faith-based means of increasing their loving-kindness

Agenda

8:45 – 10:20 am.

  • Identifying evidence -based means to integrate spirituality
  • Separating the meaning of religion versus spirituality
  • Define therapies used with success during COVID

10:20 – 10:30     BREAK

10:30 – 12 noon

  • Define therapies used with success during COVID
  • Exploring the meaning of vulnerability during a world-wide pandemic
  • Define how to apply spirituality to those not interested in using it

12 noon – 1pm    LUNCH

1:00 – 2:00 pm

  • Define how to apply Creative therapies to those not interested in using them
  • Explore the notion that spirituality meant facing death together and the potential of death
  • Values, ethics, and how they interfaced with resilience and faith in the treatment of COVID related stressors

2:00 -2:08 pm    BREAK

2:08 – 3:00 pm

  • Recognize and define one’s own resilience and helplessness while dealing with secondary stressors as a clinician during COVID
  • Identify clinical methods that were of service to you as a clinician during COVID to aid in understanding your counter-transference
  • Identify effective spiritual methods that were of service to you during COVID that informed you about your counter-transference

3:00 – 3:08 pm    BREAK

3:08 pm – 4:15 pm

  • Describe the impact of hatred on clientele during COVID – racial bias and systemic issues that harmed individuals
  • Practice holding space for the both/and in mock interviews about germane COVID related topics
  • Identify the best means of approaching your clientele with the information share at today’s workshop
Hands holding holding the earth, with a mask around it, up to the skies.