Course Information

 

 

Target Audience:

Psychologists, Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists, Creative Arts Therapists, Chemical Dependency Counselors, Nurses

 

Course Objectives

1. Utilize Insight meditation and reflection as a self-care and nurturing process and for self-care in working with clients
2. Summarize the process of Insight meditation and reflection, in addition to supervision and consultation, to become more self-aware of boundary crossing and dual relationships
3. Prescribe techniques to enhance focus and attention on subtle ethical challenges
4. Specify how to increase awareness of one’s own needs as a person and professionally using meditation, group discussion, and talks by teachers, so as to approach such needs in an ethical manner.

 

Agenda

Times
10-11:30am Introduction of dilemmas (boundary and ethical); Meditation instructions for developing an Ethical Compass; Experiential - Meditation, reflection process, and journaling
11:30-12:15pm       Small group exploration
12:15-1:15pm Lunch
1:15-2:00pm Nature of therapeutic relationship - therapist’s needs, the power dynamic; Self-care as a tool for ethical development
2:00-3:00pm Experiential: Meditation, reflection process, and journaling
3:00-3:30pm Dyads
3:30-4:00pm Buddhist ethical perspectives: Sati, Precepts, Teaching of Conditionality; Skillful intentions: gentleness, choice, interest, thought, speech, action
4:00-5:00pm Review ethical issues brought out in the groups; Supervision, consultation, self-awareness; Mutual transformative repair and healing; Closing